AM⌭PM | 004
...It takes me a long time to get going in the morning. When I woke up, I would move slowly and not think clearly for at least an hour...
Topic
Journal
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 | 003
Hi,
I'm writing this one mid-day, right at the border of when AM becomes PM. Reason
for this: A Friday with a full dance card of things and stuff that need my time
and attention.
I started to write about how living this way was affecting me yesterday
AM⌭PM | 002
Hello,
Welcome to the second edition of AM⌭PM
[https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/am-pm/], an experimental email newsletter
blog sort of thing, written by me --Neil Gorman
[https://www.surplusjouissance.com/about-neil/] as part of [S][J][P]
[https://www.surplusjouissance.com/].
-◉-
AM
As I write these
AM⌭PM | 001
Trying a new process/structure today. In the morning (am) write something. Ideally, before the day gets rolling. (I say "ideally" because I know this will not always be possible.) Then, at the end of the day (pm) write something.
|11|02|21|
One of the things that I'm having trouble doing is caring about things as much
as I want to. The main reason for this (as far as I can tell) is that I don't
have enough time.
To put it another way: Doing things takes time,
|10|21|21|
One of the things I've become very interested in is slow looking
[http://pz.harvard.edu/resources/slow-looking-the-art-and-practice-of-learning-through-observation]
(a sort of sub-set of slow living [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_living]).
I've been trying to modify the approach to how I listen to ambient music.
|10|20|21|
I've been watching the TV show Heels, which, on the surface, is about
independent professional wrestling. When I watched the show, I started thinking
that under the surface, it is a show about how people struggle with the
different aspects of themselves and how unconscious desires often get
|10|19|21|
At the bottom of the stairs in my house is a print with this excerpt from the
poem Invitation
[https://wordsfortheyear.com/2017/08/28/invitation-by-mary-oliver/], by Mary
Oliver [https://maryoliver.com/].
> It is a serious thing
> Just to be alive
> On this fresh morning
> In
|10|18|21|
Mondays are long days for me. I start at about 9:00 am and then see patients all
day. Today I wrapped up at 8:00 pm.
One of the things I've noticed as I listen to people talk about their lives is
that most people are scared
|10|17|21|
Woke up to a beautiful combination of crisp air and bright sun, a beauty of a
day. Be that as it may, I felt exhausted. I thought it would clear up after I
got some coffee in me, but even after two cups, it was still like I was moving