Week of Dec 11th, 2024

Work #

The weight of learning is upon me.
I’ve been doing the astro (opens in a new tab) tutorial quite religiously, and in the process I’ve learnt that I have many opinions on frameworks and javascript. It’s a comforting feeling, and validating my skill as an engineer. Maybe I’ll write them up one day. #

Akila is learning how to make websites too, and I am pumped! I love teaching programming concepts, it makes things crystal clear in my head. Also, gmeet calls debugging terminal things at 0030 are a great way to feel alive. Been thinking that maybe I have had too much work life balance lately. #

Life #

Spent a weekend with the nesting partner after a long time. Met his friends from out of town, and it filled me with so much love. We ate steak at Millers46 (opens in a new tab), drank mulled wine, and reminded ourselves why we actually like each other. #

A friend is going through a hard time with a relationship and I’ve spent lots of time to support them. Ankur (opens in a new tab) and I dropped them to the airport! We saw the metro tracks being laid next to the highway and I can’t wait to be able to take (more reliable) public transport to the airport in my city. #

After RC Coworking (opens in a new tab) on Tuesday I went to Puzzled Pint (opens in a new tab). My first PP was in 2018 when I had just started interning at Obvious (opens in a new tab) (Co-incidentally, my first PP was with Chandra (opens in a new tab), whom I ran into again yesterday!). I stopped going two years ago because I felt like I wasn’t having fun, and I just had too much else going on. But yesterday was excellent! I think it really helped that the friends I was with were highly focused and efficient 😁 #

Health #

I had a terrible migraine last Wednesday that carried over to Thursday.
On Monday I went to an ENT who told me the itch in my throat doesn’t have a presentation in my throat and might be coming from somewhere else.
I still haven’t gone to the dermatologist. #

This last week has been a flare week for me, which meant I was back to losing mornings, but today morning I came back strong! Let’s hope this is prescient of the flare going away for now until next time. #

I have gone to the gym at least once a week for 6 weeks in a row now! 🥳 #

Thoughts #

Language is so inefficient for communication. Reading RSS feeds is so much nicer for the brain than reading social media posts (even if they’re heavily curated). I have an itch to build a more disparate, professional community again. Breathing is underrated. #

Media diet #

Watching: Blue Eye Samurai
Reading: I updated all my reads for this year (and left review dumps on some of them!) over at goodreads (opens in a new tab). #