11:32 and I'm already in bed. Never thought I'd see the day night.
This day was busy. It took a good bit out of me. Had all my lectures: Statistics, Psycholinguistics, Foundations of Game Design. Had a brief therapy screening with James Katz in the afternoon just before my Psycholing and Game Design and we booked the next visit for 3 weeks out. (Funny coincidence: the counselor I met with during Winter 2023 at De Anza, Mitchell Rees, now works here. Apparently he finished his undergrad here at UCSC as well. Bay Area things, right?) Of course, that'll be too late. Too much will happen in 3 weeks, even with my rut. But the formality is nice. No breakfast — had lunch instead. Earlyish dinner around 6:55. Watched Frasier. Finally finished re-reading Nightmares and Nocturnes (Draco/Hermione post-war rebellious dystopia. Not as systematic a work as Manacled but it has better strengths in motif and symbolism.)
Still I wonder what I should DM Mubashir about. If Google News feels like a landmine every time I open it as a moderate, I can't imagine what any talk of current events will do to a dedicated polisci major. Or legal studies. I still can't remember. Truthfully I'm spoiled on Looming and ChatGPT. There's no undo button or branching with people. Everything is written in digital ink. You've got to get it right — and fix it when things go sour. Well, I'll figure it out. Eventually.
The main difficulty today came around 20 minutes into Game Design lecture (we had a graduate student guest speaker, Ace) when my laptop suddenly powered off and wouldn't come back on. When I got back to my charger the system wasn't reading the battery properly. Tried a bunch of stuff. Didn't work. I'm hoping it'll clear up tomorrow but you never really know. I'll tell you, if I knew my laptop would turn into a desktop, I would've just brought my iMac.