In recent years, I’ve often found myself thinking that there really isn’t enough time in the day to get everything I wanted done. I still think this. Especially now, as I find myself right in the middle of a move and paperwork. To get a task done correctly you have to focus on it, and to focus on it you need time. Each task needs its own chunk, even if multitasking.

I went to get my visa in Geneva today. One step closer to Japan. How thrilling! I found a lovely café in Geneva to study in and spent the morning and afternoon in a surprisingly productive studying session. I am always pleasantly blown away by how consistently I can study when I head out to a café somewhere.

It’s officially my last week in my apartment. Over the course of the next week, I’ll be moving my things out and deep-cleaning everything to make sure that it’s in order for the next tenant. It still hasn’t really sunk in yet. This is my first apartment after moving out from my parents’ place. I’ve lived here since the end of 2020, for over three years. How time absolutely flies by.

Consistency is key, but I think that it would be important to my general schedule if I set myself a minimum of only about one or two hundred words on the weekends for the writing challenge. Either way, I’m in the middle of a move! Or so I keep telling myself—I haven’t been doing too much about it just quite yet, since it took so long to confirm anything.

Today (Friday) has been a particularly slow day for me. I had and have plenty to do and a long list of things that I should have been getting to, but it just wasn’t the day for productivity. It took much longer than usual to get out of bed, and sitting at my desk and studying was suddenly a massive chore compared to how it usually goes. I could only concentrate in small bursts over the course of about 90 minutes.

There are innumerable posts out there critiquing the internet and its influence, and rightfully so. There are plenty of reasons that the internet is not the greatest of places to be, nor the healthiest. However, we are wont to forget the many, many positives that the internet also brings.

Music has played an integral role in my life, for all of my life. I grew up listening to my parents’ CDs during long drives that we did several times a year; the most common route being between seven and nine hours long. I had a portable cassette tape/CD player boombox that I would listen to for hours on end at home. I still remember the first CDs that weren’t my parents, but were mine*. I would often fall asleep to CDs**. Even still, music is incredibly important to me.

Note to readers from future Nick - this turned out to be a rough stream of consciousness blog post, but I’m happy with it, so I’m posting it without any edits or changes. Day three of the challenge completed, woo! A meta post that goes into exercise and my main reason for procrastination, as well as my tactics and reasons in combatting it.