After years of procrastinating on research papers, sitting through examinations, falling asleep in class (just kidding, I’m a great student), walking up and down campus, and lugging heavy library books, I’m finally done with my Bachelor’s degree… and it feels pretty anticlimactic.
Only five more days of working two jobs…
Only one more presentation, one 8-page paper, and two final exams…
Only seven days until I move into my parent’s house for a month…
Only five and a half weeks until I board a plane to France…
I am excited, but the excitement is bated by a sense of – what is the word? STRESS. I can feel joy once I get through the last few school assignments of my Bachelor’s degree. Pretty soon, I’ll have a lot more time on my hands to be more creative with, to blog, play video games, relax.
Currently, it’s almost midnight, it’s raining (a rare occasion), I’m listening to the Swingin’ Christmas station on Pandora, and burning the Cider Lane candle from B&BW which smells like caramel apple cider. Today, I had no plans or commitments, and consequently took TWO, yes that’s correct, TWO naps, drank hot chocolate and ate a hot apple crumble pastry. Looking back, today has been fantastic.
However, lately I’ve been a little uninspired about what to post on this blog. Apart from looking back at my time in Paris, there’s nothing too exciting happening in my life at the moment, at least exciting, blog-post-worthy things. The highlight of my day yesterday was coming home to my cozy bed; I recently adorned it with some Christmas lights and a red sparkly garland. I also went to Disneyland with my bff Natalie a couple days ago, which was super fun, but usually my life consists of work and school and being a homebody. Yes, there are fun things to do out here, I live close to LA, but for some reason I never feel inspired enough to venture out of my bubble. Probably because I’ve lived here my whole life.
So I definitely didn’t manage to take a photo for every hour I was awake yesterday, but I did manage to capture the feel of my day as it passed by. As expected, there are a lot of selfies, mainly because I didn’t go anywhere interesting. You gotta work with what you got!
After making a rash decision to skip my entire day of classes, watching this video on what it’s really like to move abroad, and hiding like a scared hedgehog under my comforter all day with Bath & Body Works holiday candles filling my room with nostalgia, I’ve realized something.
I can’t get enough of this band, Purity Ring, especially this song called Ungirthed. I found them through a youtuber named Grav3yardGirl. She’s crazy and I love her.