Ye gods, its the time of the month again. I rant as much as a woman constantly having PMT (I can imagine a barrage of feminists protesting this post now, you go girls!). And yes, its that time of every month again, where I feel so bloated from everything that happened. Its that time again, where I rant about the amount of things I have to do.
The entropy of my life has increased by crazy amounts, and yet I do not appear to be doing much. Aha, you say. You’re not doing work, how can you expect to lower the entropy in your life? To that, I give you a tongue in cheek answer, one originally posited by a Leo Szillard: I’m THINKING about entropy. That in itself IS WORK! Just not enough work.
Actually, no. Work has indeed piled up. Last week alone, I had tons of assignments, had to go to work, and class, and also, tend to the running of Pressyo (yes, again, it looks like nothing has been done there either). And I was up to my neck. It’s saturday now. And I’ve finally submitted all my assignments that were due (and 3 more are coming up, yipes!), got home from work, and had 2 long baths in the mean time (my bath time is used for thinking).
Which is what got me to think about entropy to begin with. Now, entropy isn’t my field at all. It remains in the realms of physics, but anyone with an understanding of economics would appreciate its analogies to economics; plus I think the Santa Fe Institute is doing some really brilliant work on complexity economics (I don’t buy some of their arguments though, just like I don’t buy any arguments from any school of economics; though given a chance to work with any institute, the Santa Fe Institute will be at the top of my list).
I was sitting in a pool of hot water, and I let my mind wander, and on and on, I keep thinking about entropy, and life. Its not untrue that in the past few months, my life has been getting more and more disorganized. And despite my doing of things to make it more organized (i.e. lower the entropy), it seems that it automatically gets undone anyways. It can get rather frustrating at times, because I have so many ideas that I need to constantly write them down, but yet unable to do so, simply because I am at work, uni, or on a different computer doing my assignments. The thing about organization is that constant work needs to be done. And work is a function of time (think about it in the most basic newtonian mechanics, W = Fd; F = ma; a=f(t)).
And so, I’ve came to the conclusion that I’ve been sleeping too much, since I don’t have much time on my hands to spare. So from today onwards, I’m going to sleep about 4 hours daily. That should give me enough time for entropy correction 
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And yes, I think you can tell what has captured my interests in recent months, what with me talking about the SFI, and entropy.
There, I feel better now. I’m done ranting.
