Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Shakespeare Order

I had a few special items on my agenda yesterday which took time away from my normal goals. Also, I cooked a dinner which was supposed to be massaman curry but was much closer to panang thanks to the peanut butter. The flavor was mild, but it was delicious even so. It took a long time to make and I’m not sure why, but that’s a recurring theme in my cooking experience—where did the time go?

I’m almost finished reading about oil—I’ll probably finish the book tomorrow. For my next reading adventure, I decided to restart my project of reading all Shakespeare’s plays. I spent an excessive amount of time looking for a good reading order, one that shuffles the genres and preserves the internal chronology of the history plays. I never found one, so I decided to read the early plays and then the late plays, with the history plays in order. That’s still not a precise order, so I’m going to start with the plays that I’ve never read before—first with King John, which apparently stands alone from the other history plays. Sometime soon I’ll try to finalize my reading order and post it here.

SCHOOLWORK:
I was extremely focused and productive yesterday and finished my last assignment for my language arts class. Even though I was just short of three hours, I decided to call it a day. I also finished the CLEP course and requested a voucher for the test, so if that comes through it will be exciting.

JOB:
I didn’t talk to Dad, but I did talk to my brother, who gave me some names of people he knows in the computer science industry.

EXERCISE:
I did the normal bicep curls, planks, and decline push-ups. My arms are feeling ever so slightly sore today, so I guess I pushed myself a little bit, which is good.

SPANISH:
I learned about direct object pronouns. The concept is simple, but I was completely unfamiliar with the word “consigo”, and it sounds really strange to have a sentence like “las lee.” I also read a few pages of El Libro de los Seres Imaginarios by Borges. It’s easy to read an entry or two, so I’ll try to do so regularly before bed.

DIY:
I did important school administration related stuff instead.

PROGRAMMING:
I think I worked on my Foodmaster program for an hour, and yet at the end of it I had barely anything to show for it—the base panel loads in the home window, and that’s all. I did a lot of google research and I set up some other things, but still, it’s slightly discouraging how little progress I made. Today I’d like to work on my javascript program, but I would also like to get further in what I already have… ugh, too many things! Hopefully I’ll finish my schoolwork early and be able to devote more time to this later in the week.

PEOPLE JOURNAL:
I’m going to keep track of this so that maybe I’ll write in it consistently. I think it will be difficult since I won’t really be meeting people, but it’s only five minutes—worth a shot.

BIBLE MEMORY:
Four more verses of Psalm 25. It’s not coming as easily as 22, that’s for sure. I should probably work harder on reviewing it, or maybe memorize fewer verses at a time, but if I do that then I probably won’t meet my monthly goal.

BIBLE READING AND PRAYER:
I did this when I woke up at 4:30 this morning, and later I went back to sleep, so I’ve forgotten what my thoughts were.

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