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Sunday Morning Pages 03-10
Morning pages is a simple exercise: write two pages about whatever is on your mind without editing. In this format, I'll just write until I fill the text box (scroll the top text out of view) twice.
I'll post whatever I end up writing, including typos.Woke up this morning feeling sluggish and congested. It's probably the donuts and the non-butter ( Read more... ) -
Wanting to get stronger / towards an emotional strength movement
Sometimes I reach a state where I feel I've given up. It's not an ultimate act of giving up on life, but it has a smaller yet similar feeling of being trapped, with nothing to look forward to. No hope, no inspiration. So sense of worth in the past, present, or future. Just muddling through, endlessly. Why strive anymore ( Read more... ) -
a bad relationship with hope, three time frames of not having, rage against the tortoise
It was around half past 5AM here when I started writing this. I felt better then than I did the other day, but now the sleep deficit is hitting me ( Read more... ) -
About - How I plan to use this space [2019 March 05]
I want to come back to this space as a place to write up my thoughts on things. In the past, I've mostly used blogging as an emotional outlet, but I never really made use of its potential as a thinking-place ( Read more... ) -
Path dependency
Last time's outburst was a mixture of thoughts and me trying to provide background for those thoughts. I thought I would develop things further, but as things often are for me, it's hard where the exposition and the development begin and end ( Read more... ) -
Knotted
Chaos. Confusion. Tumult. Commotion. What's the word I'm looking for ( Read more... ) -
In Medias Res 01 Mensis
This weekend marks one month living in Japan ( Read more... ) -
Just as you get good, you graduate
Recently I have been really proud of my load quality under pressure. (Load quality refers to how effective your package walls in the trucks are, in terms of space usage and stability.) Last night, I flipped out on this guy who has terrible load quality and wasn't following any of the loading techniques we had been trained in earlier in the week ( Read more... ) -
Quick report after five weeks of box wall truck purgatory
I've been loading the trucks for nearly a month now. My first week was tough, physically and psychologically. But things got better, especially as I got to know the other truck loaders in our area. We would talk, joke, curse, and commiserate about having to heave thirty pound boxes over our heads, with fifty pound boxes falling off the sides of the ( Read more... ) -
Thought flows
Late last week, they started me loading the trucks. It's a basic thing everyone gets to try out, but they had prioritized keeping me on the top belt, picking off packages. I figure now that things have gotten lighter, they can train me to do more stuff ( Read more... )