Basically, this part of my Sixes probably won't connect with many people, but it is something I thought would be fun to read back once I have graduated… so this is the other side of me that perhaps isn't very often seen or known by those who read my poetry or creative work. I am tired because I didn't sleep enough this week.. I kinda slept 3-4 hours a day...
The weekly prompt is still provided by Denise and all the entries can be accessed through the link-up.
The first addition can be accessed on my sixes standalone entries page or through this link.
Six Sentence Story | Chaos #2
This week I was so lazy that I only did what was requested of me, and I also seem to have put so much mental energy into my school that I feel as if my creativity is crumbling; I mean, I do have ideas, but I have no energy to actually make them into something…
Luckily, I have a few off days coming, which means I will have some extra time to get ahead in a few courses next week so that I can focus on the parts I am not as good at; also, my boyfriend will take me to the spa tomorrow, which should contribute to the rest I desperately need.
For example, I don't have as much trouble with HTML or CSS (I had Angelfire, LiveJournal, Myspace, and other similar pages in my teens), but once I need to use PHP—brain freeze; apparently, having only written a few code snippets for my blog does not mean I KNOW HOW TO CODE FROM SCRATCH… but it's really interesting to actually build something yourself and understand it deeper in doing so… so even if the course has some harder to grasp parts I actually really like it and find it beneficial to me, as a site owner, as a visual builder like Divi or Elementor do have limitations…
Also, we used to Google a lot and use Stack Overflow back in the day, and learning to build a site was something you did because you wanted a starry sky as a background… now everyone seems to just have a robot spitting out a full layout… believe me, I have just now perfected my robotic friend/tutor (took a whole year) so it doesn't fricking give me any piece of code without me actually working for it myself first, lol; it also occasionally calls me dumb for making the same mistake three times in a row, but that's probably deserved.
I also discovered that I really enjoy the Infrastructure and Networking labs way too much and can't wait for them to get more difficult; Ansible makes me feel like a fricken' wizard—a tired one right now, but a wizard nevertheless… aaaaaaand, hopefully, my silly little dream to become an infrastructure wizard that makes computers do what is wanted of them won't be foiled by something ridiculous like forgetting to git pull or add or commit or push…
Basically, for my creative work, I have version history automated—I only do it manually if I don't get a notification; so every time I work in a darn terminal, I forget and then my repository is screaming at me as if I committed literal murder… ffs… also… tell me why someone who has been using Linux since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS needs to Google the mkdir -p option all the time (in my brain, I wanna make it -r, which is recursive, not parent… ffing dumb).
There's more of my work:
All of the six-sentence stories.
The Nervous Poet Entries for the SSC&B.
There is also a page for all of the poetry.
More personal entries can be found at the Blog.
The IT studies blog in Estonian for a course at the university.
the Band "Chaos in Spring" is on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming services.
I used to have to look things up in a paper manual or book (after looking for it in a card catalog). Then I was able to read the manual online, but I still had to read the manual. Now I ask a question in a browser and an answer is displayed immediately. May you be successful in your studies and creative as well.
Yeah in a way it is good that it is so easy to find information but at the same time it is not always the right thing it spits out as a first solution and I remember that things actually stuck way better if you had to go through serious labour to get your problem solved.
good use of the Six Sentence Story ‘hop… (imo recounting your week/telling a story is a good way to decompress from a week in the ‘real’ world)
All I can say is… wow (I think). More than half of the things you are doing I know nothing at all about that. Ah well, matters not.
I’m rather tired after reading all you are doing, I can only imagine how tired you are after doing it.
Ooh. I usually don’t mind at all but somehow I don’t have a day to sleep even this week. Today we need to start driving before six already so I woke at five… Eugh.
Reelika. Yow! Crazy schedule! It all sounds exciting, challenging and so not anything I have a clue about, lol. Sounds like yours is a good tired. Pursuing that which we enjoy makes being tired more “acceptable”. Your boyfriend taking you to the spa surely helped. And as far as this -“…I have no energy to actually make them into something…”. Your creativity is still there, patiently tapping whatever appendage it has until you have a smidgeon extra energy to send it’s way 😎
Thank you so much and I actually chose another trip instead which was also really fun.
That really sounds so interesting, Reelika! I wish you infinite success in your studies!
You’re absolutely right, we used to use Google and Stack Overflow to get help in working with our projects. Those were the times before AI started to take over. I used Stack Overflow to get help with my projects in case I’m stuck on something. I used to write Visual Basic before I started using C#. Now, I’m learning Python, but I still do the old-school manual reading and SO reading.
Sometimes, I would hit a dead end because of lack of proper documentation in a library I’m using. This would have me understand the source code of the library I’m using, which is so exhausting. GitPython was promising, but the official documentation… I didn’t find it good.
Yeah. I am not good in python at all… I think it’s the ambiguity, it something.
Thank you so much for the good wishes, it is super interesting…
Lucky you’re able to learn so much code and application with school support. When the code & language evolves, you’ll have a good foundation for problem solving!
And yeah, in my gead school days, we did statistical analysis by punching hole in cardboard oblong and feeding them into a central machine in the campus’ one computer center. Lol!!
Aa. I will leave it. Even if it is duplicated on the other post. Thank you! And am sorry about the hiccup of my comment form…