Category — Microblog Mondays

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I just started a new bullet journal. It happens about every 1.5 years, so the last bullet journal was like 98% pandemic.

I have a section in the front of things I commonly forget and then drive myself bananas trying to remember. It’s a weird mix of things. The word “panopticon.” The name Simon Armitage. (I seriously just had to open the notebook and look that up. I don’t know why I cannot retain his name for longer than 30 seconds. I will forget it again by tonight.) A hotel we stayed in 19 years ago in London. I don’t need to know any of these things, but when I can’t remember something, I obsessively think about it. This is easier.

Each time, after I copy over the list, I add in anything that I want to remember from the last year or two. All the new stuff that has popped up in the previous bullet journal. So the section is now 12 pages long.

The funny thing in recopying it is that I will find the same thing on the list two or three times, as if I’m proud of myself for remembering it again… not realizing that I remembered it earlier.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I read about this project, the After Life Experience, and thought it was fascinating. You are tasked with coming up with a single memory to live inside forever. Even if you don’t want to contribute one, you can read/listen to the moments that other people chose.

It reminded me of seeing Tino Seghal’s These Associations. We took the twins when it was at the Tate Modern, and one of our first stories was so odd that they became obsessed with sticking around and getting another good one. As in we spent three hours at These Associations. But… the point is that it’s interesting to hear other people’s stories.

Take a listen to some of the stories if you have time on the After Life Experience. You can read without sound, or listen to the stories being read.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I was this many years old when I discovered that Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea” was a copy of Charles Trenet’s “La Mer.” I discovered this when I downloaded an album of 100 Charles Trenet songs, and then found this copy of him singing it on YouTube. I love this performance. It sounds like the sea and kind of breaks my heart at the same time.

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I am totally here for old-timey beach pyjamas. I love swingy pants. Swingy pants on the beach is perfection. I am also here for hostess pyjamas.

Maybe I’m just here for pyjamas. Everywhere. All the time. As a fashion statement.

I am pro-pyjamas. Are you, too?

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Until I read this New Yorker article, I hadn’t realized how much I missed eavesdropping and how it wasn’t present in my world for the last 16 months. The random things you overhear while you’re waiting somewhere or sitting too close to people in a restaurant or passing on the street.

As it says, “The best lines provide several little thrills at once: a sketch of character, a hint of story, the joy of feeling like you understand the rest. Like a Norman Rockwell painting, they’re obvious yet mysterious, conveying too much and too little in a single moment.”

More than seeing people or eating in restaurants, I miss coming home with little snippets, like the first date A Half Baked Life and I overheard between a man and his date, explaining how he shot himself in the foot (in the bathtub!) to collect insurance money but now he is missing a toe.

What are things you’ve overheard?

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