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 After dinner, played FIFA until 8, then played Civilization until midnight. Fell asleep then and woke up at 3 because of the alarm. Got up immediately to watch football games. Afterward, felt not bad and had a cup of coffee. But I was afraid that it was risky to do the cycling exercise since I had slept for only three hours or so. Went back to bed then. Got up at 7 again to have breakfast. Then participated in the English lesson on Italki. I usually perform worse when talking to the American guy, compared to talking to teachers on Lingoda. Maybe because what we talked about was more complex. Today I shared my experience of riding fourty or fifty kilometers to eat ramen or fried pork cutlet. I showed him pictures of the Gundam model that was displayed outside of the shopping market and talked about anime then. Surprisingly he had read the comic version of Gundam the Origin, whereas I had not yet watched the anime. Previously, maybe in the second or third lesson, he told me that his favorite anime were Jojo's bizarre adventure (especially the fifth part) and YuYu Hakusho, which I though was quite common for Americans. We also talked about Valtaire's "Condide", which was a book he had metioned in our previous lesson and I had been reading in the past three days. Some ideas of this book were quite interesting to me, like "We must cultivate our garden". While he thought this taught us to focus on our current work, I thought that was an encouragement for sustainable life. I also told him that, although a peaceful life in a garden might be attractive to me in some ways, there were still parts of me that long for advertures similar to those in "One Piece". I still had no motivation after the lesson. At 10, I set up my Clash service as global transparent proxy in my home network. It was pretty easy, just added the necessary configuration entries for the tproxy port, created a systemd service to modify the iptables and set Clash server as the default gateway and the sole DNS server in my router's settings. Played FIFA after lunch, then returned to the study room to do some job search, without sending out any cover letters or proposals. Did my daily workout at 3, then I decided to rest. Completed 5 pomodoroes today - one each for exercise, English and research, and two for job search.