Tag: my day
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Three Retches–I Mean Reps
Yesterday as I was walking to the Smith Fieldhouse gym, I beheld a most disgusting sight. A gym bro came staggering out of the gym and into the hallway, leaning against the wall about thirteen feet away from me. Then, without warning, he vomited more than I have ever seen another living being vomit. Like…
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I Can’t Be Your Snuggle Buddy
I’ve been very sick this weekend — a combination of irritated lungs from the Weezer concert and getting taken out by a cold circulating at work. I visited home over the weekend. I was lying on the hardwood floor, sandwiched between a rolled up rug and a vacuum. (That’s the sort of thing that’s comfortable…
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I’m the Captain Now!
Free will really is a heckuva drug. I realized earlier this week that getting a boating license can be done without ever touching a boat and takes less than a day if you’re a quick study. So, long story short, I have a boating license now. What am I going to do with it? Probably…
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Bring Back Long Name Titles!
I was chatting with my lovely mother today about the meaning behind names. I’m a big fan of mine, personally, because I get to double-dip: I can both sincerely claim my namesake to be the biblical prophetess Anna, and also the potassium-rich fruit Banana. (Long story short: before I had a name, my moniker in…
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The Public Nudity Incident
Note: I have already written this entire post before. But when my blog temporarily ceased to exist, the public nudity incident post was one of the casualties. I don’t know what happened to it exactly, but it no longer exists anywhere I can find. So I’m re-writing this story again! Apologies to anyone who’s already…
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The Orphans Vs Decision Making
Look, it’s no secret I love the Orphans. Everyone knows it, to the point where when I say “the orphans”, everyone from my family members to my roommates to my boss at work know who I’m talking about. I’ve run out of time with them –I say goodbye to Ruby and Kenzi this Tuesday —…
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The Hot New Friendship Gauge: Asthma!
For context: I have zero resentment towards any friend mentioned in this post. It’s just an interesting thing I noticed throughout my life. Take heed! I am not a bitter person. Just someone who likes documenting the ways things shake out. I’ve had asthma for a long time. Okay, kind of. I had it as…
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The Golden Ball of Light Gets Bigger
I didn’t go into my day expecting to have such a lovely time, but that’s just the cherry on top of the wonderful day I had! For context, I’ve been having a crisis about no longer doing animation and switching to something both with a more viable career at the end and something I’m more…
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The Deer
I felt the need to write this story down in its entirety, just because it ended up impacting me in such a way. This happened a little under a week ago, and it just about broke my heart. Caution: this story is not really a happy one. It features the pain and death of a…
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The Blog is Back!
There was a terrifying couple months there for a minute where the blog blipped out of existence. I’ll readily admit that it was 100% my fault, because I was fiddling with settings and accidentally altered the URL. I’m no computer genius, but it was something that even I should have known was a bad idea.…
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Life Beats Me With a Stick
Well. Normally summertime is a fun time filled with friend hangouts, nice weather, and the peak of my exercise life. We’re still in June and I’ve been kind of wrecked. The air conditioning in my house is broken right now. So for reference, the coolest it’s been in there since we’ve entered our swamp era…
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I Magically Develop a Bee Allergy
For some context before we dive into the story, I’m no stranger to cycling through allergies at random intervals with no warning, usually having to find out the hard way that all of the sudden something that was fine for me in the past is a big no-no for me now. As a kid, I…
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The Hot Tub Writes Me Poetry
My family’s at a cabin right now, surrounded by snow mid April (Utah, everyone!) and the cabin we are renting has a hot tub. I’ve been stressed out of my mind, with finals in college and my portfolio coming up, but I came up to hang out with everyone anyway because I would rather die…
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Scar Party!
Yesterday, I got a second-degree burn at work. (I made the rookie mistake of hiccuping while taking a pan of cookies out of the industrial oven.) It hurt like the devil all day, and I definitely alarmed my boss with how chill I was about the whole thing. That’s not really a brag, (okay, it…
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Photosynthesizing My Problems
Today was 50 degrees and sunny, despite it being January. (I don’t know how good that is for the climate, but I digress). The important thing is, I went for a walk and I was hit with a serotonin grenade directly to the dome. Suddenly everything is wonderful and the future is bright and summer…
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Want to Shake Your Name? Come See Me at Work!
