I’m studying a lot.
…Like over 100 pages into a notebook absolutely crammed, notated and highlighted within an inch of its life.
And I’m having a total wigging-out blast.
…Cuz “learning” is the all-the-time “sexy.” Just ask Einstein. Dude was a stone cold theory-flinging fox.
…Graham Bell gave some good brain too…
…But the best part about learning stuff is when you realize that the active process of doing it, is like the original version of the internet. In your head.
…Cuz “learning” is such a fucking black-hole process. You start out with a book on Picasso, and come up with a Google history, end-of-night, including everything from “cows of Peru,” “stained glass windows,” “famous nun affairs,” “African art influences,” “french prositution laws,” “Einstein theories,” “plastic arts,” “Francisco Franco,” “French Rivera,” “communist vs socialist,” “famous maquettes,” and “neo-expressionism” to…”Harlequin rose period,” and “Spanish civil war.”
The brain, when fed a suggestion of curiosity, goes on a total drunken bender for insta-knowledge as addendum to this other thing you’re actually trying to retain and process… until your Chrome has like 68 tabs open for cross referencing, your hand is getting writers cramp, you’ve reloaded the printer paper twice, and have totally run out of tape.
…It’s a good problem to have. When you like learning. Which I do. Only when you do it at this level of focus, it’s pretty fucking exhausting…making the eyes burn from bouncing back and forth, paper to screen…and forgetting to eat and drink things, cuz you were busy for like ten hours trying to find this one thing.
…But I digress.
…Not as much as the “alternate use for pickle juice” search (you’re welcome), or “scary Steven hawking quotes” (hey’ if I have to freak out, you have to freak out)…but still…
…It’s a thing.
And it’s been super fun.
…But I’m really tired now. and my contacts feel like sandpaper.
…So I guess that leaves this other stack of clippings for tomorrow.
…Except now I sorta wanna go Google Picasso. As he was totally not my actual topic of study at all…
~D
