Last Week (July 20, 2024) | goofpunk.com

While it's been a busy week in the world, it's been a quiet one for me, for the most part. I've felt myself this week fall in and out of a bit of depressive funk, but I'm doing okay. I started a new medication a few weeks ago, a mood stabilizer, and it seems to be doing its job. Normally a moment like this would very easily lead into a larger depressive spiral, but for now I'm comfortable riding out the malaise, knowing that it will certainly pass. I've been journaling a lot this week, which I think helps. When I say "journaling", you may be thinking of it like a diary entry, but it's pretty far from it. I use my notebook (a small pocket memo book, because big notebooks make me nervous) in the way Joan Didion did,1 to collect all kinds of things: quotes from books, phrases I hear, moments I notice, random thoughts that in the past I may have tweeted or posted in a group chat. I think it helps to get my ideas out of my head, and doing it into the notebook keeps it from other people havi

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