Soccer

created: 2022.07.18. 16:16 · modified: 2022.07.22. 16:19 ·  · license

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It’s been far too long since I posted The Number Devil, so I thought I’d write something.

It’s not that I haven’t been writing. Once I got past a brief spell of laziness after the semester ended, I wrote drafts on several topics, but none seemed good enough to post. I’ll polish up a few and post them soon. Writing is best when inspiration strikes and you can toss the words onto the page like stir-frying bean sprouts, but I seem to be a little short on that inspiration lately.

I just got back from playing soccer. I can’t remember the last time we had enough people for a full game at school. I’d been making do with futsal, but wow, playing soccer again after so long was incomparably more fun.

I wonder if everyone’s like this, but I seem to write best when my head isn’t quite right—late at night, say, or when I’m dazed after intense exercise. Right now, it’s both! Of course, the quality sometimes suffers, and some parts make me cringe, so I have to revise them later with a clear head. The important thing is to get a draft down first.

These days I’m doing a lab internship in the industrial design department. I’m not planning to go to graduate school. On the last day of the spring semester, I went to a KLMS workshop at school, where a professor and a graduate student I met asked if I could help with the technical implementation of their lab’s research. So I’m working with them over the break. That means I’m in Daejeon Monday through Thursday and Seoul Friday through Sunday, for anyone who wants to meet up.