Evening reflection 2/25/24 (Patreon)

Currently, I’m sitting in bed and winding down to sleep at my LA office.

I personally really like sleeping here. My office is located by the beach, and sleeping here with the windows open, especially at night… Where I’m situated, you perfectly only hear the white noise of the slipstream of cars blazing past, and not the cars itself, just the sound as these metal objects cut through the air.

After unloading the first half of my gear, I tried to play some video games to relax. The kind of person that I am, I only play multiplayer/team based games, and with Blaire gone… it was too lonely for my liking. I really enjoyed the escapism with my partner, in our own world—so it looks like no games for a while.

Instead I finished unloading the last of my gear, damaged my TV (sad face), and then went to the book store. I set out looking for a sketch book and some works by James Baldwin. I listened to a fascinating podcast on James Baldwin today and was inclined to read his works, but after reading a few at the store, I think I’ll have to wait until I’m in a better headspace. I’ll share tomorrow what I got instead!

It feels good to move again. I especially really like the city my office is in. It feels clean, quiet, safe, and little traffic; a rarity in Southern California.

Tomorrow, I’ll be setting up just a basic setup to quickly get my backlog stuff going. I was considering both uploading and cleaning up and organizing the office with all that I brought, but I’m being mindful and remembering; I woke up at 4AM today. I’m exhausted, I should let myself recover.

I’m going to put up with mess for a day to just be a little lazy, but still get work, the backlog going and do my FREAKING TAXES (I have a tax person but they need me to do a bunch of complex stuff and I’m just super frustrated I keep starting and giving up; but tomorrow’s the day!). Just two goals, backlog and taxes. There can be another day for cleaning, organizing, and setting up when I’m better rested.

Being mindful is super hard.

That’s all for me, I hope you guys also make mindful decisions for your next days, and I wish you all a great start to your week tomorrow (or today for you future time travelers)!

-Jaehyuk PD