day's stream

School today. Woke up early, AeroPressed out my cold brew genmaicha with some effort, genmaicha always feels a little resistant in the AeroPress for whatever reason (could be the roasted rice). Into the red water bottle it went with some ice. I grabbed my RP with the 28mm (but unfortunately didn't take any photos) and headed out. I tried out my sunglasses and they worked just fine and improved the contrast quite well, but I wondered what it would do to my eye sensitivity, since I tend to squint even on ordinary days. Possibly from spending too much time inside I imagine. In any event, Poli 1 was just fine and my exam came back with a 91/100(!!). I was for sure I would've gotten a 75 since I didn't answer the proposition questions too well, so this was a pleasant surprise. Humi 1 at the ATC, L73 was closed today. Prof. Sal mainly covered Experiment 4 which was quite bittersweet since I decided to forfeit it a couple days ago and I suspect he knew. But hey, if I pass the class I pass the class. Used Bluesky today between classes. Headed out of the ATC, dropped off my Importance of a Place (redux!) manila folder, and then headed out for a pleasantly early Wednesday lunch of a six inch roast beef on white bread. They ran out of wheat bread but it was still delicious. I was surprised at how peppery and seasoned the roast beef was. Subway roast beef is very tame by comparison, but I don't think I've had roast beef in a long time anyway, so I could be misremembering. It was a damn good sandwich. Unfortunately I can't say the same for the ride back home. I'll tell you it's crazy how bad traffic can be outside of peak hours. I sped, I slowed down, I misjudged distance. The sunglasses mostly made it clear just how idiotic the drivers around me were. There was so much passing on the left lane that the speed differential was as bad as 20-35 MPH sometimes. Awful, just awful. But I made it home. Helped Grandma pick leaves from a bunch of herbs we got in the backyard for her dinner stew/soup and I got a touch sleepy 10 minutes in. The rest of the day was unwinding. Maybe a bit too well since I took a nap from 4:00 to 5:20. Oops. I got up and tried working on the slipbox but I felt so weighed down today and even now even looking at my OneTab made me feel meh. Had the idea to "graduate" from my slipbox and transition back to digital since it would be one less thing to carry with me when I move to UCSC. Could you imagine me leafing through my slipbox at a seminar course? Goodness. So it was very tempting. And it made sense to me too: Learning to compose, shoot, develop, and print my analog film negatives has made me a better photographer when I take photos on my RP. I think I'm at the point with my slipbox now that I have enough note-taking discipline to (re)do it in digital. Thinking about it then I was kind of dreading having to retype every note out, but actually, as I'm thinking about it again now, it seems like shifts like these necessary involve some kind of filtration and selection. It would be nice to retype everything, if I had the time and energy, but realistically I would probably only retype notecards that supported (hints and traces of) my cognitive theory. Even still, I'm skeptical about the UI/UX of the note-taking apps, since there's very little tactility and freeform manipulation available even for basic, short snippets of text -- snippets of text, I find, that are more potent and effective for my longerform writing than full-fat LEGO bricks of "Evergreen notes". It seems like whatever I choose to speed up my cogsci research this summer and into my junior year of college, I will still have to contend with certain principles around time/place/person organization, anchoring notes with alphanumeric or temporal codes, having a hand-curated index, and constantly riffing off from related fragments. (So, it may not be Obsidian that works best for semi-structured note-taking and dense overviews ⁠— it would be TiddlyWiki.) Time to head off soon -- I'm done.