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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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Lately, I've been feeling a certain staleness in writing these entries. This is mostly because my emotions have been stable, and while it's a welcome season in my life, I can't...
Early yesterday afternoon, I fell asleep and slept throughout the rest of the entire day and through the night. That antipsychotic I took the night before really wiped me out. I...
When I went to the gym yesterday, I finally decided to do some strength training. I was a bit nervous to start since I didn't know how I'd fare. Things ended up going well...
CHECK OUT SOMNIA, A NOVEL | NEW CHAPTERS (ALMOST) DAILY I've finally gotten the ball rolling on Somnia. It's a project I've been stewing on for a while, and I finally feel like,...
I think I've been struggling with standards lately. I say this because I'm not attending Divine Liturgy today. Instead, I decided to stay home and write. There were a lot of...
"It is written that man will not live by bread alone, but by every word from the mouth of God." Life has been good lately, but I still deal with fear. It's not an irrational...
A poem I'm the writing on the walls I'm nothing at all I'm the ghost you keep on seeing I'm the check you never cashed I'm the thing you keep putting off I'm the thing you keep...
A few months back, I discovered the idea of chaos magick and have been thinking about it a lot in spurts since then. In chaos magick, the main idea behind it is that one can...
A thread I've been weaving lately: the consequences of cognitive warfare have completely changed the way we interact with the world. To throw out a phrase like "cognitive...
I've been on Mounjaro for three weeks now, and just had my week four dose today. People keep calling it a miracle drug, and they're not far off. Many of my current health...
I still feel gross from my flu, but I'm about 90% recovered. It's been tough getting up in the mornings, but that's nothing new. The best strategy I've found that consistently...
I've been feeling better from my flu, but not fully. It makes writing here an even tougher task, but I know that once I get the ball rolling, I'll finish out just fine. Even...
Late Friday evening, I caught the flu. I've been sick as a dog ever since. Yesterday, I slept for the entire day. While asleep, I kept cycling through different nightmares and...
I started a new project last night. I plan on releasing it later today. My life has been a series of these vignettes since I started Cogito. I feel myself continuing to refine...
Over the last day or so, I've noticed a major increase in my mood. Most would interpret that to mean I’m feeling happier, but for me, it’s a different sensation. Instead of...