4.10.2025 this has been such a week. i was doing code katas on my phone all day yesterday and generally out of it. felt a little down this morning and has a rough start to my day but am about to log off to go hang out with pooja. 4.8.2025 such a busy day today. i had a rough start to the day and was so tired and distracted but i accomplished everything i wanted :) i went to see tia minerva, stopped by trader joes. i have been playing set on my phone and was a little worried bc the pattern recognition was taking forever. i came back and did another hackattic challenge. they've been so fun to do. i finished watching queer w/ tylar and now we're watching the women while i transfer a bunch of tabs from my phone and she does her hair. 4.7.2025 i don't think i meant to skip the weekend but honestly i forgot my password to log in on mobile and just decided this would be a when i'm on my laptop thing. i had a rough start this morning, i really need to be better about getting enough sleep. went down a rabbit hole of raspberry pi home servers. i feel like i've started getting a lot of hardware stuff on my pinterest, so saving a lot of things that catch my eye. really wild how i'm spending my time on my phone now that i don't have social media. i also decided to pause artists way for a bit until i get a hang of my study routine. i feel like its too many new self improvement things and i have not been focusing enough on the artists way. i think i'll do it a little informally in the mean time. just journaling one page in the morning and trying to one thing alone (artists date vibe). 4.4.2025 i'm feeling so frustrated. i think blocks i hit yesterday came back today which made me come to terms with the fact that my foundations for ds&a aren't as strong and i just need to spend more time with that. so slight change of plans, but it'll be better in the long run. just so frustrating to think through a plan and have to derail, even if it's the best thing to do. going to restart my roadmap next week with all of this in mind. lessons learned today are repeat, reinforce, be curious. 4.3.2025 my woodworking workshop yesterday was so fun! it was so nice to smell the wood, and feel it and work with it. we learned about different saws, and rip cuts vs cross cuts, and just so much about wood. i got to saw and chisel and plane and use a draw knife on my own wooden plank. i woke up so tired this morning and had an interrupted start to my studying with therapy but i still had a super productive day! i finished another lesson for the odin project and got through my neetcode problems of the day. i've been listening to a lot of nts while i study. i found this episode with dominican merengue from the 40s and 50s and i'm honestly just sad there isn't a tracklist. anyways so proud for how much i accomplished esp being at tylar's and away from my desk. 4.2.2025 feeling so tired today. i used my travel alarm clock for the first time and loved it honestly. waking up early let me finish my morning pages at a reasonable time to finish the rest of my routine. i did my neetcode problems and have been feeling good about those since they're mostly ones i've done before. taking time to really think about the problem and how i'm going to approach it makes all the difference. i also finished the intro part of the odin project so i'm gonna go ahead and check out what hackattic challenge i'm going to do. i have to leave early today for my woodworking workshop which i'm excited for. will be interesting to see how i adjust to being away from home and my workspace starting tomorrow. 4.1.2025 i'm letting the start of q2 be my own personal new year. a testament that i can have a clean slate and start over whenever i want. I started studying again, and did my morning pages today :) and am currently trying to take time to figure out what i'm going to do during my study breaks and what other things will fill my "work" day. I want a daily writing practice aside from morning pages, even if its just another place to dump thoughts, but think something more public facing would be nice. i don't think i trust myself to rely on roam daily notes. i think i want to make sure my study breaks are away from my desk, i think spending time with my hobbies, or something tactile would be nice. and i think i'm going to try and work through the odin project and do hackattic challenges to learn something new, and work on things more relevant to what i already know :)