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Sep. 5th, 2020 08:14 amIt's Time for the Slow, Aimless Novel to Get Its Due - From Electric Lit, as good an argument as I have seen in a long time for reading The 1.001 Nights, aka The Arabian Nights. If I'm not mistaken I still have an unabridged copy around here somewhere. I also used to have The Decameron, but Ex Husband kept that, too. asshole Speaking of unabridged, I put aside The Count of Monte Christo after discovering the copy I had, which was part of Kitty's library, was a heavily abridged movie tie-in. I got through six or so chapters, the whole time thinking, "This story is moving really fast, even for Dumas. Things are moving so fast I keep expecting someone to tell me to keep my arms and legs inside the car at all times." Well, there's a reason it was moving fast, LOL.
How to be Indistractable - by Nir Eysal, who oughta know because he literally wrote a book on it. I found this article insightful, especially as a perusal of minimalism and digital health subs on Reddit mainly got me a bunch of announcements of people doing digital detoxes. I can understand that a cold turkey, rip off the bandaid approach works for some people - it works for me sometimes but it depends on the situation.
But having several years of mindfulness meditation under my proverbial belt, I would read these announcements with the suspicion that I could do a detox if I liked and it might be good for me. After all, I am generally offline by a certain time each night to allow myself screen-free time before bed, and I am not typically a "glued to my phone" type anyway. So it seemed like the problem isn't so much the phone, but something in our minds that pursues distraction. It's not the internet, it's the way we use it. And this piece confirmed that my suspicion was correct.
No-Churn Acai-Blueberry Ice Cream - since it's still FREAKING HOT, have some ice cream. I'm looking at a lot of no-churn or vegan nice cream recipes right now because I don't have a churn. Kitchenaid makes a churn attachment for their stand mixers which I'm considering buying at some point but this'll do for now. If you have a power blender, you can use frozen blueberries, but if you have a standard blender, you might wish to use fresh, and run the acai packet under warm water for a bit to break it up. I intend to make this today and spoon it into popsicle molds.
I have two short runs this weekend - a three miler today, and another tomorrow. But tomorrow's is supposed to be at race pace. I'm also back to playing games on Steam (a post in and of itself) and if you want to be friends an nerd out on Hollow Knight lemme know.
How to be Indistractable - by Nir Eysal, who oughta know because he literally wrote a book on it. I found this article insightful, especially as a perusal of minimalism and digital health subs on Reddit mainly got me a bunch of announcements of people doing digital detoxes. I can understand that a cold turkey, rip off the bandaid approach works for some people - it works for me sometimes but it depends on the situation.
But having several years of mindfulness meditation under my proverbial belt, I would read these announcements with the suspicion that I could do a detox if I liked and it might be good for me. After all, I am generally offline by a certain time each night to allow myself screen-free time before bed, and I am not typically a "glued to my phone" type anyway. So it seemed like the problem isn't so much the phone, but something in our minds that pursues distraction. It's not the internet, it's the way we use it. And this piece confirmed that my suspicion was correct.
No-Churn Acai-Blueberry Ice Cream - since it's still FREAKING HOT, have some ice cream. I'm looking at a lot of no-churn or vegan nice cream recipes right now because I don't have a churn. Kitchenaid makes a churn attachment for their stand mixers which I'm considering buying at some point but this'll do for now. If you have a power blender, you can use frozen blueberries, but if you have a standard blender, you might wish to use fresh, and run the acai packet under warm water for a bit to break it up. I intend to make this today and spoon it into popsicle molds.
I have two short runs this weekend - a three miler today, and another tomorrow. But tomorrow's is supposed to be at race pace. I'm also back to playing games on Steam (a post in and of itself) and if you want to be friends an nerd out on Hollow Knight lemme know.
