#leave the typos. Or don’t. Fuck it Megan’s advice is to “give less fucks.” Good advice wrt relaxing and not getting so twisted up. Especially applicable to dumb computer crap where THE PROBLEM IS THE PROBLEM. Fuck perfecting the system. Fuck whether or not you can change the default font in Wird for iOS (you can’t). Fuck the decision to use windows or mac. Fuck wasting time reinstalling everything. Fuck Linux too. Fuck agonizing over whether or not to buy yet another app to streamline the writing process that you’re never going to use because you don’t have the energy left over to write, after Fucking around with the computer all Fucking day. Fuck it. Fuck all of it. Just type and do research and email your students. Save the shit anywhere. Give it a title. Put the date in it. Oh and btw, perhaps most especially, fuck fetishizing all this precious simplicity. It’s a mirror of itself, and your neocortex is about to leave a painful nose grease print, ha ha, the jokes on you, hope you enjoyed your little fun house excursion. Be a big kid. Go upside down in the rotating canister on the way out. The alphabet. Says the old timer. Now those were the days. (2016)