i'm thinking about applying to mountaineering school this year. it's weekend
outings and weekday evening classroom sessions, plus a structured training
regimen, for four months. the graduation trip is on my birthday.

i've been feeling increasingly frustrated with my physical condition, because
i'm not getting closer to my goals. i spent a weekend climbing with a bunch of
new people, and it reminded me that there's always more work to be done, and
that it's up to me to find ways to squeeze it in with the rest of my life.

i'm taking an anthropology class with a professor that's new to me, and it's
kind of exciting.

i'm sketching out a few ideas for new photo projects. i'm considering giving
myself permission to officially shelve some old photo projects that have
obviously stalled, so i can move on.

life is complicated. planning is hard. i always feel like i'm running out of
time.

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hey! you know what i just remembered exists? the tilde town collaborative twine
that a bunch of us worked on a while back! according to my records, i started
writing for it in *january 2015*.

i've been thinking about collaboration a lot lately, and sketching out a few
ideas for things i want to try out.

here's my old blog entry from 5 january 2015:

   > friends, i am really excited about collaboration. i am even more excited
   > about disorganized, incidental, and mysterious collaboration. this is the
   > main draw of tildeverse for me.
   >
   > i like when things have just enough structure to create the idea of a
   > context, but not enough structure to dictate exact terms of interaction. i
   > like examining patterns of what people do and i like thinking about what
   > sort of things can be built from those patterns that are greater than what
   > anyone things is possible.
   >
   > i like when indirect actions are more meaningful than direct actions.
   > [nethack empire](http://tilde.town/~endorphant/nethackempire.html) is only
   > the beginning of scratching this itch; i am slowly learning more about what
   > this could become.
   >
   > i learned about the [tilde town twine](http://tilde.town/~jumblesale/twine)
   > today, thanks to ~krowbar in irc earlier, and it is making my brain pace
   > restlessly. i want to build a metaverse. of what verse it will be meta-ing,
   > i am not yet sure.
   >
   > thanks for being here, everyone. thanks for being here and doing things and
   > thinking about them.

i'm all about constant personal growth. i can feel good about what i've learned
in the past year and a half since then.