I am beginning to feel reasonably recovered from the whirlwind week.
Sun, summery warmth (when in the right wind-protected corner), and everything turning green all at once certainly helps too.
In one way, it feels like things will now stay calm until the summer holidays.
In another, it feels like those holidays are like two breaths away, and there are plenty of things in the calendar before they start too.
In any case, it does feel good to sit down in the evening - after work and dinner and dog walks - and at least feel caught up with what I hoped to get done during the day.
Then, that familiar thought starts seeping into my mind: is there something more I should be doing with the evening to feel even better? I would really like to find a good default way of dealing with that thought, because it usually leads me nowhere. It feels like a gateway to sitting around flipping between little things, not focusing on anything but not resting and recovering or really letting my mind wander either.
Still pretty relaxed as far as problems go, but also a very silly way of making a free evening just slightly worse.
Hey: books!
I finished another book! More everything forever was a great and easy read about the beliefs of singularitarians, effective altruists, and related people and billionaires of all sorts. It is one more on my growing pile of AI-related reading, and I am sure this is the first time since university I have ever bought this many books related to the same topic, and got through them so relatively quickly too. It is the kind of experience that makes one look back at university and wonder how one could manage to not enjoy studying then as much as one does now. (Does it matter slightly that I hand-picked my own course literature and read at precisely my own pace, without any tests afterward? It might …) We have touched on many of the topics of the books in Kodsnack episodes, but I think I want to do one or more directly related to them as well, because there is so much in there.
Which reminds me: I have a Murakami on my bedside table, only just started! There is a great thing to spend some unallocated evening time on!
By the way, I wrote this in Gram. It is a pretty darn nice little editor.