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[zzzzzestforlife]

💎 17 Sanity Challenge // Day 4 of 13 ☁️

how i start the day 🤓🙏 vs how i end it 🙃✌️:

피할 수 없어면, 즐해요 🥴 (if you can't avoid it, enjoy it 🥴)

🍚 paid attention to details, led productive discussions, actively participated in lots of meetings

😼 Japanese lessons + Chinese lesson

🍒 legs + abs workout

🐸 breathwork meditation

🦌 read a chapter of An Incomplete Revenge

🍊😼 journal in Korean

🦊 comparative cognition review + attend developmental psych lecture

🐶🐻‍❄️ cleaning fairy (bgm)

💌: 오늘 내일 모레 매일 놀아보자 ⚾ 내 인생은 홈런!~ (today, tomorrow, day after, everyday, let's play ⚾ my life is a home run!~)

bonus: @solarsapphic tagged me in this fun game 🥰 i've always wanted to know where my moral alignment was, but low-key halfway through the quiz i was terrified of ending up in the evil category because i tried to answer honestly 😭 imagine my relief with this result 🙏 also, yes, my character concept is runaway princess in an enchanted forest, sue me 😂

💞: @lemonempress @nelyastudies @shoosiopao @ink-stained-clouds @tea-tuesday and anyone else who sees this 😘

[walk-against-the-stream]

A little clean study aesthetic to get me motivated🌑

[gushuwa]

23.11.23 can barely believe it’s almost the end of the year. I think I’ve grown quite a bit. I’m reading self-help books now. That’s either maturity or a new level of desperation. 🍂🌰

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1/16/2024

a beautiful snow day with our first southern snow of the year!!

— wrote short essay for honors program admission

— edited and posted content for bookstagram

— started work on academic resume

— designed stationary for project

— watched class on proofreading research

— started plotting board for novel

🎧: sweet/I thought you wanted to dance by Tyler the creator

📚: good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett

favorite part of day: watching the snow fall and talking with friends 💜

[veravnova]

good morning! let’s get through another day ☀️

[seraphic-diaries]

14.4.23

Found out I’ll be moving onto a different project at work. 3/4 months ago that would have terrified me but now I’m much more at peace with it. I feel ready.

[seandstudies]

Things I've Said While Teaching Toddlers

Toddlers are absolutely wild and I love them so much.

Stop chewing on the shoe. It isn't even yours!

Stop sticking your fingers in someone else's mouth! You can't be surprised if someone bites you if you do.

Look. If I have to wear pants, you have to wear pants, so let's just suffer together, ok? [said during a diaper change when the child kept trying to take off their pants]

The only chalk we eat is Tums and Smarties, so get that out of your mouth.

Are you smart? Yes, you're smart. Are you kind? Yes, you're kind. Are you loved? Yes, you're loved. Are you able? Yes, you're able.

Where are your shoes? Where are your socks???

Get off the table!

Get out from under the table! Seriously??

Bubba. Little love. Sweet child. You simply cannot put broccoli in your milk. Yucky.

[zzzzzestforlife]

Done is Better than Perfect ✅

I never considered myself a perfectionist until I started coding. I'd obsess over pixels and be frustrated when my vision didn't align with what was within my ability to create. And I started to hear this phrase a lot:

"Done is better than perfect."

Of course, some things will always require precision, but one thing I'm slowly learning as I transition from university student to working professional (and back and forth between those two) is that for most things we do in life, there is a wide range for success.

The coolest people I know aren't the ones with the most money, fame, beauty, intelligence, or any other positive quality. Even if it's a mess and inelegant and nobody seems to care, they're the ones who show up everyday and keep doing.

Today was a success because it was done, not because it was perfect. 💚

[walk-against-the-stream]

Trying to achieve my academic goals🪐

[gushuwa]

15.10.23 I just broke my glasses 😩 but overall life is good, autumn is here, friends are awesome, I’m learning how to enjoy cooking, I bought a scented candle and a fluffy scarf, and I might go ikea soon ✨

[foxscarf]

3.11.23

Weekend is here! 🍂✨

Had quite a relaxed work day, but I still made progress on my project, and on deciding about my next one. I'm feeling good that I now fully understand the lab work I'll be doing in the next few weeks. And I'm pleased that I'm starting to practice having a work life balance! 🍁📚🌳🎒

(featuring my tiny desk plant Renée who lives in a pipette tip box)

23/100 days of productivity

[veravnova]

day 11/42 🇬🇧

oh. my. god. what a week. is it just me or hot weather gives you extreme brain fog? first working week in england done! i’m going to clean the kitchen now then make myself a gin and tonic. also i had a ridiculous amount of toast, butter and honey today

[workblr-lady]

12/4/23

to do @ work: work admin (28 emails, accounting), edit five posts, three meetings, po assignments

to do @ ooo: exercise, my meds, read, address holiday cards, see boy and the heron, shower, shred a rotisserie chicken

feeling: i was sleepy this morning, but we are getting everything done. i also got this frog mothman plushee from a friend. i love him.

[ink-stained-clouds]

summer 2023

what’s happened so far

A grueling yet enjoyable summer job carries on

Been taking more walks lately, it’s been a strangely cool summer and I intend to take advantage of it

Reading more than during the school year. Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran was a heart wrencher and I cannot recommend it enough

Met my grad school mentor, she’s lovely

Got adopted by a cat, happy to be her second home and her owner doesn’t mind in the least (not that she could stop her if she did. She’s very persistent)

what’s still to come

A (hopefully annual) summer visit from a good friend

More plants! Just picked up a new planter off the curb

More books, just started Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

More time with friends and more adventures to find come July and August

I hope summer is treating you well

[seraphic-diaries]

24.7.23

Back to the grindstone