“Have you left on your road trip yet?” has been a popular question of late.
“No” has been the only accurate answer.
“When are you leaving?” and “What have you been doing?” have been the equally-popular follow-up questions.
“Probably Thursday” and “Absolutely nothing” have been my very happy responses.
In this case, “absolutely nothing” really is what it sounds like – aside from just under two hours of work on JAMWiki code and this journal entry, the past two days have been filled with naps, a game, and a couple of CPK frozen pizzas. While regressing into a waste of life might normally be cause for scorn and self-loathing, after a mostly-unbroken stretch of working for Backcountry, working on side-projects, and trying to have a social life, this new (and hopefully short-lived) degeneration into worthlessness seems to be having a restorative “reset” effect; burnout is ever-so-slowly giving way to a renewed desire to go out into the world and shake things up.