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One of the first jobs I had in mental health was working in a substance abuse treatment center. There are different kinds of substance abuse treatment centers. Some are like luxury spas; the people you find being treated there are members of wealthy families. The treatment center I worked in

I felt like I needed to change things up a bit, so rather than writing first thing in the morning, I did other things. One of the things I did was take a walk in the cold. It was 14 degrees Fahrenheit-10 Celsius, and there was a wind. The walk

Very early It is 5:27 am as I write this. I've managed to make my body get out of a warm bed. I can look out the window and see Christmas lights on homes, which is a pleasant thing to look at as my body adjusts to

The end of the semester is here, and so is all of the frantic activity and stress that comes with the end of a semester. Yesterday was a crazy busy day. As soon as I was awake, I was getting things done. Any "free time" was used to

When I started writing AM⌭PM, the goal was to write something every day. The simple plan was to write something every morning and write something every evening. I quickly learned that writing in the morning is not a problem. But writing something in the evening is a challenge for

The last AM⌭PM I sent out [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/am-pm-009/]was a mess. It had spelling errors in it! I'm embarrassed. This may be some ad hoc reasoning: I wrote AM⌭PM | 009 [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/am-pm-009/] on a Saturday. I usually don't

Early My family and I are staying at my in-law's lake house, which is a beautiful place. I woke up at about 5:45 am today and started to write at 6:07 am. Soon other people will wake up. The plan is to make pancakes. I'

I'm writing this mid-afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving. After breakfast, my oldest son (2.5 years old) and I started to brink up Christmas decorations from our basement. Then we spent time getting our (fake) tree up and decorating it with the rest of the family. As we

Early in the morning I started to write this at 5:31 am. I have not used an alarm very much for the better part of the past two and a half years. This is because small children, who are often allowed (and encouraged!) to take naps during the day,