Sleep Token dropped this beauty on April 3, and I have been listening to it nonstop since the YouTube premiere:

A little bit different lyrically that “Emergence,” a lot more personal and it hit me straight in the feels, but it makes me even more excited for what the album is going to sound like when it comes out on May 9. These gentlemen are so talented – it’s hard for me to wrap my head around sometimes.

One of my goals for 2025 was to take better care of myself. I have been feeling the weight of burnout for some time now, and I finally was able to push past my anxiety and the whole “the office will implode if I’m not there” mental gymnastics I do on myself, and I booked some time off. It’s on Easter weekend, so I will only actually be missing 2 days of work, but it’s going to be a solid chunk of time where I can just… be, and reconnect with myself and not have to worry about so-and-so forgetting their prescription or whoever needing to see the doctor right now.

It’s going to be glorious, and I will take nothing less. I’m going to get out into the sun, into the backyard and clear it up, and I’m going to finally get a hold of the tornado that’s moved through my home in the last little while. I’ve already encountered the “it’s not really a holiday if you’re just going to work around at home” and while I would have agreed with that sentiment 10 years ago, now I find that I enjoy being productive and working around my home. While bed rotting does serve as a lovely thing every once and awhile, if I did that all of the time, I would get bored and angry and develop a migraine. Not so much fun.

To be completely honest, I think I’m closer to burnout that I’d care to admit. I feel the weight of it all the time, even now as I’m writing this.

The only good thing that’s happened in the last couple of weeks is that I am feeling the poetry juices flowing again. I’ve written something that I quite like, and once I hammer out a few of the lines so that it flows a bit better, I’ll add it to the “Writings” section.

I hope this opens the floodgates a little bit. We’ll see. 🙂