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The journal tag is a bit different than the notebook tag… The journal or personal thoughts, feelings, reveries, etc. that I want to document. The notebook, on the other hand, is this a bunch of stuff that I find I don’t wanna lose track of.

AM⌭PM | 015

I felt like I needed to change things up a bit, so rather than writing first thing in the morning, I did other things. One of the things I did was take a walk in the cold. It was 14 degrees Fahrenheit-10 Celsius, and there was a wind. The walk

AM⌭PM | 014

Very early It is 5:27 am as I write this. I've managed to make my body get out of a warm bed. I can look out the window and see Christmas lights on homes, which is a pleasant thing to look at as my body adjusts to

AM⌭PM | 013

I've had this idea for an essay. I'll be trying to do something, and my thoughts will wander back to this idea. I've tried to ignore it because I've got too much to do, and I'm already working on one

AM⌭PM | 012

The end of the semester is here, and so is all of the frantic activity and stress that comes with the end of a semester. Yesterday was a crazy busy day. As soon as I was awake, I was getting things done. Any "free time" was used to

AM⌭PM | 011

When I started writing AM⌭PM, the goal was to write something every day. The simple plan was to write something every morning and write something every evening. I quickly learned that writing in the morning is not a problem. But writing something in the evening is a challenge for

AM⌭PM | 010

The last AM⌭PM I sent out [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/am-pm-009/]was a mess. It had spelling errors in it! I'm embarrassed. This may be some ad hoc reasoning: I wrote AM⌭PM | 009 [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/am-pm-009/] on a Saturday. I usually don't

AM⌭PM | 009

Early My family and I are staying at my in-law's lake house, which is a beautiful place. I woke up at about 5:45 am today and started to write at 6:07 am. Soon other people will wake up. The plan is to make pancakes. I'

AM⌭PM | 008

I'm writing this mid-afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving. After breakfast, my oldest son (2.5 years old) and I started to brink up Christmas decorations from our basement. Then we spent time getting our (fake) tree up and decorating it with the rest of the family. As we

AM⌭PM | 007

Early in the morning I started to write this at 5:31 am. I have not used an alarm very much for the better part of the past two and a half years. This is because small children, who are often allowed (and encouraged!) to take naps during the day,

AM⌭PM | 006

The AM I woke up at 4:45 am today, which is earlier than I usually do. Just woke up. I tried to get back to sleep, but my body wanted to be awake. I drank some water, then some coffee, looked to the east, and watched the sky start