18 september 2021
Happy to say we knocked out a little over half of next week's biology work ahead of time, so that will make life easier on Monday when two other classes kick in with their own workloads. No idea what to expect, haven't heard from those professors at all and we've never met them. The most we know is that we needed to set up a Windows VM thanks to a course description- that's up and running now. I'm shocked that the Windows ISO hasn't been updated since 2016 (not the one that comes with all the programming goodies- the regular one). 5 years is a really long time to not update that. Irritated that any space on our computer is going to Windows, but oh well, it'll come in handy since most people out there do use Windows as their OS. Nothing against those that do, we just really aren't fans of it personally. Use the tool that's best for your job.
Lots of anxiety lately, mostly over the ever-growing to-do list. Just need to keep knocking things out and moving forwards, one at a time. It's all we can do. Doesn't leave much time for anything else though.
Just realized that technically we do touch type on QWERTY- we got so good at point and pecking over the years that we do it without looking. Still learning Colemak DH because that's bound to be better for our hands than using our index fingers all over the board. At worst, it gives us options.
Speaking of us, still working on not being godawful to each other. It's a long-standing maladaptive habit that kept us safe before but just hurts us now, but breaking years of bad relations is hard and almost as painful because it's required us to confront the core reasons we lash out at each other, and those reasons don't tend to be pleasant ones. Here's to hoping we can keep up the current progress instead of falling back on old habits when class really kicks in.