Category: Life
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Year of Confidence
I started this blog as a soft new year’s resolution. I didn’t formalize that, since we all know the label is useless, but it was poetic in a small and pleasing way. Like any resolution, it wasn’t going to become a big, life-altering thing, but I knew that going in. I just needed a creative…
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Managing Mediocrity
I haven’t written in a while for a couple of reasons. First, my left thumb gets strained from hitting space and gaming too much, so I was getting some rest. Second, I was waiting on the double whammy of the Super Mario Movie and the full reveal of Magic the Gathering’s March of the Machine…
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Idleness
There’s this YouTube channel I watch, the Urban Rescue Ranch. Between the onslaught of unhinged Texan farmer turned memer are moments of stopping to admire the animals he cares for. You may see capybaras, wallabies, or a kangaroo lying around in the distance, or you may check in on a hay-filled prairie dog habitat. Either…
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Stress and Social Dilemmas
Today was a first: I left work early on the basis of mental health. The shift was a medley of things that get to me. There were busy locations, inaccessible objectives, cramped hallway navigation, degenerate amounts of ordered product, and aggravating customers. By the middle afternoon, I had finished what I was told to do,…
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Work Mornings
I’m not quite a morning person. I can get up with an alarm and don’t need coffee (don’t plan to touch the stuff), but I can only remember exactly one day where I woke up feeling properly rested. Dragging myself out of bed is worth it, though. While the tedium of a shift is fast…
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Now Say Something Beautiful and True
I’m here because I’m fed up. I have let fear dominate my life; I have coasted through school, daydreamed without end, and ended up in a miserable job all because of fear. Fear of failure. Fear of humiliation. Fear of confronting the ego. I will do everything in my power to make this blog the…
