296: Burnt out on nothing

I've been having this weird experience lately of feeling rather burnt out; my intrinsic motivation to do most things, even and especially things I would normally do, has dried up, and I'm just tired.

I think some of it is simply that I am just tired; I haven't had any caffeine in like 5 days, and my sleep schedule has been erratic at best; I definitely won't get enough sleep tonight.

A very wise friend of mine once told me that "they're only bad decisions if they have bad consequences", and my recent bad decisions haven't really gotten me in any trouble, but they sure have had an impact, mostly on my sleep schedule.

I haven't kept very good track of my sleep (I'm seriously considering a more accurate biological tracker mostly for that purpose, my watch can kinda do it but not well) in the past, and my small amount of keeping track of my sleep recently has been by proxy, I have a decent record of ~3/5 of my recent days through El's sleep tracking, but that isn't entirely accurate, it's only really useful for timing.

I think a big part of my burned-out-ness, to be completely honest, is that I'm tired of wasting my time. I am unmatched in my ability to waste time, but now that I have really positive things to be doing with my time (amazing friends to hang out with, my lovely girlfriend) I'm a lot more annoyed with clear and utter wastes of it, and I have a significant number of those in my life right now.

329 has been really annoying, because it provides almost no guidance on how to do things, and the professor just hand-waves at AI instead of teaching a good chunk of it, and while I love wind power, the idea that I'm going to spend 3-5 hours every night in a week at the tunnel just sitting there while we wait for code and testing data is kind of insane.