It’s Tuesday Sept 17 8:50 PM.

Tuesday, September 17, 8:50 PM EST

This chair is too hard, the wine’s not great, and I wish I could write this directly in the Orb app on my desktop. Instead, I’m stuck drafting in Notes, ready to copy and paste later. I feel uninspired, which usually means I need more time to myself—time to be bored, time to let curiosity sneak in.

It’s funny. I have all these functional corporate skills, but my heart still longs for boldness, chaos, and mess. I want to break molds, yet here I am, constantly building them. I need more downtime to get creative—to let boredom do its work.

“No amount of free snacks, or massages, or ‘fun’ staff retreats will make up for a job that grinds you down, when what you really need is time to be a person.” - Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back

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