June 19th 2023
45 / 400 / K2
(12/75) 16?.?
I completed my loan decrease request form. Also I checked my email and my advisor is available this week. I should call her tomorrow.
School starts in one week.
I finished the module I was working on the other day.
June 15th 2023
41 / 396 / K2
(8/75) 165
Today is good so far. It's my third attempt at a fast. I'm going to be going at least for the 36 hours, 48 depending on how I feel. I'm about on hour 14 right now. I cancelled my date for later because I wasn't feeling very good chemistry with the person. I'm at a point in my life I think where I don't feel the need to go on a bunch of dates. We'll see how that holds up as I remain single for a long period of time. I am currently trying to do a lot of things and have a lot of priorities higher than making time for people who I don't feel strongly about, especially when dating is so time and energy consuming.
Anyways, I plan on getting work done today. I will update later with my progress.
June 14th 2023
40 / 395 / K2
(7/75) 166
Here I am at another day. My new date for the practice test falls between the 20th-26th depending on if I can get a couple of modules completed over the next couple of days. This will take an intense level of focus but I know it's possible. Tonight I want to finish the "Getting the data in" Module.
Tomorrow I will go towards tackling the Actual Modeling of Data (Design a model, Intro to creating measures using DAX, and Optimizing performance).
Tomorrow I will also like to finalize my FSA details. Today I submitted my MPN and Entrance Counseling AND Acknowledgment. Tomorrow I will need to adjust my payment method for school and fill out the Loan Decrease Request.
After a nice 5 day break from my responsibilities I have decided to hit the grind again. I have set up my email for school and noticed that I needed to fill out more Financial Aid stuff INCLUDING
-Entrance Counseling
- MPN
- Other(?)
After I've run through that I'm going to check my email to see if the financial aid person I talked to sent over the Loan Reduction Request.
THEN I will work on a module for Power BI. Maybe I will have enough time to do two modules.
Haven't done much yet today. About to get on it.
Should probably do FAFSA stuff.
Pushing back my deadline by 1 day officially.
Also fasting today.
June 6th 2023 32 / 387 / K3 (1/75) 168
Not too much to report today. Good progress with my therapist. I have been vomiting words profusely. I'm quite comfortable where I am. I talked to the Student Financial Aid guy. That is all going well also. Checked off all the stuff on my list. Only thing slacking is my certification study. I am not thrilled about the direction it is headed in as I continue to procrastinate. I did however alter my schedule for finishing up and it did show me just how far my procrastination has thrown me off indeed. I'm glad I got that perspective. I suppose I should now knuckle down and actually do something about it tonight. Should be doable. You go, Michael.
I did not sleep well on account of a distressing dream and a sweaty morning. Because I didn't work out and skipped my meeting today I have chosen to restart my 75 day challenge to day one. I am advancing my Karma to level 3 as I think I've been practicing mindfulness to my specifications of the first 2 levels. This third level is defined by attachment to material possessions and interpersonal relationships. I'll say I passed this level if I don't make any frivolous or unproductive purchases. I'll also limit the amount of time I spend on Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_poisons#:~:text=In%20the%20Buddhist%20teachings%2C%20the,all%20of%20the%20other%20kleshas.
June 5th 2023 31 / 386 / K2 (7/75) 165.9
I'm waking up a bit later which is OK. But not ideal. Although I feel better when I wake up, studying later into the evening does a lot for me. I study later, I game later, I wake up later. What is the harm? Perhaps I should not be gaming at all, but I don't want to deprive myself of all of the fun. Anywho. It is rather late into the day, I have a lot scheduled, and i've got to start cracking on. I'm going to paste the objectives from yesterday that I did not get done to here to have another go at them.
So I've had something of a lazy weekend. I think I got too caught up in trying to get a date yesterday to do any work. All that and I didn't get a date anyways. Whatever. I think these apps lead to me wasting too much of my time when I don't even really care for the types of people and interactions that they foster. Although, I think I did get into a nice rhythm of talking to people from them now. I just need to figure out what level of commitment I am willing to put into them each day before I find them consuming hours of my time.
On the topic of time, I have a lot of studying to do today if I want to be any kind of up-to-date on my certification progress. Luckily, there is no movie today or anything like that so I have no obligations. I suppose I need to go feed my friend's cat at 6 o'clock, and I should probably run some errands while I'm out. Need to swing by target and pick up a cat bed. While I'm there I can get some of the vitamins I'm missing.
I don't want to put the heat on my ass enough to where I'm going to get entirely caught up or ahead on my studying, but if I want to accelerate my progress so that I CAN catch up I need to do at least two lessons today. Here's what's on the docket today. I've already got such a late start.
Study: Finish at least three modules (not including the one you already started).
Go to target and get: 1 New Cat bed for cat. 2 More bath soap 3. Chickens 4. Vitamins DONE
Feed friend cat (6 p.m.) DONE
Do some workout. push up, kbs, shrug, Ting, curl, pull up, forearm roll. Should be enough DONE
Clean up room for week DONE
Redo nails for week. Trim hair
Check email about school - at least figure out what needs to be done next
Fill in work schedule on planner DONE - It seems like I don't work nearly as much this month
Meditate OR go to Sunday meeting
Anything else to put in the planner? When does josh get back? Make work times for cert? Meetings?
Damn, so I got signed into my Google Domains account and used my email address mnewton@rogueten.com to sign up for a power BI Service account and it WORKED. That's fucking cool.
July 2st 2023
28 / 383 / K2
(4/75) 166.3
So today I completed my fast, did some yoga, ate a bunch of chicken to celebrate and I'm still down a lot of weight with all of this food on my. I hope I didn't lose too much muscle.
I got accepted to the university for my BA in Game Art and Development! Yay. I was expecting that but it's still nice to have a win. Next step is to select which classes to take.
| COURSE ID | NAME |
|---|---|
| FYE-101 | First Year Experience |
| GRA-205 | Fundamentals of Design |
| FAS-110 | Introductory Drawing |
| GRA-202 | 3-D Modeling and Animation |
| ENG-226 | Intro to Creative Writing |
July 1st 2023
27 / 382 / K1
(3/75) 167.4
Properly beginning studying today. I think I need to forward the fafsa confirmation email to the fellas over at university. I HAVE DONE THIS - I need to review my SAR
Didn't study yesterday so I'm going to double up on lessons.
Get Started
Discover Data analysys and getting started
Prepare data for analysys
1st Clean, transform, and load data
2nd Get data in
If I can complete all 3 of these lessons I will officially be ahead - which would be awesome.
Also fasting today.
