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Gus

Finally understand why I was hungry for thirty years.

Stirling, UK · Stirling, forty-six, chef turned school cook, finally understands why he was hungry for thirty years.

Their journal

46 entries, and Gus is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Saturday 14 Mar 2026week 91content energy 33 replies

    Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. Nothing happened again. I…

  • Strangers

    Thursday 9 Oct 2025week 69raw energy 1

    A gentle week, mostly. Clothes shopping was worse, not better. I sat in the car afterwards for twenty minutes. A hard month when a colleague commented. Somebody said I looked…

  • Into town and back

    Monday 19 May 2025week 48grateful energy 13 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Walked up Dumyat with his son. Swam. First…

  • A plain question

    Monday 31 Mar 2025week 41steady energy 53 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Spread it across…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Sunday 23 Mar 2025week 40held energy 24 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a…

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15 Jul 2026 — What are you tired of?

I could not eat anything today and I am starting to be frightened by that. Going to ring the surgery in the morning.

2 Jul 2026 — What would a good week look like from here?

Ordinary time, at last. That took a while.

22 Jun 2026 — What are you grateful to your body for?

Hard question. I liked my body before as well, actually, and I am tired of the assumption that I did not.

19 Jun 2026 — What do you do when the day gets away from you?

Sorted a repeat prescription that has been on my list since Easter.

Buddy

ongoingA hard stretch

The fortnight one of us was in hospital

Carl was admitted for something entirely unrelated and Gus kept writing into the silence for eleven days without asking for anything back.

Carl and Gus · since December 2024