Bending Time

Just Julia · Oct 21, 2026 · 4m · transcript

A strange thing has been happening to me lately.

I keep losing afternoons.

I sit down in the morning intending to write something. One idea leads to another, so I start researching. Then I find myself opening another document because a sentence has suddenly taken me somewhere else, changing something I created the day before, or following an idea just to see where it goes.

Eventually I look at the clock.

Three o’clock.

And for a few seconds I genuinely cannot understand how that happened.

This may sound completely ordinary to someone who has always loved what she does. To me, it is not.

I…