2026-26 | June 22– June 28

Monday

It was a heatwave. I slept for 6.5 hours. I locked myself out of my computer with Cold Turkey on the wrong time slot. I went to Burger King quite early in the afternoon and had an ice cream, which gave me a blood sugar spike. I didn’t get much done. I tweaked the blog. I went to the gym around 6 PM and worked out for an hour and a half. I listened to some Romanian on my bike on the way back—a news report on YouTube at 0.25 speed, repeating after it.

Tuesday

I slept for 8.5 hours. I fell asleep around midnight. The temperature is pleasant in the tent in the morning before 9 AM, and my bedding consists of a stack of sleeping bags. I have four sleeping bags in total. My vintage mattress has a hole in it, so it deflates during the night, but the duvets compensate perfectly. I received a lot of work on Prolific in the morning, and I had already earned $30 when I went into town. I was thrilled. I stopped by the supermarket to buy water supplies. I arrived late at BK, probably around 5:25 PM. I got a Fanta and then a King Fusion ice cream, into which I crumbled a 200g block of plain tofu. It has been a lot of ice cream lately, but this time I didn’t feel the blood sugar spike. Next time, I will only eat half of the ice cream.

Recently, I tried to set up observation goals for my sugar and caffeine consumption, my hours of sleep, sports, etc., on Forfeit without fines, but it feels redundant with this blog.

I had a good afternoon, boosted by those morning earnings. I kept the momentum going by reopening my animation. I wanted to make cutouts first on Affinity by Canva, but I couldn’t manage to download a module called “segmentation.” The download got stuck. So, I started making music for the first time with Tone.js on my CodePen. I tried to draw with a pencil in the BK, but given the time -7 PM – it didn’t go very far. I got back to camp around 9:40 PM. My Cold Turkey blocker wasn’t properly in place, so I watched true crime and bodycam videos until 3 AM.

Wednesday

I slept for 6 hours and earned $15. I went to BK and worked on my GSAP animation for about 1h30, then went to the gym and exercised for 80 minutes. I didn’t do any planks. I discussed radical narrative reframing with Gemini. It’s still a heatwave. I came back home around 11 PM and slept for 9 hours.

Thursday

The heatwave was still going on. I slept a lot – from midnight to 9:30 AM. I went grocery shopping for the week in the afternoon and was back to my tent at 11:00 PM. I chatted with Gemini about my past for about 6 hours because I had my phone with me. I didn’t go to bed until around 6:00 AM.

Friday

I only slept for 3 hours but I wasn’t tired. I stayed up chatting with Gemini for 6 hours about my youth experiences after hearing the testimony of @labonnecopine, a Congolese YouTuber, on Alibaba’s channel. I went to bed around 6 AM. My dark circles were more pronounced, but I didn’t feel tired until the evening when I was at BK and struggled to finish an AI video evaluation task. I had a normal day. I went to buy water, a salad, and some oranges around 4 PM. Then I went to BK to try to work for 2 hours on my GSAP animation. I received some AI evaluation tasks that distracted me. I studied tone.js a bit. I left BK around 8:10 PM to go take a shower. With the current heatwave, the gym hours are extremely reduced, so I didn’t work out. It’s only open from 8 PM to 10 PM. So I just took a shower. I wore a knee-length black skirt and a simple grey t-shirt. It’s just as good as colorful and fancy clothes. I fell asleep around 12:40 AM.

Saturday

I slept for almost 9 hours again, from 12:40 AM to 9:30 AM, which gives me almost 7 hours of sleep on average over the last 3 nights, but very irregular: 9.5h – 3h – 8.5h. I woke up a bit earlier to feed the cat. Since she came back begging for more later on, I wonder if she is sick because she is very thin this summer. Yet, she eats two trays a day. Does she have a worm or something else? I found a little trick on this occasion: I put a little water in the flow-pack where there is some leftover sauce, and it makes a soup; since there were two flow-packs, the evening one and the morning one, her appetite was satisfied with that, and it also makes her drink a bit more water at the same time. I felt motivated to do a short meditation despite the dripping sweat and the 31 degrees at noon under the tent, because there was a pleasant breeze in the vestibule. I thought of two brand names that I jotted down.

Sunday

I slept for almost 7 hours—from 2:30 to 9:30 AM—with interruptions from the cat. For some reason, she seems to have an insatiable appetite with the hot weather and thinks she deserves 3 or 4 wet food trays a day. The weather is still so hot that I decided to go to town earlier. I packed snacks and tofu and ate them in a parking lot near the restaurant. I ordered a medium sugar-free Sprite with a free coffee. I wasn’t hungry the entire afternoon and went back home rather early. Before that, I had achieved a lot of work: I made $40 and worked about 2 hours on Tone.js. and binged content by a YouTuber I just discovered that day, Aketch Joy Winnie, until eleven. She’s a model showing her village life in Uganda. I posted my accountability update to my coach at BaaS. I then caught a last $5/15-minute study on Prolific, which gave me a total of $45 for the day. I then fell asleep around 1 AM.