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I accendentally soaked my chickpeas for almost a week, it smelled very yeasty.
Tasted a bit weird and I didn't like it but I figure it's maybe just the normal taste of fermented chickpeas.

Now time to wait to see if I poisonned myself or not
(Didn't want to waste food in case it's eatable.)

Casually scrolling through a 3200-pages book from the library genesis to find tabulated data, as scientists do.

I feel as sharp as usual but somehow I lost half of my german understanding skills overnight, so I guess I'm not. Funny that I notice it there.

Yeah, no lab today, no error-sensitive tasks.

I wasn't really planning to pour half a kilo of green peas into my breakfast but oh, well.

I guess today is not the day I go to the lab and carefully switch the laser back on

Welp, it's 6am and I feel as restless as before, time for coffee and starting work early it seems

Went through 4 cycles of not being able to keep my eyes open on my book, switching off the light, and then staring at the dark for half an hour, suddenly feeling full of adrenaline. So after 3 hours I gave up trying and started doom scrolling

Whyyy I can't ever fall asleep normally except when I basically pass out from exhaustion

The sky is blue and the almost-noon sun is poking it head a little above the houses!
Listening to my group meeting, enjoying from the balcony my first sun rays in weeks

So I just finished the Broken Earth trilogy, and now I'm supposed to be working and listening to a meeting, but I really don't feel like my mind is back on the actual earth.

It was so good

Waiting for our project meeting in two hours when she asks me why I'm not in the lab today

She was even low-key telling me it would be good to work on theory during the winter break, like those 10 days, when I didn't even start using my 2020 vacation days yet

Now I picture her repeating me that I really should take care to write this paper soon, but I also have to urgently do all the missing experiments and simulations and analysis to write another paper, and urgently restart the sleeping project I initially started with so I can be out of the lab end of February (will never happen), and I should also start writing my thesis now instead of doing everything after the end of the experiments.

Ugh I was a bit too tired when I filled my weekly report Friday night, I accidentally ticked the checkbox in the global summary that one of the papers I have to write is done, and I came back to work this morning with an email from my (ex)supervisor that I should please send the paper around

Here's my least bad shot of the woodpecker! Apparently it's looking for ants.

I was trying to work but there's a green woodpecker making a hole in the ground and I want to watch.

Also I threw a bird seed ball to the dead leaves pile where the birds seems to hang out (I'm supposed to hang it on my balcony but they don't come that close), and it bounced half a meter next to the woodpecker, who barely glanced at it

Now all the small birds are looking intensely at the seed ball but they don't seem to dare go near the woodpecker! Drama in the grass.

I thoughts human timezones and stuff were making time complicated, but actually it's already super messy by itself.