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ringneckedpheasant · 2 years ago

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i’ve been reading a book that’s an edited down version of decades worth of journals that some lady inherited from her gay uncle when he died in the late 80s (early 90s?) & in the foreword she talked about how he kept ridiculously meticulous records of like 60 years of his life that she had to sift through and I am just. having fun thinking about inflicting that on one of my sister’s kids when I eventually kick the bucket

#this guy was kind of reclusive and had debilitating anxiety for most of his life & that’s why he journaled so much #& I am just. I’m already a hermit I might as well be doing something in my spare time #& I also have a really bad memory & it bothers me how much of my life has been lost to time #& also this book is such a cool primary source text Because he was so weirdly meticulous #like records of every place he went to in dc and tons of stuff about the layout of the city #& it makes the past feel very close #marc.txt #sorry i just got back into journaling in february after like a 6 year hiatus #all my journals from ≈14–18 got such severe mold damage at the last place I lived that I had to throw all of them away #& it broke me of the habit & made me lose my motivation for a very long time #i’ve tried a couple times to pick it up again since then but this is the only time it’s really stuck

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