It’s November. I’m doing what I do, writing, for the month. This is Year Twelve of writing every day. I’m also not shaving my upper lip, which I’ve done for probably about the past five or six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why do I keep doing this? I don’t know. My psychologist has identified it as one of the few compulsions I have in my somewhat-unusual case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number of things she’s been able to help me with in the almost three years I’ve been seeing her are nearly impossible to tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, yes, there’s been some dissuasion towards this, but I keep doing it because, the November session, at least, sort of focuses me on the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While I’ve gotten better, personally, many, many things have gotten a lot worse this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first entry last year, I wrote, “I\u2019ve been trying to stay a bit optimistic about what\u2019s going to happen, but I am worried.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think that was justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife and I are trying to figure out how to begin extracting ourselves from the DC swamp. I think we’ve got the start of a plan, but there’s still many lower-case Js to dot, Fs to cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have about two-thirds of the month’s writing planned. Let’s go. Yes, that includes you, too, Brandon. O.o<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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