Good news: botany works again! Our plant died because it was broken
for a week or two, but it was just a seed at the time so no big deal.
Just glad it works again since it gives us reason to check in often :)

We're doing alright. Been absolutely slammed by the college quarter
starting, which keeps us busy but is also stressful. It's almost too
much this time around. We're doing 7 straight hours of coursework
some days, not counting breaks when our brain can't take it any longer.
We'll adapt but jeez, it's week one and they're starting full speed.

Been musing over ourselves this weekend a little, wondering about how
many of us make the distinction of being part of the same mind and
not the same person. It's a small distinction but it matters. I think
we need to talk it over more and figure it out. Identity is hard.

Spent today replacing the battery in an iPhone 6 and then jailbreaking
it. Haven't replaced a battery before but happy to say it went well
and the phone works now. A fun little adventure! We'll see how long
the new battery lasts.

Not too much else eventful. We've been too busy with classes and are
trying to decompress this weekend so we can do it all again on
Monday. We'll fall apart if we don't take the time to rest and recover
from pushing hard for the week. There's only so much we can do before
our brain stops cooperating, and only so much past that before it
impairs us the day after, sometimes several days after. We have very
limited mental energy to do things with. We're used to it but I don't
think it fits very well into a world that expects you to be able to
run at full power for 8+ hours every single day. We run at full power
for 4 hours max, have about 2 hours of mildly impaired functioning,
and then we either can't do anything more or will hurt ourselves trying
to do it anyway. That's the kind of situation that leaves us unable to
do anything the day after and possibly longer. We have to pace ourselves.
It's hard when classes expect us to go at full power all the time as if
there weren't more classes that also demand that, but it's important.