AcademicalNerd @academicalnerd@qoto.org

2021-03-12, 08:17, Friday

Weather swings are a lot like mood swings, but it's not just your mind gets stained; your boots and pants do too. I am now looking at my shoes covered in mud and contemplating my life choices while the train gets me to university.

On a serious note, I am weather-sensitive and get severe mindfog along with a headache whenever temperature rises significantly. This is very annoying since I'm Moscow these "jumps" are common.

I could probably write something else but I haven't written anything for my projects yet and it's half past nine. So I'll leave it for another time.

2021-03-11, 08:55, Thursday

New diary [entry](https://academicalnerd.blogspot.com/2021/03/hairdresser-on-arbat.html). Hopefully this one is a bit cleaner and easier to read since it's not a translation.

2021-03-11, 08:12, Thursday

And I still have no idea if there will be a class on x-ray diffraction or not - the professor just ignores all emails. Anyhow, I have enough on my to do list to keep myself busy.

@FailForward
Thank you very much for the feedback! I do intend to make my writing good "for others", whatever that means. But writing in two languages is quite hard: I tried translating originally Russian piece and failed miserably. Although I haven't edited it.

On the subject of lomography: no, I've never heard of it since I'm not into photography, but looks interesting.

@FailForward
Actually, is the writing any good? This is a quick translation from a note in Russian and it feels off compared to what I'd normally write...

@FailForward
A good summary, yeah. Maybe I should change the title?..

2021-03-10, 09:37, Wednesday

Posted a diary entry. Here it is: https://academicalnerd.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-last-day-of-winter.html

2021-03-10, 08:26, Wednesday

One article, mind you. This is an actual problem.

2021-03-10, 07:20, Wednesday

"You know what we didnt have for a while?" my brain asked yesterday. "Uncontrolled anxiety! Yay!"

That wasn't nice, honestly. I decided to hold off my caffeine consumption for this reason - it usually helps a lot. I should probably get to work - a lot of writing and programming to do today.

2021-03-09, 08:15, Tuesday

Getting back on track. Managed to write some notes on tensors and make a thesis for the conference. It's a good practice of writing craft to fit a popular explanation of your work into one A4 page. Slightly frustrating since I don't get to brag about how complicated things are, but you can't get everything at once.

Actually, I might write about this part of my work here at some point. Would make a decent essay, even though a bit nerdy.

@trinsec
I mean, you probably save a metric shitton of money on clothes and heating, yeah. On the other hand, snow is pretty in the countryside. In the city it's gray or black usually :(

2021-03-08, 08:09, Monday

I'm off track with writing, work and studying because of the party. Now it's time to catch up. The plan is to do the weekly review that I skipped yesterday and then go from there. Slightly frustrating but it's fine, it should be that way.

@trinsec
Of course! In Moscow snow melts by April usually, maybe late march. Today it's -10C.

2021-03-07, 19:25, Sunday

Oh well. Threw a party. 8 people in my countryhouse, we made a lot of bbq type food (not a traditional bbq, a russian variation). It was very nice and everyone stayed for the night, we played some board games, drank a lot of cidre and red wine. And today in the morning we were just sitting in the living room and watching the snowflakes fall for an hour. Charming night and a beautiful day, but my introverted ass is exhausted. Nonetheless, I'm grateful to finally have quite a few people to have fun with. This is new and wonderful.

2021-05-06, 08:21, Saturday

Day off, going to my country house to throw a party there. Not the most nerdy thing to do, but it's a good way to unwind and relax. This will also make a good story. As a photographer looks for beauty around then to capture it for others, I now look for experiences to capture in my writing.

2021-03-05, 20:00, Friday

Great podcast with Jordan B. Peterson by Tim Ferris. Very interesting, a lot of things to think about.
https://youtu.be/C1sEHNw4UIg

2021-03-05, 06:40, Friday

I can't work late at night. After 18:00 my cognitive functions drop to almost zero and I fall asleep by 21-22. It's possible to shift this slightly if I wake up later, but most of the time it works this way.
This is why I have an hour and something like 10 minutes to study for today's test. We covered the material yesterday and classes lasted 'till 18:30 so there was no way I could revise. Anyway, time to study.

@FailForward @mathias
That editing though: shitload -> load :D
On a serious note, I tend to use fullscreen stuff for the sake of focus. Sometimes it's splitscreen on windows, 50/50 between brave browser and whatever else, most of the time qt creator or matlab.
And in linux... Well, I tend to have 3-4 terminal apps in different workspaces, there is no real pattern there. Whatever works at the moment, that's the advantage of twm.

@mathias @FailForward
I just wanted to try something very configurable and minimal. Yeah, it is very good out of the box, I agree.

@mathias @FailForward
My laptop is on pop os with xmonad wm on top, works great. Although the pc is still on windows :(