Brain fog

Berkeley, Friday, February 21, 2025 5:03 Pm

Fuck!

I have heard that people has become more use to swearing. Regardless, the case, most of it is on the original intention.

I has been a productive week, but I also have been committing to more.

One of the questions is why not take full advantage of the momentum?

Just right now, while I was writing this, I skipped and went to the campus class schedule to check a curiosity question that came out from an earlier conversation.

Even now I jumped out and spent 1 minute reading a New York Times tab that was open.

There are a few things more to analyze.

But in Jan I came back from Ec, while there has been an extra motivation on getting done the work, and pushing, and increased my understanding about several aspects of my dissertation. I also started to catch up with the news, which I have been disconnected for a while. And so to understand the elections. And further, while I voted, I have checked a few times the post news, post debate, post election, which easy can add up several hours.

Once, a Saturday in late January, early February, I asked someone to meet up online. She agreed. For a strange reason, either the school stress, or lack of sleep recovery from a bachelor party from a friend, I procrastinated for about two nights wasting time, and staying up all night.

Last evening, I pushed a bit to publish assignments. I did some work yesterday, which was good, but I also skipped an interesting exhibition, which I could have showed up.

I skipped my morning office hours, because there were not sign ups. But it feels horrible to not being in there.

In the afternoon, I tried to get done something at a bank through the phone, just before they close at 9 pm ET. No one attended, but I ended up wasting time in the internet, a bit on X, instagram, and probably news.

After I did the job for my class, I wasted an hour, the duration of a program in youtube. I wanted to watch part of the program, but ended up consuming the whole thing which was funny but not needed.

That thing pushed my duties back. I posted an assignment near mid-night. Arrived home near 1 am, probably. I was hungry. Ate some fruit and nuts snacks. Too late to eat. Not healthy for the weight. With all the stuff I need to do at home, to black out the outdoor flood lights, and I wrote a bit. I am back learning some TeX. I ended up going to bed near 3 am.

I had to be on campus to meet a student at 9 am. I arrived near 9.20 am. Terrible. Then I of course regret every single second wasted yesterday.

The meeting went well because I prepared, but I was without my full capacity. I might have slept from 3.30 am until 7.50, which was the first alarm ringing, I got out of bed probably around 8.25 am.

That is about 4 hours and a half of bed time, of which probably 4 or so were actually sleeping. I do some quick reading at bed, which I will continue doing.

I have re started again to do push ups and abs, after many years of not doing that. I do that as well near bed time.

It is recommended to sleep between 8 to 9 hours. And yes, that is absolutely needed to have the brain at full capacity.

In those stages, I will keep doing some accountability in here, but also getting into more details in the google doc or in MacTex.