Imp Writes

Two and a half years ago, I saw a Sasha tweet about omelettes, and i decided it would be a fun instance of visa's Do 100 Thing.  I had no idea how long it would take to complete, but it didn't matter, because i do enjoy making and eating omelettes, and I was willing to let the journey last as long as it needed to. A couple of weeks ago I made my 100th omelette. Technically, I've made quite a few more that I've forgotten to post for various reasons. What have I learned? This is possibly the longest single "project" I've ever done. (Most academic projects and such like have been at most a year) I'm generally not very consistent at returning to projects that I've started. I think this is fine in many cases, though sometimes I feel like producing some output would have made the time i spent on it more worthwhile (cf the many textbooks ive read a quarter of). I think this one reached the end state I envisioned because a lot of factors were in place.   M...

I've been reading visa's excellent word vomits and I feel inspired to write more publicly - I've often felt a sense of wanting to express my thoughts and feelings but being blocked by friction, feeling I don't have the right audience, that I don't have the skill to zero in on the thing I actually want to say. So I'm going to try anyway. Right now it's 1:20 am and I'm hanging out at F's feeling tired and sleepy and vaguely guilty that I ended up scrolling twitter instead of reading R:EC like I planned and felt would be more nourishing for my brain. I hoped grounding myself in where I am (twisted onto the sofa with my feet up on the wicker chair) would help me think of what comes next but it's not that easy huh? The interesting thing - and what I keep coming back to - is the dark matter of human society - things you can't say in public because it's socially inappropriate and so you only ever learn under unusual circumstances - or never - or...