Third day of a three-day weekend

I’m not sure that I’ve had a more productive third day of a three-day weekend in the entire time that I’ve lived in Japan. As usual I felt the call of video games, and I did look for and play an idle game, but it is so necessarily idle that I doubt I spent more than an hour on it all day. I had planned to try pre-packing, but I didn’t really feel motivated on Sunday, and I completely forgot yesterday. I don’t think it will be necessary. I made some progress on the final paper for my class--not as much as I had hoped, but I feel satisfied.

JAPANESE

Since I had some time, I did my reading in Steins;Gate, the visual novel that I’ve been trying to read for the past two years. It took me a solid twenty minutes of reading to find six words that I wasn’t confident in my understanding and weren’t too niche. Even then, the words were a bit technical—for example: compression, drainage, interference. One example of a word that I felt was too niche was the Japanese translation of the large Hadron collider. Yeah, I don’t plan on using that in communication any time soon.

I still didn’t do any writing in Japanese, but I still intend to try.

5-MINUTE PLANK

In the morning I barely made it to 2:15. In the evening I pushed myself for the last thirty seconds to make 3:00. It was really tough, but I feel like my back and stomach are getting stronger even if it doesn’t necessarily show in my times.

DANCING

I learned a basic but nice new move yesterday, but found that it looks better slow than fast, or maybe I just can’t do it properly when going fast.

Though I decided on a song to choreograph on Sunday, I found a shorter one with about the same tempo (and as a bonus, in French!) yesterday, so I decided to go with it instead. My next step will be to figure out which of the dance moves that I know and can do in my apartment setting are tempo appropriate. Once I make that list, I’ll match sections of the song to those moves, and finally I’ll work on making smooth transitions between them.

PROGRAMMING

I still didn’t do any actual programming, but I finally added some things to the project management website. It’s really cool. I wrote features I wanted to add as tasks, and then for the most crucial one I broke down the task into subtasks, then because I had some decisions to make, I brainstormed some possible solutions on the website, where it was recorded so that I can see it in the future. So I didn’t really do anything, but I feel better about it and more prepared to work on it soon.

BIBLE MEMORY

I reviewed a few Psalms, including Psalm 9, which was still difficult but I (barely) managed to do with 90% accuracy. I also read and then reviewed Psalm 10. I missed a couple of verses, but it wasn’t as bad as Psalm 9. I think if I review all 10 of the Psalms twice between today and Friday, I will have no problem recalling them to satisfaction on Saturday, my goal date.

RUBIK’S CUBE

I was much more disciplined about counting moves, and though I had a couple of times where my mind blanked and I got a really high number of moves, in general I felt like the solutions were coming more easily. When I did my night plank, I also solved the Rubik’s cube using F2L, and did it in just over two minutes.