starting a melatonin self-trial. Not double-blinded, and only two weeks long (1 week melatonin, 1 week control). The primary aim is less to get significant results on it and more to get into the general swing of recording stuff well enough to do maths on. It was great when I started collecting anecdotes, but more is possible.
I am probably not asexual, despite frequent attempts to self-identify as such, and have the beginnings of a plan to better explore my boundaries. WOoooOOooh.
I am now not using HabitRPG. It will take a while yet to iron out the kinks in Google Now, but I think it’s working well so far. I want to remember to celebrate when I get things done, since I don’t get arbitrary points for it anymore. I possibly need to install a System-1 visualization of being better off for looking at the list of things to do so I at least know exactly what I’m ignoring.
Optimizations: I moved my physical filing system into my laptop bag. More of my home base is now portable, yippy.
I am making an effort to get my stuff down to a manageable number of things for nomadism. Not because I think I’d do that, but because having the affordance is useful for not feeling too claustrophobic to think rationally about where I live. I’m hunting down yard sales to buddy up on every other week, and my laptop now has the driver to run the document scanner we’ve got.
Had an emotional breakdown on Wednesday. The culprit is likely some combination of forgetting to take medication and getting not enough sleep. The straw was looking at a box I’d made for the family to collect happy positive thoughts in: a hopeful initiative which had crashed and burned upon contact with said family.
I wonder whether it would have been better or worse without the melatonin. I was procrastinating going to grab the pill until it was past any reasonable hour. (I’ve now fixed this by having an alarm and leaving it ready to take next to my computer. Some solutions are embarrassingly simple as soon as you bother to think about them.) Perhaps I was dead tired enough by then that the melatonin had no benefit in helping me get to sleep, while convincing my body that the night should last longer than I had time for.
Texting random people every day has fallen out of use, habitrpg was much better for daily challenges like that than my new system.
Yet another week in Hamland:
starting a melatonin self-trial. Not double-blinded, and only two weeks long (1 week melatonin, 1 week control). The primary aim is less to get significant results on it and more to get into the general swing of recording stuff well enough to do maths on. It was great when I started collecting anecdotes, but more is possible.
I am probably not asexual, despite frequent attempts to self-identify as such, and have the beginnings of a plan to better explore my boundaries. WOoooOOooh.
I am now not using HabitRPG. It will take a while yet to iron out the kinks in Google Now, but I think it’s working well so far. I want to remember to celebrate when I get things done, since I don’t get arbitrary points for it anymore. I possibly need to install a System-1 visualization of being better off for looking at the list of things to do so I at least know exactly what I’m ignoring.
Last week of August:
Optimizations: I moved my physical filing system into my laptop bag. More of my home base is now portable, yippy.
I am making an effort to get my stuff down to a manageable number of things for nomadism. Not because I think I’d do that, but because having the affordance is useful for not feeling too claustrophobic to think rationally about where I live. I’m hunting down yard sales to buddy up on every other week, and my laptop now has the driver to run the document scanner we’ve got.
Had an emotional breakdown on Wednesday. The culprit is likely some combination of forgetting to take medication and getting not enough sleep. The straw was looking at a box I’d made for the family to collect happy positive thoughts in: a hopeful initiative which had crashed and burned upon contact with said family.
I wonder whether it would have been better or worse without the melatonin. I was procrastinating going to grab the pill until it was past any reasonable hour. (I’ve now fixed this by having an alarm and leaving it ready to take next to my computer. Some solutions are embarrassingly simple as soon as you bother to think about them.) Perhaps I was dead tired enough by then that the melatonin had no benefit in helping me get to sleep, while convincing my body that the night should last longer than I had time for.
Texting random people every day has fallen out of use, habitrpg was much better for daily challenges like that than my new system.