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Compiled from hundreds of responses from Everything Changes-ers to the question “What are you thinking about right now?”

It’s a THOUGHT CLOCK. Every time stamp and new row here represents a thought someone submitted.

Thank you to everyone who responded. If you don't subscribe to Everything Changes, do that here: http://tinyletter.com/everythingchanges
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0:01How awkward it is to tell older men my age when they ask. I wish they didn't ask. It was a professional setting- so what?
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0:03"Is Michael going to respond to him, or should I?"
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0:06David Carr, and how someone at work just sent out an email about how his daughter was born, and feeling a weird (and dark) but kind of calming balance in that
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0:07Who counts as OG?
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0:09I moved to South Korea six months ago. I was thinking about finally sending my parents the picture my school took of me. It's there on the desk, all it would take is for me to import it to my computer and click a button. Maybe tomorrow.
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0:13I was thinking about how the mistakes I made nearly 7 years ago have followed me around like the grim reaper barring me from getting a better job while at the same time making me the man I am today. A tug of war battle between demons and personal development weighs on me like a thousand pound anvil resting firmly on my chest.
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0:18How brilliant this piece was:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/business/media/sowing-mayhem-one-click-at-a-time.html?_r=0

I'm not much of a media person, but I admired Carr for standing up against CJ there. I wish there were more voices like his.
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0:25Bills.
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0:28My mom who just passed away
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0:28About how long I should wait for an editor to write me back before I send another email.
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0:29I want to watch nightcrawler
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0:33How much I enjoy being home alone in the afternoon on a weekday.
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0:44Men: just how much space do they need, exactly?
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0:44Am I going to be hungover tomorrow?
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0:45I was thinking about an article on Grist about what to do with old electrical appliances that are still functional. They often go down in the basement where they are used along with new ones upstairs.
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0:46Instantaneous mental gratification.
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0:47I can't think fast enough to encompass all the knowledge I desire.
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0:47When does it all end?
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0:48No.
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1:12Was just wondering how I would react to and handle an emergency evacuation order, by my government, from a crisis area in the foreign land in which I currently reside.
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1:20I was thinking about having a smoke (after having quit approximately 12 hours ago, sigh).
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1:25Synesthesia -- I was wondering if my FB post about one of the types I share with my son would get any response from people who also have synesthesia. I've only met a couple of people who know what it is, and with the exception of my two kids, I don't know anyone else who has it.
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1:26This. http://nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html
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1:28cast iron skillets.
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1:33Whether my girl crush's girlfriend likes me.
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1:45I was just thinking about how I wish I hadn't been so entitled straight out of college.
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1:48That I still have not seen Hotel Budapest.
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1:49That David Byrne track with Dizzee Rascal, "Toe Jam".
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1:52My ex
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2:10Getting up
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2:11The possibility of Putin's regime collapsing
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2:14I should stop using my wife's credit card for joint purchases because I know she doesn't like having to do the admin but it's the only card on my PayPal account and I NEVER seem to have any cards lying around when the time comes to pay for something on eBay.
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2:22Im wondering if psychedelics would help my depression.
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2:40Stomach fou
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2:48Smoking and how I've saved money by quitting but don't want anything except a cigarette.
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2:51Politics on my local housing estate board
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2:52I need to stop reading Twitter. It only leads to unhappiness.
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2:54A girl, on the other side of the world.
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3:08I'm thinking about this concert/performance I went to last night and the review I just read of it (I'd link you, but it's in Norwegian, I assume you don't know that? Who knows though, these days), which proved to me why it's a bad thing that reporters have to write reviews immediately after the performance ends: it got the basic premises right (the concert was amazing, yes), but the language used to describe it made it sound trite and overwrought, full of pathos where there was nuance, etc. It made me sad, because I wish someone could put into words exactly what happened on that stage, but I guess there isn't time for thinking things through when you need to publish asap. (I don't think everything was better before, newswise, but some things were. And I'll stop that thought there.)

Also I was annoyed at myself for accidentally deleting the first of these What were you thinking about?-emails, but I did learn that if you use the Mail-app on the iPhone, it will delete emails if you swipe too far left (I only meant to add it to my mailinglist-filter, but instead I deleted it, twice, from both the inbox and the trash can. I was suitably impressed).

And now I'm wondering if there really is any point to saying so many words to a stranger, on a mailing list I only recently joined, when I don't know what the purpose of it all is. I think maybe a decade and a half of blogging makes me more likely to not assume ill intent in questions like these, but that's the sort of thought I think I'll let lie (I only slept for four hours last night, because I was on a concert-high and that was a horrible idea, but it's not like I could skip work, so here I am, and I'm not dead yet, but I might fall asleep at my desk).

