December 9th, 2023. Woke up later than I wanted on account of sleeping late last night. Got ready for my interview with Alicia Guo about using AI for writing, headphones on, entered the Zoom, verbal interview lasted for about 35 minutes and the remainder of the interview was a working demo in Loomsidian. I generated a segment about Ariadne Cordova of the SEER project being interviewed by this journalist named Blake, but didn't explicitly get the prompt down -- just the back and forth. I actively pruned branches and added more to the draft when I needed to. I talked about ownership (I'll always credit cd2), aligning the AI with how I want the story to go, nonfiction vs. fiction. The meeting wrapped up around 12:35 and I ended with a final comment about energy constraints and how cd2 got me back to thinking and less fussing over the "correct" arrangement of words. Later I was starving so I had a bite of lasagna from dinner yesterday and a green apple. Another Futurama episode. I had coffee a little later, at 1:07pm or so. 1zpresso + AeroPress. Good well-extracted brew but a touch more bitterness than I expected. Around 3:30 I checked Amazon on a whim and saw that the Ode Gen 2 was on sale for 20% off and I realized now was the time to send it off. I grabbed the shipping box and the original packing box, cleaned out the grinds from my Opus grinder with my cute little bulb syringe and a soft towel, and packed almost everything back in. I didn't quite get the top paper-cardboard section on since it bulged so I decided to put it off to the side and got it in the mailing box. From there it was a 8 or so minutes drive into Fremont, on a city street, to the UPS store. I waited a few minutes, the employee scanned my package, and I was good to go. I missed a U-turn but turned into a small neighborhood and headed back out, driving slightly faster this way. At home I didn't get the refund from Amazon immediately -- it would be a few weeks -- but I bought the Ode Gen 2 (and a few more Hario 03 filters) ASAP. Tried some more programming problems. After that, everything gets gooey. I took a series of naps over an hour and a half at 5, and at 6:30 waking up from bright dreams of the near future I genuinely felt like a different person. There was very little on my mind waking up. I tried working on more programming problems for another 25 minutes and had dinner. Grandma made some tofu pork bean sprout stirfry and reheated the last bit of bittermelon soup from last night -- very very filling. After that I chipped at a couple other programming questions and intermittently worked on my PSYC 3 assignment. Some Twitter, some more Futurama, felt more normal after dinner. Looking forward to possible breakfast tomorrow.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391