Alright, I Think I Owe Y’all A New Deal

Just call me President Franklin "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” Roosevelt, cause I’m about to roll out a brand new deal for all of y’all would-be readers out there. 

It seems as though my energies as of late have been successfully directed toward the fruitful endeavor of writing on one of my big projects that we just talked about a few weeks ago. Which is great. Like, it’s been really, really great. 

I’ve also been the most tired I’ve ever been these past few weeks and am spending the bulk of my evenings in a brain dead state that has not gone unnoticed in my home life. There are trade offs to everything. 

Speaking of tradeoffs, we’re about to pen a whole new contract between me and you and you and me (well, that’s just the same thing but reversed), so let’s get into it.

Deal No. 1 

So, Deal No. 1 is pretty simple. If I do not update the blog for two weeks straight, I owe y’all a progress update. It’s that easy. Either I write a fresh, new, not at all exhausted topic article for the blog and really put my whole [refrains from ending the next word in -ussy] brain into it or I provide a fresh, new update on what I have been working on as of late. 

The goal of this deal is straightforward. Either I’m working on stuff that might one day see the light of day in the form of publication and thus can be shared with everyone in the English reading world (at first) or I’m working on some good ole mega bite-sized content that you’ve grown to expect from Recursive Thoughts, the name of this blog. 

Either way, I’m writing. It’s just a delayed gratification versus showing how little or how lot-le I’ve been pouring energy into one of the bigger projects. 

I intend to make good on this deal immediately later on in this very article. In fact, let’s get that out of the way.

Work-in-Progress Update No. 2

I’m calling this Update No. 2 because Update No. 1 happened in the previous article. You get it. We can number them along the way and keep track of how long it takes for me to finish something. It’s motivating! (Hopefully). 

This graph that you are about to see will look a little different from the previous one in only one regard because there’s only one project I’ve been working on kind of nonstop whenever I have down time (this is rare, there is no down time with a newborn). That being said, let’s look at our progress:

If you thought I’d make these more intelligible, you’re a fool.

Whoa! Look at G.J. Can we get a Good Job for G.J.? Yeah, so, G.J. jumped up bigly times thanks to a focused outpouring of effort to keep the writing machine going in a way that has felt almost but not quite effortless. I mean, it’s not effortless and let’s circle back to me being the most tired I’ve ever been as of late - it’s actually quite effortful - but the weird part is that it feels effortless.

I think I’ve reached a weird balance of brain dead/engaged where there’s not much room for that little critical voice in my head to interject and convince me to stop working. Now the only boundary that stops me from working is literally falling asleep at the keyboard or hitting a time limit, say like, 5 p.m. Wow, what a random time boundary to hit. 

But to put this into numbers that we can all appreciate, G.J. went from a barely 2.5 chapter baby at 9,900 words (rounding for clean numbers) to a much older but still young child of 5.5 chapters at 22,000 words (again, rounding).

That’s, uh, that’s pretty good if I ask myself (and I did, the answer is this article). 

Going Forward No. 3

Yeah, there’s not like, more deals or anything. I’m truly just counting. 

So here’s where that leaves us. Either you get a blog post or a progress update, but either way there will be something new on this blog every two weeks at a maximum. If I am somehow feeling more with it, the content will flow much more frequently than that, but speaking truth to power, I’ll need to get like another full hour of sleep a night to get to the level where I am churning out both semi-well written if not just entertaining articles as well as the fictional explorational adventures of the protagonist of G.J. 

I’m only human. And this human wakes up in the middle of the night on a nightly basis to feed his daughter a big ole bottle of milk so she’s not hungry and can fall back to sleep again. Which only sometimes leaves this human awake in the middle of the night unable to fall back asleep again himself, which is just sort of part of it. We move on, we move on. 

But that’s the new deal. I hope you find it fair because, well, it’s non-negotiable. Unless… But no… that would require some sort of… monetary… support… 

I could never. Really. 

Unless…

You’d be into it? What am I saying, of course not. With times as hard as they are and the economy and the historical stagnation of wages over the decades across the world, I could never in good faith ask for that sort of thing and I won’t ever do that.

Unless…

Nah.

Anyway, that’s the rub. I’ll keep you posted either with content or hopefully more just-as-impressive updates. If the update isn’t as impressive as this one, there’ll probably be a blog post instead. We gotta get the numbers up. These are rookie numbers. Wolf of Wallstreet, you get it (I’ve never seen it).