My life as an irresponsible 20-something...

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Do you suffer from smiling depression?

Three weeks on board an icebreaker with no access to the internet and none of the music I usually use to lose myself in creatively and I have never felt more alive, alone, connected to other creatively, euphoric, encompassed by the immensity of living on this planet and touched by the emotional impact of witnessing things that I am sure I will spend my life trying to explain properly and succinctly.

I would stand alone on the top deck of the ship at night my face towards the wind, as ice floes drifted past like stars against the darkness of the sea, my mind composing music on the tail end of the cold breeze as it brushed against my face, my thoughts weaving themselves into the infinite narratives that surrounded me.

And the world seemed vast and limitless in those moments as temporal reality drifted away from us.

American Riviera 

Here’s the thing… I’m in a lot of technical meetings at work. People take meeting mins but I always take my own notes… by hand… it helps me remember things and sometimes when people take meeting mins they don’t really understand what’s being discussed or they miss things because they may not know better and think it’s unimportant. That being said… I take A LOT of notes.. which is good… and bad. I know I’ve written things down but it’s takes me FOREVER to actually go back and find it (especially if I don’t have a general date).

Here’s where ya’ll come in… I’m looking to go digital with my notes. This doesn’t mean typing them up on my laptop during the meeting… I can’t do that… for me it’s distracting and I don’t remember it anywhere close to as well as when I write them down. I’m not going to take my handwritten notes and type them after every meeting… I definitely don’t have time for that. And I’m not going to scan my notes all the time and use an OCR program… they don’t really learn your handwriting and the ones I’ve tried aren’t all that great… plus that takes up too much time. I’m looking to invest in a tablet, maybe a surface type computer, or maybe one of those digital pens that I can basically write my notes down and have a copy of my notes in my handwriting but also have a program that converts it to text so it’s searchable, readable, and sendable to other people. The program definitely has to be one of those that learn/get use to your handwriting so I don’t have to keep correcting it (I’m ok with a small learning curve for it up front). Has anyone tried any of these things? Which ones worked? Which ones didn’t? I’m really leaning more towards a tablet or digital pen (rather than a surface computer) because I already bring my laptop to meetings with me to share and pull up pdfs and models and I really don’t want to have to carry two.

Hope this helps!!

DIY Weighted Tie Blanket

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New York City - Snow - East Village

…a sweet dusting of white

on top of glazed chocolate concrete

that melted on the tongue of memory

like a dream.

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