I had a beautiful hiccup at work on Friday: in my attempt to call out an “Oat milk boba, for Simon”, I instead used my full barista voice to announce to everyone in the store: “SIMON BOBA FOR OAT MILK!” To his credit, Oat Milk took his boba and new name with grace. I ended…
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2024 Begins!
I didn’t make a new year’s post last night because I was far too busy playing card games with my family and laughing until it hurt. I think that’s a good thing, don’t you? 2023 was…a year for me. I finished high school, got a job, briefly had two jobs, started college, learned I don’t…
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Christmas!
After two years, finally we had a Christmas with the whole family back under the same roof. Everyone’s energy was infectious and delightful all day long, especially with the sheer gift-giving game. From commissioning a local artist to painting one of mom’s favorite walks to 2-foot-long goose stuffed animals, everyone lost their minds. I myself…
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The Nest
Today, as I walked out in the dreary rain, I thought to myself: you know, my bed is like four feet off the ground, and I have a lot of space under there. Maybe I should make a nest. So, I did. The space directly underneath my mattress, against the wall and partially hidden by…
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Eagerly Awaiting My Superhero Origin Story…
By this, I mean that today at work, I somehow managed to yank our heavy cabinet door off its hinges while looking for extra cup stickers. So, basically, I’m ready to fight crime on the streets with my powers. In other news, the first day of December has arrived with snow! Very nice. I need…
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I Accidentally Buy Dinner and a Show
I had no idea what I was getting into. I went to order dinner in the food court—chicken sandwich, naturally—and accidentally got a date. Kind of. What happened was, as I was waiting for my order, a guy walked up to me and was like “so, wanna have a dinner date right now?” (Those were…
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Cousin Burger Stroll
Today, Annika and I decided to go get dinner together, so we walked down to Chom and had a great time. I was really glad we got to do that: it’s not much of a secret that my social life around my dorm is…lacking, to say the least. So going to hang out with someone…
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The Day Gets Weird (My Fault)
First!! The good part: today, I had to get two of my papers for two different classes evaluated. One of them was a casual peer review, but she had no notes for me, which was nice. The second was the library’s research and writing lab, who literally pays people to go over your paper with…
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Evening Classes and Extremely Baggy Eyes
Incredible! As the evening class goes on, I am learning how much capacity my eye bags have to expand. If this keeps up, I will be able to pack my dorm into them and move somewhere with no evening classes. Grumpy tired comments aside, I actually really like my evening class. It’s CSANM150, and the…
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Lighthouse Finished!
My project for CSANM (my midterm, there’s still one to go) is done! I’m not entirely satisfied, but I am proud of it. The textures got a bit tricky (and I’m sad I spent time on things that don’t show up in the final render, like the scratches in the plastic of the blue crates)…
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I Have Bizarre Dreams — Youtube Is Likely at Fault
The majority of my time while working on homework is spent listening to and watching youtube essays; generally about movies. (And, as anyone who knows me for more than a few days knows, I always will have an opinion about a movie.) And my default tends to be horror movies, just because there are often…
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Music Man, More Labs, and Some Things I’d Like to Say to my 14-year-old Self
I went back to the animation lab to work on my project again today. All of the animation labs are named after various studios, but the only one that’s set aside for the pre-major is a dinky little five-computer lab: The Dreamworks lab! (is this a diss on dreamworks? I’ll never know.) All of the…
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Friday In The Lab
Super quick makeup post for yesterday, where I didn’t post because I came home, ate dinner, and zonked out immediately. All I did was go to work, and then head straight to the anim labs where I worked on my project for about five straight hours. Then it was ten pm and I went home.…
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I Scurry Back and Forth Like the Little Rat I Am
Today was busy, busy, busy! From the moment I woke up I went to class, rushed back to the dorm to go to a dentist appointment, rushed from the dentist appointment to class (I was late), went straight from class to the animation lab to work on my project, learned that my computer doesn’t have…
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Sushi and Dinosaur Quotes
Today was $5 sushi day at Sprouts/Smiths, so Izzy and I went and got a ton. It was paradise and definitely something I’ll do in the future. Back to dinosaurs—are you sick of dinosaurs yet? Maybe you won’t be, because in the process of taking notes, I’ve written down some quotes, courtesy of Professor Britt’s…
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A Day Well Spent (?)
