Early Morning Mind-Swirl

 We call it the mind-swirl. The phenomenon of waking up at 3:30, or 4:45, or worst of all, 5 AM and thinking about all the things that need to be done in the coming days, weeks, months, years.

• File that annual report and be sure to have the budget details nailed down, and justified.
• Finish writing that book chapter
• Re-write the entire lab-manual
• Build a raised bed for vegetables
• Pack for vacation
• Make sure to enjoy your vacation
• You're too heavy, do some serious cardio
• Scroll on social media and see an article that says you can not just decide to be a different person
• Contemplate if you should subscribe to the Atlantic
• Find print copies of the New Yorker you have not read for months
• Decide you should not subscribe to the Atlantic
• Make sure to channel the loving spirit of your parents
• Mourn the loss of the last few year's worth of joy due to the Pandemic
• Realize the overwhelming joy you have experienced over the last few years despite the pandemic.
• Be more charitable after reading an article about a meal shared between Jose Andres and Ron Howard in one of those neglected New Yorker magazines.
• Log on to your computer to start working on that annual report.
• Write a silly blog post on Tom Paine's Ghost instead
• Are you sick?
• Is it DayCare funk?
• Yes.

And here I am back to writing terribly but doing it so I can cultivate the feeling of keystrokes in a dimly lit basement with the white of the computer screen lighting up the keyboard.

OK, I'd better go figure out how to use Microsoft Teams and R.

Bye-bye.