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Author: Pollux <pollux@pollux.codes>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:12:56 +0000
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@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ I'm keeping things intentionally somewhat vague for the sake of my privacy.
## Education
-I've just finished my undergraduate degree in astronomy, and I've lined up a
-spot in a very good Astronomy PhD program. Currently making arrangements to
-move there.
+Currently in my first year of pursuing a PhD in astronomy. Not much else to say
+just yet.
## Hobbies
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ system as much as conceivably possible. I have also started trying to remove
other sucky software from my computer. Currently, my system is completely free
of the following:
-- dbus
- gtk
- wayland
- pam
@@ -45,21 +43,39 @@ of the following:
- elogind
- plymouth
+I used to also have no dbus on my system, but I now need to use bluetooth,
+which has a hard dependency on dbus on Linux.
+
### Health
-I am currently working out four times a week, doing an upper-lower split. I am
-aiming for a low rep range on most of my exercises, which is what I prefer, and
-doesn't seem to affect my gains much.
+Currently not going to the gym regularly since I moved due to school starting,
+but have plans to start soon. I used to do an upper-lower split, but after
+reading about [fuckarounditis](https://leangains.com/fuckarounditis/), I have
+designed a good minimalist routine that will not only take less time than my
+old routine, but will help me focus on the import compound lifts and hopefully
+build strength faster.
+
+Now that I've moved to my new PhD program, which has a lot of great hiking
+opportunities nearby, I have started hiking on Saturdays. Several of the other
+students in my cohort also enjoy hiking, so I have been doing it with them as
+well on occasion.
-I plan to switch to an Arnold split (arms/shoulders, chest/back, legs) once I
-move to go to graduate school, and to re-organize my exercise programming to
-include more isolation exercises.
+### Polyphasic Sleep
-### Art
+I have just started adapting to an [E2 sleep
+schedule](https://web.archive.org/web/20231213051455/https://www.polyphasic.net/everyman-2/),
+I am keeping a log of my
+experiences with it. I will probably make a blog post in a few weeks with a
+summary of my log.
-I'm kind of busy at the moment, so I haven't had time to work on art at all
-recently, but I'll start again once I regain my footing, either over the summer
-or during the fall semester.
+I chose E2 due to its balance of sleep reduction, minimal impact on nightlife,
+moderately easy adaptation, and decent support for strenuous exercise. After
+adaptation, I should have a TST (total sleep time per day) of 5 hours and 10
+minutes.
+
+This isn't my first experience with polyphasic sleep, and I consider my past
+experiments with it to have been quite positive. I will talk more about this
+more in my future blog post on it.
## Plans
@@ -67,12 +83,29 @@ Here are some of my plans for my life in the moderate future (next few years),
for me to come back an look at to stay grounded in the bigger picture of my
life.
+Things I have started:
+
- Hit the ground running at graduate school.
- - Put together a nice, simple note-taking system.
- - Time management with a calendar.
+ - After learning to use snippets, I can take in-class notes in LaTeX using
+ vim, and can keep up with the professor even during math-heavy lectures.
+ (I highly recommend checking out this [blog
+ post](https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/).)
+ - I started using the perl script
+ [when](http://www.lightandmatter.com/when/when.html) to manage my
+ calendar and appointments. I wrote a zsh alias to display my daily
+ schedule and upcoming assignments due and bound it to the command w, so I
+ can quickly see upcoming events and due dates.
- Finish my desktop rice.
+ - I have settled on dwm+xlibre for my desktop. I wrote a tool called
+ [morph](http://pollux.codes/git/morph/file/README.md.html) to generate an
+ xresources color scheme from my wallpaper, so I can dynamically color my
+ terminal and stuff from my wallpaper.
+ - There are only a few minor loose ends to tie up.
+- Get back into polyphasic sleep in the fall.
+ - I just started with this. See the above section on this page.
+
+Things I have not started yet:
- Consistently practice painting digitally with Krita.
- Start making music again.
- Practice a second language (considering Latin and/or Japanese)
-- Get back into polyphasic sleep in the fall.
- Read more (say an hour a day).