Two weeks
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Can you believe we're only two weeks into the
new year?

I really can't. It's felt like months and months
already.

I won't be complaining right now about how weird
everything is and, instead, I just want to talk
about my day.

I woke up really early for a Sunday, a little
after 6am, I slept alright because I'd actually
taken some of my sleep meds the night before
plus I've been sticking to only one big cup of
coffee a day instead of the 1-2g of caffeine
I've been having for most of the pandemic.

I actually, get this, thought about how I had
promised to get my loved ones doughnuts from the
vegan doughnut place for breakfast and, instead
of just laying there hating myself for how
exhausted I was, I *got up and caught the next
bus out*.

The doughnuts were great like always. Doe is
incredible and even though I'm not vegan (though
I eat like one a lot of the time) I don't think
I'd go anywhere else in this city. They had a
savory tofu scramble doughnut that I got for
myself. Fried dough filled with oniony,
turmericy, tofu scramble and it was goddamn
delicious.

We played NieR: Replicant for awhile, the
remaster that came out last year, and it's a fun
game though its pacing is kinda rough. The
characters and world-building is fun as hell but
they're really bad at conveying a sense of time
passing so it practically feels at times like
"wait didn't you guys just meet why are you
referencing all these things you know about each
other now?" because clearly you're supposed to
have a sense of a *lot* more time passing than
it seems like in-story. The fact that the story
does do an explicit five-year jump actually
helps get the character dynamics a little more
on track and helps me put aside some of the
temporal incongruity of the early game.

After that, well, long walks and talking and
watching twitch.tv/dumbdog do his weekly try not
to laugh challenge.

I also started reading the book Sources of Power
which is the culmination of research into how
people actually make decisions and how it's
different than the cultural story we tell of
leadership and split second decision making.

Not a bad day but a sad one at times because
we're all feeling the weight of the world right
now and it nips at our heels in quiet moments.

But for today, we made a little peace and happiness.