Hi, my name is not convexer and this is my garbage site. I created this site
because I wanted a place where I could be my full & terrible self without
worrying too hard about making a positive impression.
Topics of interest include personal shit, gender politics, regular politics,
and the modern workplace. I don’t really proofread my posts, so let me know if
I say anything that’s just wrong.
“If I have peed farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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Losing interest in the things that were supposed to make it better
Everything has been such a drag lately. A better-adapted person might, in such a
situation, try to cheer up by doing known-fun things, like reading or going for
a bike ride. Instead I have been sitting around scrolling the awful, awful news
feeds and spiraling into despair.
Maybe I should do like others and do a bit of a media cleanse, take a step back
from it all. But I’m not sure it’s just media that I need a break from, so much
as the news itself, which would reach me either way, because my friends and colleagues
are constantly bringing it up. And lots of the topics in play affect me or my loved
ones immediately, so to some extent I can’t afford not to know. Maybe I’m just
making excuses.
I made a couple of good attempts. Over the weekend, I went alone to some of the
big tourist attractions in my city (which is not my hometown, so I’d never been
to these spots before)—wandered and reflected. I noticed others who appeared to
be doing the same. It’s rough out there.
