damn even chicago’s never had a mayor indicted. further proof NYC’s mayor wasn’t up to the job. if he was any good he wouldn’t have gotten caught.
“What did you write your PhD dissertation on?” “The sex scandals that happened between 11:12 and 11:17 pm on Thursday, Sept 19, 2024. I had wanted to focus on the whole day, but my advisor warned that only Robert Caro could write such a long, multi-volume series well.”
All this to say, oof, well I feel seen in that whole crossing of wires in TTRPGs.
Leaning in and trusting it is part of the accepting and getting along with oneself in the world, I think. Special interests get a bad wrap when it’s about replacing yourself with something, instead of applying a new perspective.
It was a stepping stone, building the encyclopedia to bring on the next step of performance and criticism. And it just keeps zooming out as time goes on; not a good or bad thing, but a static relationship to typicality that scales and isn’t something you just fix.
This is how I made a sharp turn from thinking I’d be some kind of cellular biologist to incoming English major. The shift to novels and analysis in high school showed me a sandbox where I could play out different sets of rules in the confines of a smaller, given context. And the rest was history.
Sum up your job in one image:
Big same from my ghost town. Sunday - Thursday folks are off and some others elect to work from home. Zero meetings and low likelihood of sudden fires to extinguish.* *Metaphorical only, I guess a county bus downstairs did actually catch fire last Friday.
