2023-05-31 Journal Entry

🍃 Season: 🌷 Spring 🔆 Weekday: Wednesday 🗓 Date: May 31, 2023 📅 Week: May 29 – Jun 4, 2023

Feeling reasonably energized this morning, although I didn’t sleep particularly well. Staying up late to play Overwatch isn’t exactly the best use of time, turns out. I pulled the PC out to play a few games the other day, but I need to put it back in the closet.

Word association has turned out to be a fun tool for songwriting, both association of meaning and of sounds. I’ve been listening to a lot of music with this in mind, and it’s interesting just how much music I like plays off of this — Pinegrove does this a lot (”when you get down, stay down, way down, wade down”), and obviously rap and hip hop pulls from that a ton (I noticed it a lot in RAP Ferreira and when I was listening to Domo Genesis). I want to spend some time this evening doing this a bit more actively. Even just on my walk today I had some brain-tickly ideas from tugging that thread a bit.

Walking meditation was also a lovely use of my morning — on my usual walk around Dolores, I just did a simple awareness practice of my legs, and it was really nourishing. It would be nice to experiment with other kinds of walking practices during that walk, because it’s a big chunk of my day (about an hour if you count the walks both before and after work), and it’d be nice to fold my meditation time into that. I’ve been using it thus far for audiobooks, but I can always switch between the two.

It’s interesting that this journal has largely switched from the “omg just barf everything possible” to “here’s a mild reflection on the previous/upcoming day,” and I think that’s fine, but it’s worth acknowledging. They’re a bit shorter, I know, but I feel like I’m transitioning into my hustling era, and so I have other things I need to get done.

Speaking of which — time for breakfast and getting to work. Love you.