10km bike ride — 5 of it all uphill — on an empty stomach. Spicy chicken fried rice for lunch. Lovely day too.

Heaven Hill's Pikesville 6yo 110 proof straight rye is beautiful. Comforting, but also very layered, takes its time to reveal everything it has. Wonder if 's had it.

@kdfrawg Appreciate the confidence. I don't have a choice, really.

@kdfrawg I'm in way over my head with this particular course, but it's too late to do anything about it (only 2 classes left). In any case, it's far too interesting to drop.

The courses I'm taking this semester are…challenging, to say the least. Discourse Comprehension is proving particularly difficult, particularly this week, with a huge amount of focus on statistics, psychology, and neurolinguistics — the latter I've never done, the first two I haven't paid attention to in almost 5 years.

Fascinating, though, reading about how stereotypes affect language processing. A short and sweet course too, this one: I chose it specifically because it's only 5 weeks long and not 10 (and I knew it'd be a lot of work, but the extra time off will be worth it).

Mac Pro slowly froze to the point where I couldn't do a clean reboot. Luckily managed to close the databases cleanly.

Have finally taken the time to map F5 to insert the current date in vim; now I'm off emacs for good (I was using it only for my meal plan because of org mode's pretty cool calendar/timestamp insert feature).

Looking back, it's a real shame I didn't keep a food log right from the start. 4 years of data would have been cool to look back on. I did make meal plans, but in temporary text files whose contents I deleted once the groceries had been done.

Travelling is important!

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Oh my.