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Noahie Valk
Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings. Divided into two sections. 1) Cogito: a diary and 2) IOKTIKN: a collection of standalone essays and short stories.
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I slept all day yesterday, went to bed at 9 PM, and have gone through most of the day still tired. What can I say? I'm a sleepy guy. Anyway, things are feeling a bit dull today....
Lots of driving today. Fuck driving, man, seriously. I had another medical appointment today for my SSDI benefits application. It's been about two and a half years now, still...
Things have been low stress, which I attribute to more frequently taking my Olanzapine. I've been on pretty much all the antipsychotics on the market, and Olanzapine seems to be...
It seems that we've been bitten by a certain bug, one that takes any sense of meaning and truth and tries to reject it for the sake of something different. With our ability to...
Check out my new crossword blog! I've been feeling half-baked, semi-processed if you will. A good day is one that's tough to acknowledge for me sometimes. There's a part of me...
Web browsers are awesome. They let you see all kinds of cool and interesting stuff, connect with interesting people, and are—whether we want it to be or not—a central part of...
A term I keep coming back to over the course of my life is collective effervescence. You know that bubbly feeling you get at a really good concert or when the DJ at a party...
I've found that some of my most productive writing is done in heightened emotional states, and that's scary to consider. Today feels calm, and it feels like it's going to be a...
Many sites have an RSS feed. Mine has three. Don't know what RSS is? I got you covered. You thought I was gonna try to persuade you to use RSS? Ha, rookie mistake, kiddo. Even...
Today's post is a submission to the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly event where folks on the IndieWeb write a blog post dedicated to a theme hosted by one of the members. This...
Don't know what to do? Do nothing until you figure it out. Man, I sure love sitting around, doing nothing. It's awesome, perhaps the best use of my time. I think people give...
A series of scribbles from my many notebooks. 1 The tenant jostles his keys. The landlord must have changed the locks again. He goes to the landlord’s door to ask why he keeps...
I broke my fast last night. There were about ten leftover chicken tenders from dinner a few nights ago, and I ate all of them. Thankfully I didn't eat anything else after that,...
I've decided to make my sprints here an hour long now, but even when they were at 45 minutes, I tended to go toward a certain word count instead of writing the whole way through...
Today is day four of my fast. I'm officially under 300 pounds. This is basically a water fast. I'm allowing myself to drink water, coffee, and diet soda; I'm also letting myself...