noted: a decent mood
Oct. 8th, 2023 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishI had a decent dinner tonight (pan-seared salmon and caesar salad), and spent some time with a cup of tea and my book afterwards.
Left from last week I have: one lecture (Intro), three assignments (also Intro, GISComp aka 'create a basic web page,' and Python), and one test (Python). More than I'd prefer; I'd really rather be getting lectures at least knocked out the day of. But I'm not falling behind. I'll take it.
My concentration really is shot, though. I get to a mildly stressful point in my book and have to put it down for a few minutes and do something else. I don't think I was always like this; I think it's gotten worse sometime in the last 2-10 years. That is: it is noticeably bad since, say, last April, post-move and post-covid and post-new-job. And I was having similar trouble focusing on work within a couple of years after moving to Vancouver. (I didn't really notice it while I was at Simbatude, roughly 2016-2021 but that was a pretty slack job overall.)
Right now, though, I'm a bit tired from classwork but ... generally feeling relatively content? I'm not getting out and doing much, I'm not doing much just sticking around here. Nominally role-playing on Wednesday nights but that's falling off for various reasons. Most weekends I get out and do A Thing. I talk to Erin and Stephanie, I hang out with Mya once or twice a month and Julianne ... less often than that but I do talk to her on Wednesdays. I read, I feed myself and the cat. No musicking, no writing, few other hobbies. Right now that seems ... sufficient.
I doubt this is stable, but it does feel nice to enjoy it while it's here.
Left from last week I have: one lecture (Intro), three assignments (also Intro, GISComp aka 'create a basic web page,' and Python), and one test (Python). More than I'd prefer; I'd really rather be getting lectures at least knocked out the day of. But I'm not falling behind. I'll take it.
My concentration really is shot, though. I get to a mildly stressful point in my book and have to put it down for a few minutes and do something else. I don't think I was always like this; I think it's gotten worse sometime in the last 2-10 years. That is: it is noticeably bad since, say, last April, post-move and post-covid and post-new-job. And I was having similar trouble focusing on work within a couple of years after moving to Vancouver. (I didn't really notice it while I was at Simbatude, roughly 2016-2021 but that was a pretty slack job overall.)
Right now, though, I'm a bit tired from classwork but ... generally feeling relatively content? I'm not getting out and doing much, I'm not doing much just sticking around here. Nominally role-playing on Wednesday nights but that's falling off for various reasons. Most weekends I get out and do A Thing. I talk to Erin and Stephanie, I hang out with Mya once or twice a month and Julianne ... less often than that but I do talk to her on Wednesdays. I read, I feed myself and the cat. No musicking, no writing, few other hobbies. Right now that seems ... sufficient.
I doubt this is stable, but it does feel nice to enjoy it while it's here.