Friday, December 26, 2025

perhaps not an auspicious start

I just saw a video 
where David Foster Wallace gives
FIVE bits of advice to
basically 
his writing students 
&
that made me remember 

I started his book 
BUT 
I didn't finish it 

I start books
I don't finish them
SOME percentage of the time 
& I don't know what the percentage is 
BUT 
if I've ever said I STARTED reading something 

& then didn't mention it again 
MAYBE I didn't finish 

I'm pretty mentally scattered
& I am not trying to get credit for having done
WHATEVER 

I'm KINDA anxious today 
I was planning to go 
SEE my mom
BUT 
I think I need some 
OUT in the WORLD time

I just have to make myself get out there
sitting around the house 
is not that good for me

& I seem to be transforming the empathy engine 
into some kind of internal
SELF EMPATHY 
integration tool
& I'm not sure 
WHAT to make of THAT 

I hope you are having a beautiful day sweetheart 

I am feeling anxious & jumpy
I don't want to listen to 
CRAZY sh*t from my mom
& I FEEL 

whether I'm right or not
as though seeing her
will DAMAGE me

WEIRD