My first week of quarantine! Even though being confined to a small, windowless room in complete isolation for days on end sounds absolutely terrible, it's actually been quite enjoyable in some ways. I think I could pull off being a hikikomori. But then again, not talking to anyone for months or years sounds pretty awful so I'm just a poser.
❌ Get the Performance Test flow working in the cloud
I didn't reach this goal because it requires support for loops and other fancy things, but I did get a much more simple flow for filling out a form working in the cloud. Check it out!
I didn't hit the 9pm deadline I had set for myself, but having this aggressive goal meant that I went to bed by 10pm on most nights. Even though I could probably fall asleep then, "9pm" still feels too early to go to sleep so I end up staying up a bit more.
I'd forgotten just how good it feels to wake up early in the morning! Of course, this is completely psychological since there's no window so I have no way of telling what time it actually is apart from what my devices say. I could be waking up at 2pm every day while thinking it's 5am, and I'd be none the wiser.
Compare this to my sleep schedule just two weeks ago:
Pretty hilarious how after months of failing my weekly goal to go to bed before 12am just three nights out of the week, I'm able to get a perfect streak simply by significantly changing my environment. Hoping I can keep this new early-bird schedule rather than regressing back into a night zombie.
I've had a much easier time sticking to my routines while in quarantine, which feels counterintuitive. You'd think that if you were all alone, you'd succumb to your worst impulses, but thankfully, that hasn't been the case. I resurrected my old "Habit Log" spreadsheet and tracked some things I wanted to do every day:
I'm glad I took that 500-hour yoga teacher training course in India in 2018 because that foundation is coming in super handy now. I've also been incorporating whatever I could from my calisthenics routine so I could mix in some strength training. I miss having a pull-up bar!
In the past few days, it's felt harder to keep the routine going, but I've been able to use little mental tricks here and there so that I at least do some sun salutations rather than nothing. It's surprising how hard it can be to get yourself to do things that you know are good for you.
Since I wasn't sure if or how well my hotel would be able to prepare a vegan alternative to their meat-filled quarantine menu (and completely forgot that food delivery exists 😅), I packed 40,000 calories worth of Huel with me for quarantine:
For those unfamiliar, Huel is a meal replacement powder that's like Soylent, except it has more protein (30g vs. 20g for a 400 calorie serving) and less sugar (1g vs. 16g). I also ordered some of their new "Hot & Savory" product which turns into a creamy?/soupy?/chunky? (I'm not good at describing food) mixture that you can prepare in 5 minutes with boiling water.