I lost a month’s worth of study time because I took two weeks off. How did two weeks turn into a month?
Visiting family in Singapore
I went back to Singapore to visit my father because he had just finished his cancer treatment. Good news is that the cancer is in remission. He’ll still need to operate to remove some suspicious bits and we’ll only know for sure after the operation, but the tests are promising. I think it’s just typical CYA language from the doctor where they can’t say that it’s gone for good.
Cramming
Before the trip, I spedrun through several hours worth of lectures thinking I could work on the exercises when I was in SG. Until now, I’ve not skept too far ahead, remaining only 1 or 2 lectures ahead and that was fine.
This time, I crammed 9 lecturers worth.
And no, I didn’t have time to do any of my exercises while I was in Singapore.
Heat exhaustion
One of the reasons I left Singapore was the weather. I hated the heat, but I didn’t know how much I hated it till I lived in Japan and realised that seasons were a thing. It’s been long enough that I don’t really remember when the hot, stupid hot, fucking hot seasons are anymore. May was fucking hot.
By the time I got back to Japan, I needed time to recover from the heat and the diet. That took a week and a bit. When I finally started my lessons again, I had already forgotten most of the content of the 9 lectures I watched. I remembered parts of it when I watched it again, but not enough to do the exercises.
Essentially, the entire month of May was wasted.
Making time up
I had hoped to be done with all the lectures by now so that I could focus on the past year exams. A rough calculation shows that I have about a thousand hours of lectures left. At 2x speed that’s still 500 hours. That’s not including the time for writing notes or during the exercises.
Not much else I can other than do optimising my time and cutting out everything non-essential.