Went through some textbook reading and some lecture note-taking for my lecture series on history of USA. Here are three things I learnt so far:
- Many US colonial citizens hated the Stamp act A LOT.
- Privateers rich from attacking French ship in the Seven years war had a significant amount of influence in late 18th century colonial America.
- The unification of the colonial states come in significant part because the British tried to started to try and exact legislation broadly across all of the states. Instead of to individual states. This helped create a we frame between the states.
Studying this calmed my nervous system, which is... surprising. But very welcome. Usually i am on FIRE 24/7. Like its insane. someone seemingly told my nervous system that I'm living in abu graib rather than some first-world town.
I started playing piano again. This course i'm doing has a tutor who is obsessed with learning parts of songs and not playing the whole song. which is BORING af. So I cheated on him and started learning random songs alongside the course too. Now I can play ode to joy .
I want a hobby that keeps me in touch with my humanity, but like in an emotional, more feminine way. cybersecurity, siege and pickup are way more masculine. the academic stuff too. Piano is a welcome addition.
I am thinking of adding literature back in, but i'm not sure. That's already a lot of things. And piano also helps cool my nervous system. So we will see.
