8/8 Ran for the first time in one and a half months, in the rain, although it was only a mild spray. It will be a journey of many weeks to get back to the place where I was.
8/8 Ran for the first time in one and a half months, in the rain, although it was only a mild spray. It will be a journey of many weeks to get back to the place where I was.
8/7 Walking out the door, a fine spray in the air, right on the verge of whether you should call it a heavy fog or actual rain. The weather app’s micrometeorological opinion is that it’s not raining. A few minutes later, getting off the subway in the financial district, the question is also resolved in the negative.
8/6 The same effect as two weeks ago: Now that the VP is picked, we spend the day sharing clips and jokes and memes of the guy whom we’d never heard of before, giggling.
8/5 Received the approval of my voter registration. Funny enough, that’s only a single piece of strong paper, folded and taped together with scotch on the open end, as if to underline that what’s inside is public information.
8/4 These nights in American movies, particularly Westerns, in which crickets are heard, were quite mysterious to me as a child – mysterious on a subconscious level, I couldn’t quite tell what it was that made the scene so otherworldly. I now live in this land where there’s always crickets.
8/3 Spent much of the afternoon reading a book, and made 10% progress with it, a book that J read in one or two nights. There is also no redeeming aspect of my slowness. It is not that I am slow, but instead, or because of this, if have this or that other ability. I am just slow.
8/2 When you share a book of your childhood with our own child, the first skill they will need to master is to skip all the annoying forewords which that book acquired over the years since you read it.
8/1 J and I definitely have a sincerity problem. (This sentence will be understood opposite from the intended meaning.)
7/31 My son asks for details of my workday. I get carried away explaining it to him, ELI10.
7/30 A piece of writing is good, if, having never written anything before, because of this piece, I would start writing. – Funny how I haven’t thought of this formula for so many years.