It has been about a month since my last post. The reason I have been out of blogger is very old and stale one. I was busy, But true. After moving to new house I was busy setting everything up again afresh. I might sound like Sheldon here but I will admit that I don't like change. Not in general may be but when it comes to living space it is very true. It is just too much work for nothing. Anyway in the new big house we are 5 of us, like a frat house, and I have 4 awesome housemates. Huge upgrade from previous one.
After that work was keeping me busy. All that summer travel made the work suffer a bit. I should have got done more than I did. So my adviser didn't like it. And if you are doing PhD unhappy adviser is not a good status call. Since then I've been working at least 12 hours a day and 7 days a week. But it seems it is not enough.
I have been inventing ways to cut down extraneous time expenditure outside work. A big chunk of time which is gone un-worked involves food! Buying groceries and cooking. I try to buy grocery from the store on my way back home, it is a little bit more expensive but there lies the balance between saving money and time. For cooking I try to cook in bulk. Like 8 meals in a go and then freeze it. Towards the end I get sick of eating the same stuff from 4 days. But in the fight for survival I will happily take that over working empty stomach. Another tip is to keep the office stocked with food all the time. So I carry both my lunch and dinner with me when I arrive here in the morning. This way I can stay here as long as I wish and not let my hunger decide the leaving time. To make the whole exercise not hit the health I try to include a lot of fruits for vitamins in the diet. Eggs and peanut butter and milk and nuts for protein. Potato for carbs (otherwise I keep losing weight, I already lost 4 pounds in last 3 weeks). Because rice is hell lot quicker to make in terms of preparation time than bread/chapati I've been eating a lot of rice. That means low fiber in the diet. Which is not so good for digestion. I've been meaning to try taking fiber supplement but haven't had a chance to buy psyllum husk. It has 28% of DV in 1 spoon. So 3-4 spoons and thats it!
Sleeping, bathing, laundry and some other misc. stuff are other ways to kill time which I haven't figured out yet how to minimize. Minimizing sleep time can be dangerous idea because if you fall sick then it will bite you back. Since last 2 days I was feeling feverish and nausea so I have too be very careful. I slept 9.5 hours last night and feeling better.
Wish me luck!
After that work was keeping me busy. All that summer travel made the work suffer a bit. I should have got done more than I did. So my adviser didn't like it. And if you are doing PhD unhappy adviser is not a good status call. Since then I've been working at least 12 hours a day and 7 days a week. But it seems it is not enough.
I have been inventing ways to cut down extraneous time expenditure outside work. A big chunk of time which is gone un-worked involves food! Buying groceries and cooking. I try to buy grocery from the store on my way back home, it is a little bit more expensive but there lies the balance between saving money and time. For cooking I try to cook in bulk. Like 8 meals in a go and then freeze it. Towards the end I get sick of eating the same stuff from 4 days. But in the fight for survival I will happily take that over working empty stomach. Another tip is to keep the office stocked with food all the time. So I carry both my lunch and dinner with me when I arrive here in the morning. This way I can stay here as long as I wish and not let my hunger decide the leaving time. To make the whole exercise not hit the health I try to include a lot of fruits for vitamins in the diet. Eggs and peanut butter and milk and nuts for protein. Potato for carbs (otherwise I keep losing weight, I already lost 4 pounds in last 3 weeks). Because rice is hell lot quicker to make in terms of preparation time than bread/chapati I've been eating a lot of rice. That means low fiber in the diet. Which is not so good for digestion. I've been meaning to try taking fiber supplement but haven't had a chance to buy psyllum husk. It has 28% of DV in 1 spoon. So 3-4 spoons and thats it!
Sleeping, bathing, laundry and some other misc. stuff are other ways to kill time which I haven't figured out yet how to minimize. Minimizing sleep time can be dangerous idea because if you fall sick then it will bite you back. Since last 2 days I was feeling feverish and nausea so I have too be very careful. I slept 9.5 hours last night and feeling better.
Wish me luck!
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