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Squeak and oil

2022-08-30

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Feeling sore this morning, still feeling a little low self esteem wise.

I got a bit distracted, almost forgot to write this - It's 10:13 now, usually I write this closer to 9:30. To be fair, I also slept in a little. Increasingly tired in the mornings - more mysteries to solve.

weaving in my dreams

I might be able to blame weaving. When I started my no-screen time last night I ended up stringing up my loom again, and the warp thread got tangled beyond repair so I only ended up tieing a third of the loom up. Extremely frustrating. After I attempted to make lazy string heddles and they didn't go so well either. A very frustrating experience, and felt similar to the struggle I felt with pop-up cards, hours of effort with little to show. Here with weaving so much depends upon the initial set up, and care and patience in this can lead to boons and grace throughout the process. But it is hard and frustrating, and slow. The whole thing is slow. I am learning to deal with this better.

bouldering

I was phoneless yesterday, and decided to walk to the bouldering wall as biking in the rain is frustrating. It was nice to go without the phone, I found I ended up thinking a lot about projects and things. It would be good to continue striving to remove this distraction from my life to make room for what really matters to me.

portuguese

I spent a couple of hours distractedly working on portuguese homework. The distraction in this case wasn't completely without cause - I need to write about my upcoming trip to Bali, so I was spending time learning about things to do in Bali. I'm feeling frustrated (a running theme) with my writing. It feels plain, basic, like I'm not putting in the best effort or writing things that could really help improve my language comprehension. Well at least writing it down like this has inspired me to have a look and see what teachers suggest for language aquisition writing practice.

I've also found Corpus do Português and I'm going through the thorough info pdf explaining the corpus and ways to use it. It's fascinating, and seems like a good way to build custom learning collections.

Conjugação

I'm keen to make a lot of progress on this today - It needs to have a fast turnover.

sour the dough

Put together a sourdough load yesterday using only starter as my leavener. Honestly, I don't think it'll rise, but I'll go through the whole process to find out what happens. Then we'll get photos, I promise. I think the starter wasn't active enough when I used it, I think I should probably have fed it first then left it for a little while, then used it.

listening to

questions

what else

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