It's the summer before my freshman year of college, and my only obligation is that my parents are paying me to clean our filthy house. So I have tons of free time that I am trying to put to the best use possible. Here's a list of what I am doing:

• My goal in life is to be a video game developer, so my main priority is learning how to make video games. I'm not really sure which of several possible projects I'll end up spending most of my summer on, but right now I'm learning how to use Unity 3D.

• I've been reading stuff in the broad category of "human nature". For example, on my bedside table right now, I have Self-Made Man, The Luck Factor, The Happiness Hypothesis, Queen Bees & Wannabes, and The Moral Animal. I started this project in order to hopefully reach an a-ha moment that would allow me to realize what I'm doing wrong and therefore cure my shitty social skills, but I think I've already reached this moment very early into the summer, so now the whole project seems slightly less useful and I might forgo it in order to spend more time learning gamedev. :\

• Doing Starting Strength.

• Learning how to lucid dream.

• I wanted to spend a lot of time getting better at meditation with the goal of eventually reaching jhana, but I've lapsed really hard in my practice lately and I'm having a lot of trouble getting back into it. So I don't know what I'm going to do about this one.

I'm tracking how many pomodoros I've done of learning video game devlopment and reading about human nature here. My initial goal was to do five hundred in a fifty-two day period, but unfortunately it's looking like this might have been overly ambitious.