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magnolias in May

New Orleans, Louisiana

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I love New Orleans 🥲

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I'm so excited to be heading to New Orleans for the long weekend!!

My boyfriend and I will be making a road trip out of it and have decided to take the fastest route through Alabama, which will still be quite long...but I don't mind. I think it'll be fun to see the environment change as we move across multiple states! Plus I will pack us lots of tasty snacks for the journey.

We'll be in NOLA for 4 days, so there will be plenty of time to see all the sights and sounds! Also, it'll just be nice to get away from my day to day life for a bit and see something different.

New Orleans is a city I have always wanted to visit and now having lived in both France and the Deep South, I'm really excited to experience Louisiana’s unique culture firsthand and eat all the classic Cajun and Creole dishes!

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r&r

Phoenix, Arizona

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a relaxing afternoon

Atlanta, Georgia

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greenery

Atlanta, Georgia

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Prague, Czechia

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lighthouse

Marblehead, Massachusetts

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new growth

Atlanta, Georgia

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view from my old bedroom window

Snoqualmie, Washington

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Prague, Czechia

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colors of early spring

Atlanta, Georgia

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Travel Diary: My journey to The South

golden hour

Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming

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Springtime has been beautiful but so stressful. I feel like I'm constantly on the brink of losing my job because as the state of the world is getting more greedy and ruthless, the company I work for has essentially put everyone in my department in a pressure cooker to 'prove their worth'.

I am one of the more novice researchers in my department and was initially hired on with the intent that a more senior researcher would have the resources and time to train me up. Unfortunately, shortly after I was hired, there were a bunch of layoffs in the org and its been a game of barely staying above water ever since.

The work I am assigned to do has become too complex for me to handle and so I'm in a bad situation. My stress has been intolerable for a couple of weeks now and at this point I'm actually growing pretty apathetic.

In a weird way, I do take some level of comfort knowing this experience is universal and happening to even the most talented people across so many different industries. Literally, the whole Giant Bomb and Polygon debacle that's happened in the last week is a perfect example of how a majority of companies are run by fucking MBA morons who are only obsessed with profit.

I know that there is only so much I can do and I will put together a plan to deal with this issue soon...but for now I'm just trying to stay sane and focus on things that keep the dread at bay!

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poppy garden

Atlanta, Georgia

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Grand Teton National Park

Jackson, Wyoming

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sweet treats

Shinjuku, Japan