{"id":554,"date":"2016-05-30T02:35:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:48:52","slug":"update-for-5292016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/30\/update-for-5292016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 5\/29\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; This week will be Kindergarten, and the challenge will be getting through the whole grade in one week, like I didn&#8217;t do with preschool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet<\/strong> &#8211; Last week my theme was a self-imposed depression, or as I called it, &#8220;embracing the misery,&#8221; brought on by my doctor visit the week before and more <a href=\"https:\/\/authoritynutrition.com\/top-11-diet-foods-that-make-you-fat\/\">recommendations of the same kind<\/a> on sites like Authority Nutrition, basically don&#8217;t eat anything normal and make all your own food. I felt that bland meals and hunger were my future, my punishment for having a body I needed to feed properly and for wanting to spend my time on things other than cooking, and I wanted to keep feeling bad about this, partly out of a vague hope that if nutritionists saw all the trouble they were causing, they&#8217;d change their minds, which I suppose amounts to a temper tantrum. But keeping myself depressed takes effort, and on Saturday I decided I&#8217;d had enough wallowing, I&#8217;d rather return to a more nuanced and positive approach to the situation, and it&#8217;s okay to ignore the more extreme diet advice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daily routine<\/strong> &#8211; It was easy to extend my depression over diet to the rest of my life, aided by some tough life advice by a Quora user (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/How-can-a-young-employee-stand-his-her-ground-without-being-rude\/answer\/Cherie-12\">this<\/a>, for example). I felt that it was dangerous to enjoy life because that creates a sense of freedom, when really I&#8217;m meant to be a continual prisoner to duty, and my enjoyment of life leads to irresponsible things like staying up too late, so I experimented with minimizing my enjoyment to see what that would do, other than the obvious of making me depressed. Like I said, I let up on myself on Saturday, but my experiment did result in a slightly altered schedule that&#8217;s easier to keep, doing my devotions and walk right after dinner so I get all my &#8220;chores&#8221; out of the way before playing (doing my projects). My sleep schedule has still not improved, however.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Video games<\/strong> &#8211; In spite of my plan to suck all the joy out of my life, I still played some <i>Minecraft<\/i>, and my current project of building homes in several of the more interesting biomes is coming along better than I expected, given that I&#8217;ve had the idea for at least a year and I didn&#8217;t get very far in earlier attempts. I&#8217;ll post some pictures or something in a future update once I have more to show for it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong> &#8211; As an example of how my mind wanders off on its own, the past few days it&#8217;s been insisting that for some hazy reason metaphysics is a very interesting subject right now and that it&#8217;s high time I bought an intro textbook. So I&#8217;ve been looking at the options, even though I have no idea when I&#8217;m going to fit in reading it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finances<\/strong> &#8211; Invoices sent! Next up: Updating my church giving, which will happen tomorrow so I can help with their end-of-year missions fund needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Math relearning &#8211; This week will be Kindergarten, and the challenge will be getting through the whole grade in one week, like I didn&#8217;t do with preschool. Diet &#8211; Last week my theme was a self-imposed depression, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/30\/update-for-5292016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,117,128,112,100,129,6,105,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-daily-routine","category-depression","category-diet","category-math-relearning","category-money","category-philosophy","category-project-updates","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}