actions, not words.

Today was less productive than yesterday, but, on the whole, still not as bad as it could have been. There are particular reasons for celebration and particular reasons for sorrow, but this is has always been and will always be true. Maybe that statement is a sense of resignation more than it is a notion of self-acceptance, but it feels at least somewhat true—or, maybe, it is both. As the famous Whitman quote goes, "do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)." This thought has cropped up on the edge of a lot of small items recently. I don't remember them all—it sort of flits in and out without much impact, although I recall its presence. One thing I do remember it relating to, however, was this fact I discovered on the 18th, based on data from the South Dakota Department of Health and an email from MIT administration: COVID-19 tests done by MIT yesterday: 1930 COVID-19 tests reported by South Dakota yesterday: 954 I tw...

I wrote a post for the ESP blog about my HSSP "We Didn't Start the Fire" history class which can be found here ; more substantive, this-blog-specific posts coming very soon!

this is a post moved over from the daily series, with minimal edits. I am up slightly later than I would like to be, but part of that is due to the fact that I have irreparably broken my sleep schedule, and therefore, in combination with a lot of naps I took in the afternoon, am still capable of being awake at this time. I'm trying to put myself back on track, however, so hopefully that will work itself out. We'll see how it goes. In any case, today was pretty okay. I got up this morning at 9:30 AM, thirty minutes after my alarm was set for, which was unfortunate, since I was supposed to get up at 9 to make HSSP slides. Fortunately, this week's verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" was shorter than others, so I was able to make the slides for the lyrics I was covering and still have some time left over, and go a little more in-depth to the subjects than I normally would. My coteacher and I managed to finish the slides right under the wire (as is usual), and, onc...