digital art

I'm in a hotel and I'm exhausted but I have to work on some digital art shit. Moans and groans. It's more important than this, since because journaling online doesn't make me money. I'm trying to keep the routine up.

a little travel earlier

A friend needs my help with an event tomorrow, so I drove into town, worked on my laptop in his office, and then drove us both to the hotel. I've been told younger Gen Z people don't use the ice bucket much, because they don't drink as much. I suppose drinking might not have as much allure, with how easy it is to find alcohol at a neighborhood brewery, amidst white families playing cornhole and walking their dogs. Edibles are The Thing for a lot of my friends, but drinking happens at parties. Maybe people just don't have one night stands involving hotels as much as they used to. Who can afford to do that at a hotel each time anyway...

I'm at a hotel to help my friend with a disability-related event. I've helped with this event before in past years, so there's a little bit of mundane satisfaction to gossipping about how the event has changed. I'm sure a lot of important conversations will happen tomorrow, and I'm always honored when I can be part of that or help somehow. But I also just like being around people in general. I am excited to talk about the food, to find out whether the air conditioning situation will be favorable for us this year, to see if the keynote feels pertinent and timely, all this kind of stuff that isn't really the main point of it. Also just to see who else shows. I get myself through difficult parts of volunteering or helping people by reminding myself it's important, but I get ENJOYMENT out of just being in a place with lots of different people.

Headache and Backache

The driving and the everything else has my head and back hurting, so I'm gonna go to bed soon.