although my job involves many things, the one that takes up the most time is transcribing interviews from audio tape. these tapes are full of information on dealings in the financial world, real estate companies, the intricacies of offshore insurance agencies and the tax regimes that support them. it is, for a photography and creative writing major, profoundly boring. the nice thing is that though i have to listen carefully and type exactly what i hear, i don’t have to listen with active attention. this leaves the consciousness free to go traveling.
i highly recommend repetitive tasks like transcription to recover memories… for me it only goes back to things that happened in my late teens, but i am constantly reliving brief stretches of long forgotten experiences. for the first couple of months, i wrote them all down, but that became exhausting, so now i just make little notes when a memory is especially strong.
maybe i should post a list.
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