26.4.26
I'm finally back to where I was strength-wise before my extended break from the gym. It's felt like such an uphill battle, but it's nice to be able to see things pay off eventually.

I'd like to be more consistent with lifting this year and really put some more muscle mass on, since I feel like I've just been hanging around the 70kg range forever. Still, I can finally see some progress.

9.4.26
I've been reading a lot of books. This is not a recent change; I've always loved reading. However, during university, I took a very long break from any reading for pleasure as my course was so reading-heavy. It was only in my final year that I picked up a book for fun: The Scarlet Letter.

It wasn't the easiest book to get into after years without fiction, but I found myself nonetheless dragged into Hawthorne's world.

More than that, it was as though I had awoken from a trance each time I closed the book. My whole body had relaxed, my limbs felt like lead, my brain felt fuzzy. I found myself almost in a fugue state, like the world had suddenly stopped spinning beneath my feet.

This feeling wasn't specific to Hawthorne, either. Upon finishing that book, I began to read voraciously, like an appetite returning after eating a small morsel of food. Since leaving university and entering the world of work, this appetite has only grown. I continue to chase that feeling of dissolution - of completely losing myself in the words on a page. On the bus to work; in the park on a spring afternoon; lying in my bed and squinting in the half-dark, I seek that sense of mental weightlessness.

It is like falling asleep.

8.4.26
Took a LONG break to visit friends over Easter and now hoping to finish off this page. I still find it crazy how I can imagine an idea for a page in my head and then just create it.

27.3.26
I've recently begun creating this page as a way to share random thoughts or interesting things as a sort of microblog.

Inspired by Monothematica's site.