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Slept in a little too long, got up around 9:30. (I technically woke up around 6 or 7, when my brother used the bathroom this morning — he's going camping with his friends today and tomorrow.) Added more condensed milk into my coffee. It was totally gray all day.
Relatively less productive day (though yesterday was freaky). I did finish indexing my notecards in Helios and I finished Chapter 3 of Vygotsky and Cognitive Science. I'm getting lost in the sauce for sure — I haven't reviewed my lecture notes and Zotero articles, and I'm still not sure what to write. But it's OK. Total Helios time was maybe 2 hours.
Spent my intermittent YouTube phone time half between scam baiting videos and Dan Allosso's note-taking videos. Did laundry as well. I'm grateful for our drier humidity in Milpitas and our more powerful laundry dryer. In Scotts Valley, me and Donna typically have to run the dryer 2 or 3 times for regular loads. I'm not looking forward to the humidity when I go back to school and Scotts Valley, honestly.
Had some Neoguri seafood ramen with a couple of eggs and napa cabbage for breakfast; and grandma made some pork and pickled mustard soup and fried up some more fish. Yummy calcium.
I forgot to mention this yesterday: I can't be surprised the days feel like they pass fast. I realized that, in addition to the constant overcast weather so typical of December, I've been staying home and using my computer for uninterrupted hours, about 2 or 3 hours at a time. I'm not switching up my immediate surroundings, and so the days feel like they're going by faster (harder to pattern-separate out tasks, events, and time — they're intrinsically tied to place).
Intuitively it makes sense to me now, but it also gives me a new perspective on the apparent haze of early 2020 to mid-2024. It also gives me a clue as to how I want my life in the future to be like: unsettled "just enough" to make every day feel substantial.