11 days until Paris
One tricky part about writing a public blog is going to be avoiding self-censorship. I often used to write in a small notebook on vacations. Towards the end of a trip, or when I returned home, I would transcribe my writing into a Microsoft Word document titled"Journal Entries". I observed this practice fairly religiously from 2007 until the summer of 2014. At the end of the summer before junior year of college, my computer broke. The hard drive was damaged and I had to "system restore" the laptop to its factory settings. Seven years of consistent writing and deep, meaningful thoughts instantly disappeared. I hadn't even thought to back up the fucking the computer. It was devastating, as if I had lost a chunk of memories from inside my brain.
At the time, I thought it was much worse because I also had long videos on my hard drive of my grandmother. She had passed away in March of 2014, just 5 months before my laptop broke. So I was dealing with the frustration of the loss of my intimate writing, combined with the terror that I had stupidly neglected to backup precious videos of my grandmother. As it turns out, the videos were backed up onto a Flip Camera. But the journal entries were gone. In the interest of being a wise man and a member of the 21st century, I'm going to do more of my blogging online and publicly. Some things will still be private. But this will be a way to force myself to write more, as well as diminish the amount of self-censorship in which I indulge.
A Small Bag on a Big Adventure - Medium
Jack Purcell's Tumbled Leather - Converse
Can't really be spending this much on shoes before a big trip, but umphff.
