Tiredness
This was from August 2008, just found it now…
It’s amazing how just being exposed to people arguing can tire you out. Maybe it has something to do with the topics being important being argued about. In any case, all my reserves of energy were totally shot today.
I just did my mnemosyne cards, an extremely small amount on OS, uploaded my latest drawing, drew a bit (that was really relaxing.) Looked up how to mock datetime in python, did some research on the newforms admin in Django, and…that’s it, I guess. Huh, I did a lot for someone who’s nerves were totally fried. 
When I draw on the picture plane now I’m developing some spatial memory. This really helps with dealing with the slight changes in position of my viewpoint as I draw. It’s interesting, just be repeating the exercise over and over, I’m able to gain just new skills and understanding. It’s really interesting how we are able to learn new things, repetition is reinforcement and discovery, or at least that’s how I perceive it.
I notice the same thing with my mnemosyne cards, when I forget something, I think about how it fits in with my other knowledge, which is usually a discovery process, at the same time, the repetition of learned cards reinforces the memories. The same type of thing happens with drawing, but each “atom” of knowledge can’t be separated like it can be in mnemosyne.
Which reminds me, I still need to add the diagrams to class to mnemosyne for Physics and Operating Systems…