{"id":6178,"date":"2026-07-21T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:29:01","slug":"1-7-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/1-7-21\/","title":{"rendered":"1 (7\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing again because, well, this was something I could do to slightly quash my racing mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I <em>think<\/em> we might be past the peak on summer heat, but it&#8217;s been a very uncomfortable summer so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still have an irrational resistance to eating oysters in a month that doesn&#8217;t have an &#8220;R&#8221; in the name, but, I dunno, just feels like something you do when you&#8217;re not sweating through your clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of comfort, I&#8217;m actually wearing basically business-casual stuff today.  Nursing just ice water as I wait for my ride into the District to go be a lab rat for a few years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took a quick glance at what it&#8217;d cost me to get rides to\/from Biloxi and New Orleans.  Um.  Okay.  I&#8217;ll pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s get into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t remember if i mentioned it, but these where from a deck of writing prompts I got, I think, for Christmas last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I scanned them using the Google App, and copied-and-pasted them using the inbuilt OCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That this can happen now <em><strong>is fucking awesome<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I anticipate it&#8217;ll have as much problems understanding my chicken scratch as my teachers and professors did, but I&#8217;d imagine there might be something in my mother&#8217;s garage that&#8217;d be worth trying to capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How do I listen to my body, and when do I tend to ignore it?<\/em>I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The short answer to this one is, &#8220;I don&#8217;t.&#8221;  The longer answer is, &#8220;I don&#8217;t, because what my body tells me is so often just complete nonsense.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I uncomfortable?  Pretty much all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I hungry?<br>Am I nauseated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The psychologist I&#8217;ve been seeing has helped me a lot with those, but I still have problems from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I exhausted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, but I&#8217;ll ignore that until I collapse, which probably isn&#8217;t a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think we&#8217;re running.  Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing again because, well, this was something I could do to slightly quash my racing mind. I think we might be past the peak on summer heat, but it&#8217;s been a very uncomfortable summer so far. 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