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[103/366] snacks and uni stuff
Apr. 12th, 2020 06:17 pm12 What is your favorite snack food?
Tortilla chips and salsa. I've got stuff in the house to make salsa now; I'm looking forward to that.
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Setting myself tasks for every day doesn't work very well. I said on Wednesday I'd try to do one uni-related thing a day, even if it's just an email or making a to-do list. I didn't do anything until yesterday, and in the last 24 hours I've probably done enough to count as more than one thing every day. But I couldn't do it before, and I don't really know why. I don't know why I could do it now.
Especially today. I had bad dreams (it must be years since I had one of those "my brother is still alive" dreams but here we are) and perahps as a cause or an effect of this have been tired and a bit out-of-sorts all day. But I still chipped away at a couple of essay tasks and went through a lot of e-mails, and wrote back to the careers people. It all happened in little five- or ten-minute chunks, with indefinite breaks in between, but it happened.
Catching up has made me miss my lecturers (well, two of them). I just got to a bit of a lecture(ish) recording from Viktor who's complaining about PowerPoint letting him down but making it relevant to the topic he's trying to tell us about. Which is so him. And I miss Eva, who's kinda scary in person (only because she'll just let you waffle on for as long as you want to keep talking, and then she'll wait a longish pause and say "yeah" in an inscrutable way) but who also has written the most human e-mails I've gotten from any entity at my university since lockdown began. I read one today that ends
Tortilla chips and salsa. I've got stuff in the house to make salsa now; I'm looking forward to that.
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Setting myself tasks for every day doesn't work very well. I said on Wednesday I'd try to do one uni-related thing a day, even if it's just an email or making a to-do list. I didn't do anything until yesterday, and in the last 24 hours I've probably done enough to count as more than one thing every day. But I couldn't do it before, and I don't really know why. I don't know why I could do it now.
Especially today. I had bad dreams (it must be years since I had one of those "my brother is still alive" dreams but here we are) and perahps as a cause or an effect of this have been tired and a bit out-of-sorts all day. But I still chipped away at a couple of essay tasks and went through a lot of e-mails, and wrote back to the careers people. It all happened in little five- or ten-minute chunks, with indefinite breaks in between, but it happened.
Catching up has made me miss my lecturers (well, two of them). I just got to a bit of a lecture(ish) recording from Viktor who's complaining about PowerPoint letting him down but making it relevant to the topic he's trying to tell us about. Which is so him. And I miss Eva, who's kinda scary in person (only because she'll just let you waffle on for as long as you want to keep talking, and then she'll wait a longish pause and say "yeah" in an inscrutable way) but who also has written the most human e-mails I've gotten from any entity at my university since lockdown began. I read one today that ends
As I said in my final "live" lecture, now more than ever we need people who are not too daunted by the task of digesting and critically evaluating complex information, and are able to base their decisions on empirical evidence. In this spirit, please make the most of your final weeks of university study, disrupted as they unfortunately are.