That dreadful feeling of doing nothing despite having every reason to is back again. Today I did the bare minimum and floundered about the rest of time.
What annoys me the most about this is how I've made it super easy for myself to do things that I count as being "productive" - rather, I've defined a bunch of activities as things I'm allowed to not feel guilty about. Watching weekly anime, reading One Piece, reading non-fiction about literally anything, speedcubing. Somehow, in the act of defining these things, I've made them feel like chores too.
This probably has a lot to do with that "dopamine" thing people keep going on about. Seems quite important.
I tried to work on Kilby Girl further today, but I'm having trouble recording parts to be on time. It's a combination of input latency messing up my recordings and not having a good reference for the timing.
I think I'll have similar issues working on other songs with lots of layers, i.e. things I'd like to cover properly. So I'll try to stick to learning individual parts of songs like solos or basslines and intros and all, for the next few days/weeks.
Today I learned a little bit of OD by Polyphia! I find myself surprised that I can make progress on learning songs of that complexity, but it makes sense in retrospect. Their songs are mostly a long guitar solo, and OD especially doesn't have a lot of multi-guitar stuff or lots of chords and double stops built into parts. I might work on this song further for the next few days, though there's little point given I won't actually be able to play it at full speed. Unless I practice a LOT and work on fundamentals along the way. Even then I might not be able to.
I got to the part covering Verilog in my digital design textbook. I already knew all of it, but it's nice to read through it again and get a bit more clarity on how HDLs work in general.
I wonder if by the end of my internship I'll have learned enough to maybe try making my own processor in Verilog and generate an IC for it. It'll probably be very simple and not very good or versatile, but I think a project like that would go a long way in motivating me to keep working in electrical.