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Had some leftover crab porridge from yesterday for breakfast. Made some coffee, added some condensed milk since I was craving some sweetness. (Need to add 2 tbsp tomorrow. The coffee still had its dark "bite" with just three-quarters of a tbsp.)
Spent the early afternoon clicking around my Helios slipbox, then watching Internet Historian's (plagiarized) Man in Cave video. Got hungry around 3:00, grabbed some popcorn chicken from the nearby milk tea place (Chick & Tea) for myself and my brother. Gray today, but I was awake and sharp — I've been pretty sharp since finals! Got home, looked inside the bag properly — toooooooons of chicken. No wonder it came out to like $23 in total. It's twice as much chicken as I typically eat, whether I've pan-fried it or stir-fried it at Scotts Valley. But I dug in, because it was my $11.50. Nicely crispy, and with juicy chicken thigh. The spices were milder than iTea, but meaty flavor was better (iTea uses chicken breast).
Spent the entire evening pruning back my Helios "story river" (open notecards), making links between notes, writing telegraphic titles, and running around with structure notes. Holy fuck it was intense. I think I would've worked on it for 5 hours straight if I didn't have dinner around 7:15. Grandma made a clear broth full-salmon soup (skull, tail, and all) with lemon and herb; and fried up some thin fish. Yum. Since I had such a heavy serving of popcorn chicken, I took it easy for dinner and didn't eat that much. Spent basically the entire night up until 11:30pm continuing to work on Helios. I'm still in awe I actually did that. I can't even remember most of the notes I write titles for, which is definitely a bad thing based on what I know about massed vs. distributed practice, and takes me right back to my information overload days back in 2022.
I'm not sure I'll really get to consolidate all my lecture notes into Helios. As ever, I'll just have to err on the conservative side, write notes on a need-to-know, need-to-connect basis, and take away the most juicy facts from my notes. It's the 80/20 thing. You add the gist now, nail the particulars later. (Actually, mental effort for the particulars would better be served when you actually need to write from your notes.)
Also, holy fuck do I overwrite some notes. I had to overturn a couple of notes from last year because they were so bloated and confounded. No offense to my prior effort, but improving readability doesn't necessarily make the concepts more "rigid".
Incidentally, my huge exposure to my own notes has made my improv voice notes (they're not voice notes I just ramble out loud) much more clear and much more coherent. I don't know if that's fatigue killing my overthinking, or a true benefit of Helios. In any event, I'm genuinely excited to write some shorter cogsci content and work my way up. I think my perfectionism is still blocking my writing workflow. You can literally just write things, I guess. Like now.