08 september 2016
i'm thinking about applying to mountaineering school this year. it's weekend outings and weekday evening classroom sessions, plus a structured training regimen, for four months. the graduation trip is on my birthday.
i've been feeling increasingly frustrated with my physical condition, because i'm not getting closer to my goals. i spent a weekend climbing with a bunch of new people, and it reminded me that there's always more work to be done, and that it's up to me to find ways to squeeze it in with the rest of my life.
i'm taking an anthropology class with a professor that's new to me, and it's kind of exciting.
i'm sketching out a few ideas for new photo projects. i'm considering giving myself permission to officially shelve some old photo projects that have obviously stalled, so i can move on.
life is complicated. planning is hard. i always feel like i'm running out of time.
hey! you know what i just remembered exists? the tilde town collaborative twine that a bunch of us worked on a while back! according to my records, i started writing for it in january 2015.
i've been thinking about collaboration a lot lately, and sketching out a few ideas for things i want to try out.
here's my old blog entry from 5 january 2015:
friends, i am really excited about collaboration. i am even more excited about disorganized, incidental, and mysterious collaboration. this is the main draw of tildeverse for me.
i like when things have just enough structure to create the idea of a context, but not enough structure to dictate exact terms of interaction. i like examining patterns of what people do and i like thinking about what sort of things can be built from those patterns that are greater than what anyone things is possible.
i like when indirect actions are more meaningful than direct actions. nethack empire is only the beginning of scratching this itch; i am slowly learning more about what this could become.
i learned about the tilde town twine today, thanks to ~krowbar in irc earlier, and it is making my brain pace restlessly. i want to build a metaverse. of what verse it will be meta-ing, i am not yet sure.
thanks for being here, everyone. thanks for being here and doing things and thinking about them.
i'm all about constant personal growth. i can feel good about what i've learned in the past year and a half since then.