This weekend has been wild. I'm glad all the craziness is done today (Saturday), or I'd be in a bad spot from the anxiety. I'm glad I have tomorrow to relax.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been procrastinating on my English assignment. It's not something gigantic, but it is a solid chunk of work that I hadn't been doing. It was due yesterday, and the anxiety from it was creeping into everything else I was doing. Of course, anxiety doesn't override executive dysfunction, so I kept putting it off until I had maybe six hours left before the deadline.
I did end up getting it done, but that means I skipped dinner yesterday as well as the weekly game night. Neither is a gigantic deal, but they're both good sources of spoons. I already feel like I'm running on empty half the time. I really need to be more proactive about my work to avoid some of this in the future.
This morning, I went to the No Kings protest. It was really cool to see how many people turned out. I'm living in a relatively small city, so I was surprised when about a thousand people were there.
A not great thing was the amount of young people there. It was only a ten minute drive from my university, but a vast majority of the protesters were at least twice my age. I feel like I could be the catalyst for change here, but I'm already so low on spoons from everything else. I'll try to make a difference where I can going forward.
Immediately after the protest, I played with my school's band. It wasn't the best performance ever, but it was pretty good. I joined the band on a whim a couple months ago, not really expecting a whole lot out of it. I guess I forgot how good it feels to play music.
I used to play the trombone in high school, so that's what I'm playing now. It's amazing how quickly it came back to me. I haven't even been practicing that much, only two hours a week. The hardest part by far has been remembering how to read the pitches on my sheet music.
So, I might have lied about the weekend being over for me. I do still have a project/exam to do for my graphic design class. I'm not worried about it, though. My plan is to get it done tonight and have nothing for tomorrow.
This graphic design class is totally useless for me, by the way. All it is is making charts in Excel. More specifically, which buttons to click to get a particular chart, or sometimes a closely related chart because the professor doesn't know the difference. Maybe she just doesn't care, or maybe she wants to make the class easier on us. I can't really tell.
I do want to highlight one specific thing from lecture. When demonstrating one of the formulas (which must have been COUNTIF because we don't use anything else in this class), the professor mistyped something. There are several ways in Excel to fix this. For example, pressing esc will revert the input. You could also confirm the input (tab or enter) and undo (with mouse or ctrl+z). Neither of these is what the professor did. Instead, I watched in horror as she closed Excel and reopened it. For the record, I'm not mad that someone doesn't know how to use a program. I'm mad that someone who's been using it for years and is teaching a class on it doesn't know about the existence of undo.
That's about all I have to say for now. I will add one more short-term plan I have: I want to add GoatCounter (or my own version of it) to this website. I'm more than a little bit curious where, if anywhere, I get traffic. I don't want a whole lot of data, just pageviews. I'll send an update here if and when I get around to it.
Until next time,
- BakersDozenBagels
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