Present life isn’t terrible. Yet it has been and continues to be pervaded by a muted discontent. The discontent is caused by a desire to be ten years in the future. A desire to be at a time when I don’t need to worry about supporting myself. When there are no competing obligations. When all my time is devoted to experiencing this world and ( Read more... )

I've been writing a book. The book started a year and a half ago. Since then an adventure story has built up around it. I won't go into it, but it's involved being broke, famous philosophers, a mad scientist, testing friendships, personal failure, dashed hopes, questioning, doubt, personal weakness, self-examination, persistence, self-discovery, ( Read more... )

I'm really proud of myself today. Today I resisted the urge to check the internet till I finished my main To Do list priorities. This is part of a new habit I'm trying to start: using the internet as a reward for achieving priorities. Recently, basically since I got back into blogging, my daily priorities stopped getting done. They didn't get done ( Read more... )