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Jan. 12th, 2010 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikI'm getting back on schedule. While I was at the retreat, I pretty much destroyed my sleep cycle. Then I dozed a little on both plane rides, got home late due to the airport fire at Hopkins, and didn't sleep well. So it's not so much a matter of switching as rebuilding. I think that makes it easier. Last night... well, I felt pretty alert until I sat. But that was the closest I've come to actually falling asleep while sitting. (I've been head-swimmingly sleep before, but yesterday... I think I kind of drifted slightly off balance twice, and then pulled myself straight again with a bit of a jerk. Which woke me up for about five minutes. Where is someone with a stick when I really need it?) So I left my laundry in the dryer overnight and crashed. Still didn't sleep quite enough (no, really, four is plenty early enough, I have no reason to get up at three) but it's coming together.
Shifu suggested, my first lesson with her in Seattle, that I consider taking up daily meditation. "Funny you should mention that..." But really, she's talking about zhan zhuang, which if anything I've been doing a bit less of since we started sitting in the evenings. And I've been thinking for the last few months that I really should fix that, so I'm taking her advice to heart. So this morning I got up at four, and stood for ten minutes (which isn't very long, but I'm still feeling creaky and out of sorts, and I'm wanting to work with lower stances). And then I did yoga. And then I did math... (And sparring, and then collected my laundry and headed in to do forms in the auditorium, because my lungs are kind of hating the dry cold weather, and I'm still pretty committed to pacifying them.) Forms were pretty slow and creaky too, but I'm trying to integrate some of Shifu's corrections, so I'd be going slow anyway until they get automatic. Before I left, I was on a slightly later schedule, where I did an extra hour of studying in the morning. I think I'll want to go back to that, but not just yet.
It looks like there is increasing support for me writing an R01 for my quals. Which would be nice, if only to get the quals out of the way (and it would be preferable to put that effort to some use other than just passing - in this department and neuroscience both you usually work on a topic that you'll never use again). And it would be a good career move, even if it's most likely not to get funded.
We're almost out of slugs, due to supplier issues. (This is often the case around this time of year. Not that I'm lacking work...) My paperclip and solder repair job to the salt-rocket has miraculously held up. The nice monitor on Kendrick's computer (which is supposed to be my main dev box, as K was bought a nifty Mac workstation) is not talking to the box. And I don't know if I brought enough food with me today. (Though food can be acquired.)
Shifu suggested, my first lesson with her in Seattle, that I consider taking up daily meditation. "Funny you should mention that..." But really, she's talking about zhan zhuang, which if anything I've been doing a bit less of since we started sitting in the evenings. And I've been thinking for the last few months that I really should fix that, so I'm taking her advice to heart. So this morning I got up at four, and stood for ten minutes (which isn't very long, but I'm still feeling creaky and out of sorts, and I'm wanting to work with lower stances). And then I did yoga. And then I did math... (And sparring, and then collected my laundry and headed in to do forms in the auditorium, because my lungs are kind of hating the dry cold weather, and I'm still pretty committed to pacifying them.) Forms were pretty slow and creaky too, but I'm trying to integrate some of Shifu's corrections, so I'd be going slow anyway until they get automatic. Before I left, I was on a slightly later schedule, where I did an extra hour of studying in the morning. I think I'll want to go back to that, but not just yet.
It looks like there is increasing support for me writing an R01 for my quals. Which would be nice, if only to get the quals out of the way (and it would be preferable to put that effort to some use other than just passing - in this department and neuroscience both you usually work on a topic that you'll never use again). And it would be a good career move, even if it's most likely not to get funded.
We're almost out of slugs, due to supplier issues. (This is often the case around this time of year. Not that I'm lacking work...) My paperclip and solder repair job to the salt-rocket has miraculously held up. The nice monitor on Kendrick's computer (which is supposed to be my main dev box, as K was bought a nifty Mac workstation) is not talking to the box. And I don't know if I brought enough food with me today. (Though food can be acquired.)
