A random assortment of things consumed & consuming me

I told Zach, “Hey this is just like Persona but without all the extra stuff” and by extra stuff I meant battles.

Bits from Small Rain & Why I Liked them

Last week I wrote some rambling thoughts about Small Rain and so this week I thought I’d just pull apart a lot of the bits I underlined and starred as I read through the novel.

Rambling thoughts on Small Rain

When I read a book I have an almost pathological urge to assign it relevancy to my life. I look for the ways its structure or meaning folds into my own: its metaphors overlapping the facade of my own self discovery.

Snippets

I felt the heat. My skin damp with sweat, my throat hoarse and dry, uncomfortably tightening and turning in and over on itself; attempting, in futility, to clear the ash from me.

Here's what I've been consuming so far in January (and maybe a little before that too)

some brief bits on what i've consumed in January, and maybe a little before that too.

five for the new year

My therapist tells me to be more delusional. “I have all sorts of people come in here,” he says. “Gold-medal Olympians, a woman writing a book, someone who just ran a marathon.

1 last one for 2024

Our first fight was about the meaning behind a book. I was desperate for someone to find me intelligent and took every disagreement as a slight against myself.

A wrap-up of all the things I've written this year that I like.

I wrote a lot this year, even though I think I didn’t. I wanted to look back at some of the things I’ve written and see what I liked best. Some of these are full bits while others are just short snippets of what I enjoyed.

a year of work + 2025 resolutions/goals