Is it hypocritical of me to say that I miss when people used to write long-form blog posts when I’ve been really bad at doing so myself?<\/p>\n
Probably, but something something do as I say not as I do.<\/p>\n
The sporadically (and weirdly) warm weather the past couple weeks seems to have started triggering my spring allergies already, resulting in me waking up at 4 or 5 AM with a running or congested nose, so blame this post on that.<\/p>\n
I’ve been reading back through my old journal posts from during and before the pandemic, and I… really miss pre-pandemic life. And it also strikes me that I used to have a much more obvious “life outside of work”, but that mostly disappeared during the pandemic and hasn’t come back since. I don’t think this is the fault of work — my teams and manager and everyone has always been great about work-life balance — but it just feels like something inside me stopped being able to properly destress outside of work (so *all* of my non-work hours are now spent trying to relax) and\/or my hobbies now would rely on things I’d consider unacceptably high risk (like going to Origins again and sitting in a convention hall with thousands of people for 4 days).<\/p>\n
But it’s striking how much I used to do outside of work, whether it was as simple as “host board games on a weekend” or “go rock climbing once a week” to “dedicate a day every week to doing newspaper things for The Tartan” or “go to things like weddings or group events”. It’s not that I don’t write<\/em> about them anymore… I don’t do<\/em> them anymore. It’s probably worth a more serious look at how I can change that.<\/p>\n 2024 will probably end up being a year of change (and unexpectedly expected large expenditures of money), in many ways, and not just for myself. It’ll be interesting for me to make a December post and see how many of the currently ongoing pieces of “fun” (both with myself and friends) ended up working out.<\/p>\n Anyway… life goes. There should probably be some photos in this post, but it’s 6:30 AM and I’m not going to boot up my photo computer to satisfy that itch, so wall-of-text it is. (Or was.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it hypocritical of me to say that I miss when people used to write long-form blog posts when I’ve been really bad at doing so myself? Probably, but something something do as I say not as I do. The … Continue reading