Struggled to wake up. Lectures, Claude, birria burrito from Tacos El Chuy and talked to Ezra and Diego, turned in LING 177 homework 18 minutes late (past 11:59pm). Too tired to beat myself up for missing the deadline; I'm sure Dr. Brasoveanu won't take many points off since he knows I'm engaged in-class.
Finishing up Week 2, I feel like this quarter got off on a really sluggish, lagged start — I should've prepped as much as I could in Spring break. Me and the CaT Lab team have to cram theming and the poster draft this weekend. I personally also have to get caught up on foundational readings, though I imagine I'll have to sacrifice a couple adjunct readings. This is fine, because I have the same capacity as last quarter, but I'm riding closer to burnout than I have been since last year around this same time with that god-awful CMPM 80H course.
12:31am already. I've been sleeping later and later this past week, which is not okay, because I now know sleep makes up 80% of the next day's focus. I remember my sleep became lighter and more fragmented in the last three weeks of Winter 2026 from the (self-inflicted) stress of Brainwaves/Cognition. Oddly, even when I do sleep later (and wake up early), I feel somewhat OK until evening. I'm not counting on this to be a sustainable change. It'd just be nice to know WHY exactly my habits are shifting.