things that led me to seeing the clock at 3 AM but not feeling tired at all because I was too engrossed in what I was doing

  • making my digital garden
  • making my hypertext artwork
  • writing my substack
  • working on JamJournal scraps
  • working on Crown of Persuasion
    • sleeping at 3 am for like 4 days straight to make the game jam deadline while balancing HW for three CS classes…don’t know if I can ever do that again but I had some high levels of motivation here
  • playing a piece I really like, on an instrument, when I’m at the level where muscle memory can do a lot of heavylifting - it really feels like using a different part of my brain