I have two very big posts gestating. You get nothing for now, apart from this link here and another one here, along with the provisional titles The spread of online vitriol and Evolving an attitude to praise. I’m experimenting with longer titles. It might not last long.
I never said - I’m working at the moment, though it’s too temporary (and too easy) for me to confidently hold my head up and say “I have a job”. I’m working as an enrolment clerk at an unnamed college in Stockport, and it’s easy money with no prospects whatsoever.
I have regressed a little, built myself back up again and regressed a little less over the last couple of weeks. I’ve become very conscious of the levels of stress that I can deal with, and have more or less silenced the guilt-trip-inducing part of my brain that insists I should always be doing better. Related: I’m on a waiting/processing list for therapy sessions.
I have been using alienation - not physical, as I’ve been seeing and talking to a lot of people lately, but internal - to my own advantage again. Clearing away everyday concerns and thinking about things in abstract can do wonders for your blood pressure.
Music this week has predominantly been this.