Twelve-week creativity workshop!

I like the artist's date thing a lot, though it's hard to say how much it's actually had an effect beyond "Well, that was a nice hour." It's a good way to trick myself into doing fun things. So far, I've gone to the arboretum, hung out in the periodicals section of the library, and visited a clothing / hipster stationary store. I like clothes on other people, but shopping for clothes is a huge anxiety pit for me, so I just went to the store and looked at some nice clothes without any expectation of buying or trying them on. It was fun and I didn't feel terrible after. I'm probably going to declare "getting a haircut" my artist's date for this week. It's sort of cheating because I wanted to get a haircut anyway, but *shrug* I've been busy.