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GeePaw Hill

24 Nov, 6 tweets, 1 min read

A note to my followers who wonder what's up with music-tweets and ONI-tweets. I'm spozed to be this senior geekery theorist, but there's all this other noise. Let me position myself both a) in general, and b) in temporally specific.

a) I got to be a senior geekery theorist by opening my heart-mind. I follow my nose, into all sorts of weird seemingly unrelated things, you haven't even seen the worst of it yet. I believe, with Hofstadter, that analogy *is* cognition. I feed my geekery with ideas from all over.

b) For 25 years, I was diagnosed, therapped, medicated depressive. In remission 5 years now, no idea why/how. I discover I've seasonal affective disorder. I spend all year doing my client work so I can spend a quarter combining rest and the work I most love: making content.

The upshot? Tomorrow at noon I will be done with client work. I will take *ten* coun'tem *ten* days with no obligations. Cuz I'm chatty, I'll chat music & video games & art & trash-talk.

There'll be some geek-theory in there, for sure at least one muse, cuz that's one of the things I most love. But it ain't gonna be my main play. My main play is gonna be rest and music and chatter.

I love that the world has made me be able to do this.

And I love that some of you, so many, are willing to take the noise with the signal.

Truly, I am the luckiest person I have ever known.

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Especially, though, they're not universal.

They're custom to the victim.

This is one of mine.

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Sing this to them.

It's good for the trees and it's good for you.

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