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"I’m sad. I don’t want to leave the 80s. It’s just been, like, no notifications and pizza. Uh, yes, please?"
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I am the most judgmental when I see a productivity hustle YouTuber type with only 1-3 fingers per hand. Especially when they're typing on a customized mechanical keyboard.
Then I feel guilty.
Then I decide to let myself feel judgmental. I need the win.
Someday they'll be one actually missing fingers, but I won't notice at first, then I will notice, and the added guilt will take a multi-day bender to alleviate.
In a world defined by user-generated content sorted by algorithms, we all become desperate attention-seekers. We all become impossibly uncool.
Today I finally went to PT for my foot and was diagnosed with Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome, which, now that I know what that is...yep, that's it!
Partly relieved to have a solid diagnosis, I've been told to take a break from bike riding for at least 1.5 weeks, which is terrifying (mostly from a mental health standpoint).
Lockdown had some silver linings for me. I forgot about this event. I was poking around my long-dormant short story collection project and was trying to find some feedback I'd received from a fellow writer I know here in Dallas. The email search surfaced this post about a reading of his work (that I had published on a writing site I was part of at the time). I've copied it to its appropriate spot in my blog's chronology.