And I hope you have a good weekend! (I listened to Dar Williams on my way to work, on shuffle, and my iPod played the song "Better Days" and it is lovely. So many of her songs are lovely. And I've been listening to her again this week because something – I still don't know what – in Taylor Swift's song "22" made me think of "As Cool As I Am". I don't know if that's the kind of reference you'll get, but if you do, maybe you'll see why they might strike one as similar? I'll stop talking at you now, this is what happens when I don't sleep.)
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3:13I hope my boss has a rad Valentine's Day
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3:17nut rage
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3:44I was thinking about how there isn't enough time in the day to get done all the things I want to do.
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4:08do i need a new face serum
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4:16About how a new follower of mine on a social network’s last name means “upfuck” in Croatian...
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4:24Why she keeps asking me to come over
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4:48cats hating on dogs
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4:50How sad it was that the original members of Kraftwerk all fell out... (just finished reading “I was a Robot” by Wolfgang Flur)... sometimes it’s definitely best not to hear the truth about ones heroes......
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4:52How I can be better and get to my weight loss goal faster but in an achievable manner, I don't want to fail again.
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5:07If the best place to print a book should be the less distant from home
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5:08Laundry baskets
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5:09I was thinking about the pub that we're going to be eating in tonight, which is really highly acclaimed, and wondering if my husband would get a call from work while we were there which is totally possible and I won't mind because they time we start dinner tonight is earlier than the time I usually leave work, how does he put up with those stupid hours I do, maybe the same reason I do which is the money which is good and which allows us to do things like travel 300 miles north just to eat good food and stay in hotels and I can't wait and it's his birthday and I love him so much
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5:14My father
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5:41I was thinking about how I wish Slack didn't show when people were typing. So much pressure!
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5:52A teaspoon of honey makes Pronutro much more palatable.
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5:56How much I felt being a pretender, an impostor at my current -new- job.
How much time I have been spending trying to hide that.
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5:58Unsubscribing from newsletters
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6:03Need more sleep
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6:11This Quora conversation could help to get in touch with a journalist I love.
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6:25Friends, to do list, breakfast
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7:02A phone interview today
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7:02apartment hunting
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7:03wow. i have a crap load of email to get through, from the past couple of days!
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7:07Brian Stelter
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7:19Hold cold my unmittened hand is.
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7:34Getting paid
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7:37I wonder what percent of songs on that playlist are by black men
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7:37I volunteer my social media skills for a few causes. So I was thinking, Christ, I have to set up Twitter and instead I'm reading emails...
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7:41THE SNOW.

(I'm in Boston. Snow fatigue.)
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7:45How much I love breakfast.
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7:56Wondering if the housekeeping staff failing to clean the hotel room can be parlayed into an upgrade to a suite or maybe a free danish at breakfast tomorrow.
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7:57Why am I so lonely?
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7:58Skipping work because it's too cold.
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8:01Coordinating field logistics for some Alaskan volcano research.
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8:06I'm late.
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8:07Gilmore Girls
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8:08I was thinking about whether or not to remove a paragraph from an essay that's due tonight. I would rather try to get it right than take it out, but I don't think I have time.
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8:08How annoying Republicans at the FEC are going to be today
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8:08flowers
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8:08Whether I should move to Texas.
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8:08Red measles and grey sneakers.
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8:08I was accepted to present a paper at a conference in Sweden, but neither my department or I can afford the airfare :(
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8:08the story i'm working on about going to prison
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8:08My lover on the other side of the Atlantic.
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8:08how much I don't want to even finish this essay.

I got up early to write it, and I'm only a few hundred words short of having the actual word count, but my college sleep cycle rejects it. I don't know where to cave, but either way, I'm skipping this class.
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8:09My cat's dirty ears; menstrual cramps.
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8:09re-reading some sexts.
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8:09The last developer to work on this project was either extraordinarily lazy, or knows something I don't. Either way, this error message won't go away.
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8:09How it's hard to convince friends to care that racism still permeates and hurts lots of people.
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8:09How long I can keep my guardian portal.
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8:09making a budget because i am buying a house.
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8:09Mardi Gras.
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8:09Designing landscapes for snow storage
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8:10I was thinking about catching up with a friend over my lunchbreak
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8:10Is 2 too young to roller skate?
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8:10Why am I unable to do any work when I claim I'm 'working from home' (as I am today)?
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8:10I wonder if I have any email.
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8:10IM SO TIRED
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8:10I cannot effing do this.
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8:11Worried about my girlfriend's health.