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Yesterday I almost lost it. I missed my lesson again and received my second warning. The situation was very typical: I fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was already too late. I opened my phone and realized that the day had already ended. The most frustrating part is that I only needed three minutes. Three minutes would have been enough to complete a quick lesson and protect my streak.
Now I only have two streak freezes left. If I miss one more day, I could lose everything — a streak of about 1,939 days. I started it in 2020, and it represents years of small daily efforts. Losing it would feel like losing a small piece of my past discipline.
Yesterday I forgot to mention my small Duolingo failure. It may not seem important, but for me it was. Since the beginning of the year, I had kept a perfect streak and really wanted to maintain it for the whole year. Unfortunately, I fell asleep again and forgot to complete my daily lesson. I woke up around 2 a.m. and realized what had happened, but it was already too late. I even tried to trick the app by changing the time on my phone and completing the lesson retroactively. It was a creative attempt, but Duolingo was smarter than me. Now I have one frozen day on my calendar — a small imperfection in what used to be a perfect record.
Yesterday, I went to bed around midnight. I only wanted to take a short rest, but unfortunately, I ended up sleeping until 2 a.m. The first time I woke up was around 1 a.m. when I accidentally dropped my phone. I thought I would sleep for just ten more minutes, but those ten minutes turned into a full extra hour. As a result, I missed my speaking practice and other daily routines.
Today, I need to practice even more than usual because I don’t want to lose the progress I’ve made over the past month. In fact, I’ve been practicing speaking every single day since January — even since late December — for at least thirty minutes. Now I want to maintain this strong habit and see what kind of results I can achieve after a full year. It’s my personal experiment.
Today I finished two chapters of my book “Alice in Wonderland”—Chapter 6, “Pig and Pepper,” and Chapter 7, “A Mad Tea-Party.” I read them during my lunch break, which took about fifteen minutes, and I plan to read the next chapter later in the evening after my walk. So far, everything is going well, and I’m very involved in the reading process; it’s enjoyable and interesting, and I want to keep up this habit throughout the month and finish the book. I’ve even planned how long it will take me, and if I read one chapter each day, I can easily finish it without any worries. I’ll also have enough time for my old book, “The Best Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” which is very important to me, since I made a promise to myself to keep reading it until I understand it 100%.
Today the weather was quite cold. The outside temperature was around –13 degrees, but it felt like –19. I felt this clearly during my evening walk. While I was walking, my face was extremely frozen, even though there was no wind outside. The hood of my jacket, especially near my throat, was covered with white frost. By the way, I walked for about one hour and covered approximately three kilometers.
During my walk, I visited several places. First, I walked along the embankment, and then I went to Sabantuy Park. On the embankment, everything was usual: I saw only a few cars parked in the parking area and one child with his father swinging on a swing. In Sabantuy Park, I saw many skiers. They were actively skiing between the trees, and I couldn’t even take a picture because they were very fast and skilled.
Today is already November 27, and after a few days December will start. I don’t even remember how the time passed so fast. Well, my day started as usual: I woke up 10 minutes before 9 AM. But before that, I first woke up around 7 AM. At that time I turned off my alarm and continued my sleep. Next, I woke up around 8 AM. Then I checked my phone and decided to sleep an extra 10–15 minutes. But instead of that, I slept approximately a whole hour. Then I was forced to do my routine quickly and without much attention. Of course, I always try to keep more time for my morning routine, but my sleep always takes over.
Today was my first work day after my vacation. I worked all day from 9 AM until 6 PM, with a break between 12 PM and 1 PM. In the first part of the day, I returned to my old tasks that I couldn’t finish before my vacation and refreshed my memory about them. In the second part of the day, I had a meeting about how we can stop using Google services. Instead, they want to switch to Russian local services from Yandex. If you don’t know, Yandex is a Russian company that is very similar to Google, but smaller. This change is happening because the Russian government is trying to push companies and citizens to use local IT services. It’s more useful for the government because they can control everything.
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