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A light one and a serious one ...

That sudden feeling when you become bored with eating a big salad.

A sense of nostalgia/longing to be a part of someone's past before you met them.

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1. That feeling of change that comes after an interaction with a stranger, where in that moment you felt intimately connected to them while soaking in the knowledge that you will, in all likelihood, never see them again.

A few instances come to mind - one time I was on a bus that took a different route, and a stranger from out of town asked me where the train station was. We ended up walking together, making conversation, discussing silly incidents from our recent lives. We ended with the classic nice to meet you, goodbye, get home safe - but only after was I confronted by how personal and strange and heartwarming it all was. There should be a word - sonder, but getting a deeper glimpse into a stranger's life. and then becoming strangers again.

2. In the Netflix movie 'Set it Up,' they describe the phenomena of being early - and then just *wasting time* and ending up being late to the event as a result.

As said in the show, "I got here so early that I thought had time to dick around then I went to that gift shop, then I lost track of time and suddenly I was late. It's the over-dick-around thing. I over-dicked it."

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Aug 10, 2021Liked by Rob Walker

The feeling on a Sunday evening knowing that nothing is due or owed on Monday.

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Sep 15, 2021Liked by Rob Walker

Missing word. verb.

The act of clicking on someone else's slack/email/powerpoint/etc that they're sharing in Zoom, to be followed by frustration, bewilderment, and eventually chagrin.

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Aug 21, 2021Liked by Rob Walker

That feeling in the half second between when you've stubbed your toe and the pain arrives.

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Aug 12, 2021Liked by Rob Walker

The realization that your meetings and commitments, for whatever reason, are cancelled, and you are now relishing the idea of doing the work you've had to put off. (It's not escaping work, but it's escaping the bureaucracy that keeps you from doing the work at a pace that allows you to fully engage it.)

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Aug 10, 2021Liked by Rob Walker

Missing word possibilities:

Penitrashia: Penitence + trash

Garbalgia. Garbage + nostalgia (probably a better word for that sinking feeling in the stomach when you realize you threw away something you meant to keep, or suddenly find a need for after thinking it was worthless and sending it off in the truck because you did get the can to the curb in time)

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Aug 9, 2021Liked by Rob Walker

I just watched Jay Myself (it was available for free to me as a library cardholder, via Hoopla, YMMV of course) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8890074/

It's about the famed photographer Jay Maisel (admittedly I wasn't familiar with his work) who has spent 50 years living and working in a 6 floor building in NYC on the Bowery, and is preparing to move out. There are many many provocative and relevant-to-readers moments in the movie; a lot of discussion about noticing, being able to SEE. There is a question that comes up - do you like photographs or do you like taking photographs, choose only one. He is in the latter (as am I -- sidenote the Q last week about visiting a new city made me think about for me, when I would be able to visit a new city and then go walk around and FIND things to take pictures of, how incredibly soothing that could be) but he is amazing at what he is able to produce, but for him, it's secondary. He also - and they didn't fully connect the dots here - is obsessed with found objects that might possibly be useful for something he would create, and you can see what that obsession is, taken to a hoarding level, but without the constraints of the homes we live in so it doesn't manifest as something "unhealthy" for the most part.

There was some great stuff about color, which comes from Maisel studying under Josef Albers, where the color of something is entirely subjective to the context in which its presented.

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