There are periods where I like making music as sort of a distraction from other things, and periods where it feels like a worthy end in and of itself. There are periods where I tell myself that it's something I should do whether I feel like it or not.

Sometimes what I find myself doing naturally and what I tell myself I should be doing are the same, and those are good times.

Right now I don't feel like doing much of anything, and I don't know what to tell myself.

Maybe it's okay to push myself less when I feel burnt out.

Wait a minute, that's not a maybe; I already know this. I've learned this at least twice already. Why do I keep forgetting it?

So maybe it's time to do whatever I feel like until I find myself caught in the flow again. The trick is to let this happen without thinking about it too hard, lest "what I feel like" become a task I feel pressured to do.

The one thing I've been doing sucessfully is 3D-printing a lot of stuff. I still intend to make that mostly-auto-generated 'stuff I've been 3D printing lately' entry at some point.

Current incomplete music: Depressive Ambient Pathological Demand Avoidance 2602 [more extended].