Thursday was repetitive driving
Apr. 24th, 2025 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI drove A. to Fusion for lunch, so she could do cooking club. I drove home. I ate lunch and got a quick shower. I drove back to Fusion to retrieve A. and feed her dinner. I, too, ate dinner, and got her through a quick (for her) shower. (For me, that would be one of the longest showers of my life. We’re working on it.) And then we drove into Boston.
The farm box arrived yesterday, so it’s been All Salad All the Time for me yesterday and today. I’m catching up on greens, which is nice.
Yesterday, I sat down and wrote almost 2000 words about decluttering and aren’t you glad it wasn’t in the blog but instead in a Note. It’s not an outline, because it is sentences, but it’s a rough, initial guide to the piece I want to write. It’s still missing some stuff about aging and energy levels and the scale of the problem at hand and so forth, which may ultimately result in reworking the whole thing yet again, but I’m really close to having something I really believe I can write. The crucial element was recognizing that I didn’t want to write about decluttering — I wanted to write about decluttering discourse and its relationship to what’s going on inside people as they are attending to Their Stuff.
The other thing that could trigger a global restructuring and force me to start all over again would be how seriously I intend to take the parallels between diet-and-exercise discourse and organization-and-decluttering discourse. They are real and they are there and I’m on the fence about whether to just not mention the elephant in the room, to mention the elephant in the room but otherwise not develop the parallels, or to restructure to tackle them both. As I was listening to podcasts in the evening, it occurred to me that these are non-fiction examples of reuse in writing. And furthermore, as I was particularly listening to:
https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/fictional-worlds
(Altho I was listening to it on Apple Podcasts)
It struck me that what Jennifer Barnes is doing is coming up with a _reason_ for why what I call reuse happens.
ETA: We flew to Richmond, and left late and arrived later. I was able to get a rental car promptly, altho between A. using the scented handsoap and the car smelling like it was washed recently inside and out, she really wanted the windows open. Which is fine. The hotel had only feather pillows in the room, and efforts to get foam ones resulted in more feather pillows. *sigh*
We ate at B. Good, which we don’t normally eat at because it’s in A terminal and Jetblue is elsewhere, but we flew Delta this time because the schedule was better for us. Their chicken fingers are awesome and dairy free, and their fries are fine.
The farm box arrived yesterday, so it’s been All Salad All the Time for me yesterday and today. I’m catching up on greens, which is nice.
Yesterday, I sat down and wrote almost 2000 words about decluttering and aren’t you glad it wasn’t in the blog but instead in a Note. It’s not an outline, because it is sentences, but it’s a rough, initial guide to the piece I want to write. It’s still missing some stuff about aging and energy levels and the scale of the problem at hand and so forth, which may ultimately result in reworking the whole thing yet again, but I’m really close to having something I really believe I can write. The crucial element was recognizing that I didn’t want to write about decluttering — I wanted to write about decluttering discourse and its relationship to what’s going on inside people as they are attending to Their Stuff.
The other thing that could trigger a global restructuring and force me to start all over again would be how seriously I intend to take the parallels between diet-and-exercise discourse and organization-and-decluttering discourse. They are real and they are there and I’m on the fence about whether to just not mention the elephant in the room, to mention the elephant in the room but otherwise not develop the parallels, or to restructure to tackle them both. As I was listening to podcasts in the evening, it occurred to me that these are non-fiction examples of reuse in writing. And furthermore, as I was particularly listening to:
https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/fictional-worlds
(Altho I was listening to it on Apple Podcasts)
It struck me that what Jennifer Barnes is doing is coming up with a _reason_ for why what I call reuse happens.
ETA: We flew to Richmond, and left late and arrived later. I was able to get a rental car promptly, altho between A. using the scented handsoap and the car smelling like it was washed recently inside and out, she really wanted the windows open. Which is fine. The hotel had only feather pillows in the room, and efforts to get foam ones resulted in more feather pillows. *sigh*
We ate at B. Good, which we don’t normally eat at because it’s in A terminal and Jetblue is elsewhere, but we flew Delta this time because the schedule was better for us. Their chicken fingers are awesome and dairy free, and their fries are fine.