Mm-mmmh Good
I realized today that the things I enjoy most in life truly are "simple" things. Things like cooking, working out, reading, knitting, running small errands require me to focus only on one thing: the task at hand. I'm finding it more and more frustrating to work on projects and assignments that are supposed to tie sweeping concepts, anecdotes, and facts together into a polished product. I simply cannot wrap my mind around them. Not for a lack of an attention span but because I get too caught up in what the end result is "supposed" to be to devote my full attention to any one of the pieces. Grrh.

I just spent almost the whole entirety of this afternoon making and eating a huge batch of Japanese curry, slow-cooking the vegetables and thickening the sauce. Then I sat and ate it lazily, watching Newlyweds and cursing that I wasn't born rich. I do like making things, taking raw materials and infusing them with ideas until I can savor the finished product. The problem is that it's too difficult sometimes to apply that theory to what's required of me rather than what's voluntary.