I'm Starting a New Puzzle. But I'm not gonna finish it, probably. I hardly ever do. Finish a puzzle, that is. I wonder why that is? Could it stem from an unwillingness to complete a project, knowing success will only leave me empty and void of an immediate purpose, adrift, crawling around my apartment until I can find a drawer to avoid cleaning or the bed to never make?
No, I don't think so.
My favorite puzzles are the ones that are cool pictures. Kinda basic, kinda "first thought", but so what.
The puzzle has hot air balloons, and I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm not actually gonna start it anytime soon. I want to start it, but more so wanted a catchy blog post title.
I watch a puzzle YouTuber sometimes, Karen Puzzles, who has a rabid fanbase. She went to the national puzzle competition and there was a 6-hour YouTube live stream put on by the USA Jigsaw Puzzle Association, and all the comments were "Show Karen Puzzles! Where's Karen!? We want Karen Puzzles!" Like... sorry folks, you'll get your Karen Puzzles fill, but forgive me for wanting to check in on the frontrunners! Put some respect on Sarah Schuler and Dawne Rasmusson.
In college, I had a months-long phase where every day I would go to the Fine Arts building (either before improv practice, between classes, or to kill time before an obligation on campus), sit on the couches, take out my laptop, and do the daily puzzle on jigzone.com while the ballroom dance club trickled in to practice in the hallway. I can't tell if they were good at ballroom dance or not but I think they were all at least fine.
Fine Arts is one of those buildings that's a maze. Most buildings are, but that doesn't mean this one wasn't. And eventually, you realize that maze is really just one big loop and then like 2 hallways that branch off. It wasn't that hard. That's sort of a metaphor for something, TBD what, maybe I haven't learned that in life yet. I saw in an interview recently Drew Barrymore was doing that she said she doesn't really like kids or teen or young adult romance plots because she's already learned the lessons the characters are learning and now I worry that nobody older than me will ever respect me because they've already learned what I'm learning and don't care to watch me learn it. Sorry to disappoint you, Drew.
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