Where I was for all of May.

Hello again, to anybody out there who actually follows this blog. (Just for clarity I doubt anybody does, but if you actually do, thank you.) "So, Jarred, where have you been?" I hear you ask. Well, I set myself a challenge. I chose to re-watch all 33 of my #1 movies from every year of my lifetime so far, and to maintain continuity, I resisted watching any other movies in that time. That was why, until yesterday, I posted no new reviews here (or anywhere else, for that matter). Naturally, I'd seen most of the older movies in that group far more times than most of the newer ones, and due to several factors unrelated to the films themselves, I actually nodded off during a few of them and then had to resume them later from roughly where I'd fallen asleep (one of them, believe it or not, which I fell asleep during was Star Wars: The Force Awakens). That left me frustrated with myself.

It was also a good challenge in that, while I always knew beforehand what I'd be watching the next day, on certain days I had to alter my routine to fit them in, and somebody like me can become too dependent on routine. Most particularly, on the day when I was set to watch The Wolf of Wall Street, a three-hour film, I had social activities on that morning and then had to wait until after 4pm, when the female cleaner who cleans my unit, had finished her shift because I really didn't want to risk making her uncomfortable by watching a movie in which Leonardo DiCaprio snorts drugs off a naked woman's body (among other immoral acts) in her presence. Then I had to cook dinner at 7pm, the time when I usually eat it.

Anyhow, I completed that self-imposed challenge and I don't regret undertaking it. That's, however, the only unusual thing that's happened to me lately and nothing really negative has occurred recently. I've also maintained writing poetry and, come to think of it, I've found a new special outdoor place locally where I've already returned a couple of times; last time I actually composed a new poem there. So overall, recently my life has been as varied as it's been stable.