Alaska & DFW

Late the other night I researched small resorts and restaurants on the coast of Juneau in Alaska. I’m sure their peak tourism season is coming to a close. I researched apartments and furnished rooms on Craigslist and did a meta search of flight prices one way. I spent a good forty-five minutes doing this.

A lot of the time, I feel like I want to find my own little perfect hole in the world that I can disappear into and live quietly with no distractions and just experience.

Tonight, I’m re-watching the melodrama and highly fictionalized David Foster Wallace film, The End of the Tour. I’m just past the part where he’s at the Mall of America after doing a radio interview in the Midwest and says to Jesse Eisenberg in the food court when asked about loneliness and Infinite Jest, “I think that if there’s this sort of sadness for people under forty-five it has something to do with pleasure and achievement and entertainment, like this sort of emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on…”

Goodnight.