18 december 2025
Wednesday December 17th 2025:
Placed an order for the A5 version of the Yumi Hobonichi cover from a shop in British Columbia. Eyewateringly expensive, but it's a use it for life item, so...
Thursday December 18th 2025
I could cry. Just got 25 more papers heaped on top of my head to read through. It will conclude my literature review, though, and he's promised me a review paper publication out of it, alongside double dipping into my thesis work, so I'm glad for that, at least...
Even if I don't clip through all of them, at least trying to do a paper a day will drastically cut down on the amount of work that I need to do during the active term, which will be critical, given I have some demanding classes and the horrors of winter commuting.
The soft goal is to finish at least half of them. All of them would be ideal, but unrealistic- I think I could handle at least half of the papers.
It wouldn't be so bad if I were skim reading, but this is like, an intensive, section by section reading and dissection per paper, including a 70 page report. I could weep.