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Random stuff, in the order that they occur to me:

1) The Rolling Stone 500 Albums listening project is off to a good start: Ask Rufus by Rufus with Chaka Khan, Los Angeles by X, Nevermind by Nirvana (the only one here I'd listened to in full before now), The Clash self-titled, Dónde Están los Ladrones by Shakira, and Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu, in that order. Six albums, six thumbs up. Since they're supposed to be in random order, I've been having [personal profile] hypnagogie pull the index cards. I told her she's been good luck so far; she says, "Or is it because you love music?" Since she just pulled Willy and the Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival, I'm sticking with the good luck theory. (For now, anyway. Drake could turn up aaaaany second now.)

2) I finally posted a new YouTube video after a more-than-two-month silence, having finally recovered sufficiently from the dag-flabberin' click-and-drag NIGHTMARE I'd set for myself on the previous one. I'm still trying to get up the gumption to put myself back on camera, but I did settle for doing a voiceover, which is plenty vulnerable and gives me ample opportunity to cuss about my lack of decent gear. The vid has been received well—apparently people like it better when you don't smack them with a 45-minute clip montage, go figure.

3) True to form, I've already started the next video. Hi, I'm Adam.

4) I picked up some vanilla ice cream and blood orange Sanpellegrino to make a concoction I whipped up when we had COVID last year and were spending our time mainlining Murder She Wrote reruns and praying for morphine. Simple enough recipe: vanilla ice cream, blood orange Sanpellegrino, blender, pour, drink. Very comforting when you're spiking a temperature. We called it the "Fever Dreamsicle" mainly because [personal profile] hypnagogie wouldn't let me call it "Et Tu, Fruté". (I haven't made it yet this week, because I can't be arsed to haul out the blender.)

5) To be clear: even if I'm not replying, I'm reading. I'm pleased to be shown this part of your life.
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I've been meaning to cobble together a post about my YouTube channel, and since the "I've been meaning to" phase has lasted a year and a half at this point: Hey! I have a YouTube channel! It's called Reckoned Opinions (here, have yourself a link), and it's devoted to pop culture top ten lists and that kind of thing—not exactly trailblazing, but I'm having a blast and doing work I'm pleased with and finally developing something resembling a viewership, so I'll take it. I'm currently working on a new epic-lite supercut video, which means I'm mustache-deep in Project Mode, juggling Post-Its and paper clips and (no exaggeration) 850 index cards in an effort to get all the bits and pieces cobbled together in some semblance of order. It also means that I intermittently want to delete all of my online accounts and either crawl under a rock, take up goat herding, or both.

Don't get me wrong, it's still fun for the most part, but oh fragrant gods does my brain hurt. It's the organizational process that's doing me in; I'm trying something different with the editing, and it's putting me in red string on the bulletin board territory. My executive functioning can be somewhat damaged on the best of days, and right now I'm asking it to dance on a sprained ankle. This in turn bleeds over into life away from Adobe Premiere, because this sort of brain-weary that makes me misplace the second halves of sentences before I'm done with the first halves. And that, in turn, pokes me in the place in my psyche that makes me emotionally puny when I'm stressed or sleep deprived. The other day I asked Andrea about dinner, she texted back "I thought we'd decided that," and because I couldn't remember that earlier conversation I tripped a low-level meltdown, not collapse so much as operational weirdness.

So, intentional self-care it is. I did a video a few months ago presenting every title in the Criterion Collection (1,190 of them, at the time), a project that turned out well but at the cost of my life being devoured like that hard-boiled egg in Angel Heart for three whole weeks. The current project is similar, only with a side of conspiracy theorist / four-dimensional chess player action, so I'm doing my best to maintain a healthy and reasonable level of obsession. More breaks, more stretching, more Things That Are Not That Thing. Also, I'm giving myself permission to take too long to complete it, because deadlines make the baby Jesus cry. I think it's going to be amazing once it's done, and I'm hoping I'll be upright enough to appreciate it once I get there.

(Relatedly, I'm at the office today, and the index cards are at home. I'm not saying that's why I'm on DW today after a yearlong absence, but I'm not not saying that. Also, I missed you guys.)
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