So the old (and somewhat stupid) expression goes, "having too much on one's plate". Unfortunately I'm not inventive enough to come up with an interesting way to say this without swears. . . . Okay even then it wouldn't be too imaginative. Whatever. I'm here to whine about my life. Sort of. So I've had this sudden jump in my motivation levels! I don't know how long it will last (if this were a bet with actual cash stakes, I'd bet on a week) but I've recently had this great urge to make a game. In particular one of those crappy SNES 2d games with sprites that became outdated around a decade or 2 ago. Well these things require programming skills, pixel art skills, and game design skills. All of which I don't have. Thus adding to making my list of things I'm teaching myself grow larger. I'm learning C++, pixel art, and potentially 3d art rendering type things (if Starry ever gets around to teaching me). I also have a small little journal where I write down my terrible game ideas in an effort to brute force my brain into producing good unique game design (this isn't going so well). Add this to my doodling in classes and teaching myself Japanese for a full list of my self-motivated projects. Then add THAT on top of my schoolwork and you have a general idea of how many things I'm trying to do.

Well I'll explain my schoolwork so it can be understood why my current routine breaks my mind. I'm doing the IB diploma. Which is a terrible thing that the Europeans conceived in a diabolical effort to take away the free time of our children. This means that a standard night's homework is about 2-5 hours long. Obviously that's not all, I almost always have at least 1 test a week, usually more, and these things that are the physical embodiment of Chinese water torture called Internal Assessments (IAs). I could almost say that that last statement was not a hyperbole. Almost. Okay though I complain about my schoolwork, I don't actually do it, so technically it doesn't count. But I'm still busy. I swear.

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