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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 use LLMs to help edit my writing. For a long time, I had a ChatGPT Plus subscription. I stuck with ChatGPT because I was a fan of the memory feature, which kept coherence across threads. It was nice not only for working on writing...
Yesterday, I didn't write because I went back to Divine Liturgy after six months of absence. It felt good to be back. When I first attended services, my feet would hurt the whole time. I was so out of shape that I couldn't even stand for...
I started my timer, as is custom when I sit down to write. Usually, the timer sets off something in me that makes me able to come up with a structure for these entries on the fly, but this time I don't have much of a structure at all and...
I didn't get to write yesterday because I had a doctor's appointment. The day before yesterday, I scheduled the appointment because my cheap blood pressure machine at home told me I had a blood pressure of 155/100. I hadn't seen the...
Yesterday, I collapsed. I remember that after lunch, I took a nap and was just so upset at how tired I've been. I've been making progress with my CPAP. I'll put it on and can fall asleep with it, but can't keep the mask on throughout the...
Today I am six months nicotine-free. I never thought I'd make it this far, honestly. Every day it gets easier, but there are still many triggers. It's crazy how much I notice smoking in media I watch. Every time I see someone smoking a...
I've had a good morning so far. I finally figured out a good way to get morning and evening prayers back into my routine. I was originally reading prayers out of an Orthodox prayer book that I got when I visited a local parish. Reading...
I was texting some friends in a group chat earlier this morning. We've been pals since high school, nearly fifteen years at this point. On occasion, we'll talk about people we went to school with. There's been a lot that's happened to...
I'm awake, and so far my morning has been peaceful and routine. It always feels nice when things go the way we expect them to. I'm a bit upset though because I've still been dealing with more sleepiness and fatigue lately. Yesterday I...
I feel well today. Yesterday, I ended up taking a long afternoon nap. I was fine with doing that because my body was still a bit sore from drinking the night before. This morning, though, I feel better. I think I'll have to stop drinking...
Happy New Year, everyone! My New Year's Eve turned out well. It was a calm one. On Wednesdays, I typically go to trivia at a bar with my friends and this week, everyone who usually shows up had other plans. It ended up just being me, my...
Happy New Year's Eve, everyone! It's been a great year with Cogito, even though I only started publishing in August. I am proud of myself with maintaining a consistent practice here despite the ups and downs of life. Writing these...
Over the last few days, I've been dealing with remarkable amounts of fatigue. It's something that I deal with frequently, but is frustrating. I wake up some mornings and the only thing I can manage is to fall back asleep. I'll have these...
A fear that I have with writing these entries, especially at this frequency, is that I circle the same few topics over and over again and that I lack the ability to say anything unique with each entry. To me, this fear stems from much of...
I couldn't get any writing in yesterday because I spent the whole day asleep. I woke up in the morning, did my usual routine, and even after some caffeine, my body still urged me to go back to bed. I usually don't like going back to bed...