Opening thoughts:
Full drafts of all my assignments done! 
I’m not overall feeling very chipper or anything, and I still need to crunch through edits and formatting them for submission… but progress has been made, so let’s take a moment to celebrate that.
Derailments:
- /2025pages & /2025reading - These are my goals for reading a certain number of books/certain number of pages this year. I’d been keeping up, mostly by reading manga, but last night I was so tired I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I let it go.
Closing thoughts:
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…
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Opening thoughts:
My assignments all got turned in on time! My brain is mush.
Derailments:
- /yoghurts - I’m getting really bad at prioritising this, sigh.
Changes to existing goals:
- /steps - I’ve revised the target down for now, due to a) reality and b) some changes to how Oura tracks steps, which they’ve warned will generally reduce the number recorded. I want to work back up, though!
- /libraryfeb12 - I had to return the books to the library for various reasons, so I’m archiving this experimental goal for now.
- /graduatepls - Got me to finish all my assignments, now archived.
Closing thoughts:
Did I mention my brain is mush? Between that and moving, nothing revolutionary is happening around here!
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Opening thoughts:
Things are looking up! OK, I’m still in the middle of trying to move, and my exams aren’t that far away, but I’m getting back to an even keel and a bit of a routine on the daily stuff… and some of my Beeminder goals are being very well managed because my dad won’t rest until I’ve eaten three meals a day and hydrated properly. 
New goals:
- /bedtime - I know, I know, a very classic Beeminder goal! I’m surprised I’ve never used this goalname before. In any case, given that I’m staying with my parents and sister, and given that the four of us are night owls, my bedtime habits are slipping. This goal is a 5/week rate goal for getting into bed by 1am, reported the following day.
I’ve decided that it counts as long as I get into bed, even if I then read for a while, because reading to wind down is good for me. Plus, trying to beemind actually sleeping is trickier, since then you punish yourself if you can’t sleep.
This is my New Month’s Resolution goal for May!
Closing thoughts:
Possibly I need to create a studying goal, but I’ve been resolutely not thinking about that for a couple of weeks while I chill out. By the end of next week, I should come up with something.
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Opening thoughts:
Oof, I wasn’t very well this week and it put a bit of a damper on my study plans – but as promised, I have got started with studying and come up with a goal, which I’ve just created. More on that below!
Derailments:
- /steamdeck - This slipped as a priority, for good reasons, and I wasn’t able to keep up with it until the break discussed below kicked in.
- /snackattack - The profiteroles Dad bought for me needed eating or they’d have gone off! That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
New goals:
- /studyup - Here’s my study goal, for doing 3 past paper questions per week each week until the first exam.
Changes to existing goals:
- /steamdeck - I’ve put a solid break on this through the end of my exams, just because studying is going to take up a lot of the spare time that I use for playing games other than FFXIV. It’s not a priority for the moment.
Closing thoughts:
I need to have a look for other goals that maybe aren’t a good priority at the moment – I’ll try to do that by this time next week!
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Opening thoughts:
Not an awful week, since not a lot was going on. Some positive developments on the housing front… let’s see how all that goes.
Derailments:
- /steps - With the more conservative step counting + relative inactivity due to circumstances and sickness, I ended up derailing on my steps goal. I need to consider reducing the rate again for now to something realistic…
- /bedtime - I didn’t waaaaanna go to bed. Also I miscalculated.
Closing thoughts:
Meh… nothing much to report at the moment. I identified a couple of goals I might want to put breaks on/dial down over my exam period, but I haven’t quite decided yet. I guess I’ll try to decide by next week, because my exams are coming ever closer!
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