Today, I finished unfolding all of the UVs for my lighthouse project. (Aside from the ocean on the horizon that I haven’t gotten around to making yet). It took roughly five hours in one sitting, eight in total. I took a break to take a walk and eat some Trader Joe’s Chicken Tikka Masala, which…
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That Time Mom Bit Me
I stayed home all day Saturday, and came back to the dorm only an hour ago. (It’s now 10:00, as I write.) The title is true! I was trying to get mom to go on a walk with me, and in my attempt to get her phone away from her (she was shopping for rugs,…
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College Moment
I don’t think it’s a secret that college hasn’t been super great for me so far. I mean, like, the majority of it is fine, which is to say that the assignments aren’t too hard. I’d go as far as to say that I genuinely like and enjoy my dinosaur class. No lies there! The…
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Dinosaurs Make Me Sad Today
I am doing research for my dinosaur class and learned several facts about the extinction event that made me sad. Thinking about dinosaurs as real-life animals is all well and good until you realize that they died like animals, and then I want to cry. The main thing that made me sad was learning that…
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Evening Classes are Evil!
Every Wednesday I am forced to reconcile with the fact that I’m still not a night person and will never be. My class starts at 7:00 pm and goes till 9:50–and often later. That right there is a great formula for being tired when you’re in class and wired before bed, since you spend that…
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Halloween!
The amount of people dressed up in college is probably about 20% of the school’s population, but those dressed up were giving 200% effort. Either way, I went straight home after classes and made it just in time to eat some classic mummy dogs. Then, Henry’s friends never showed up to take him trick-or-treating (there…
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All Hallow’s Eve…Eve?
Spending the weekend with Reese was wonderful! Then, of course, college forced me to head back to the dorm for classes or whatever. Luckily, I’m going to go right back home tomorrow for Halloween. I’d call it Halloween Eve, but Halloween is also known as All Hallow’s Eve, so, like the title says, we’re calling…
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An Endless Sea of Pumpkin Muffins
Dad and Joe pulled off the classic move of terrifying and confusing everyone when Joe came to visit for Reese’s homecoming. A flurry of baffled texts from the neighborhood blew up Lucy and I’s phones for a while. The actual homecoming was delightful–cider and pumpkin muffins as far as the eye could see. June was…
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My Drivers License Pays Off
Today I’ve been the #1 errand girl. Drive and pick up lunch? Can do. Drive to buy firewood? Done. Drive to drop something off to the cousins? Check. Drive to dump cardboard in recycling? Sure. Drive to pick something up from the cousins? Can do again. I used to be afraid of driving, but then…
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Reese Returns! We Cry.
Two years is a very long time to go without seeing someone, but everyone else had it easier because they weren’t waiting for Reese to come home. Other people are fine or whatever; but they’re not Reese, so their families should just be patient and wait. Anyway. Waiting at the airport was surreal. Because of…
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Writing During Class
I’m in Writing 150 right now. So, I guess in a way I’m still following the rules. The problem is we’re talking about transitions in sentences for our inquiry drafts, and I already did the entire draft yesterday in an attempt to front-load as much of my work as possible so I wouldn’t be stuck…
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Bobi and Paleoart
The world’s oldest dog died four days ago, at 31 years old. His name was Bobi and they fed him rice and chicken everyday. The one thing I love more than dinosaurs is dogs, because I’ve got one and she is the world to me. Dogs are…well. They’re the best thing to ever happen, really.…
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I’m Free! Also, My Thoughts on Dinosaurs
Today I woke up, and inhaled air through both of my miraculously clear nostrils. I stood up, and I was not dizzy. I am no longer sick!! Between doing sessions of homework, I’ve been thinking about dinosaurs. Well. I think about dinosaurs all the time. Looking up from my creaky dorm desk as I write…
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I Reactivate My Repetitive Strain Injury With a Gourd, More at Ten
I’m lying about the “more at ten” part. But, out of the frying pan and into the fire, right? I’m finally over my sickness (aside from a little residual congestion), so I decided it was time for a new problem. Luckily, I also decided to carve a pumpkin. So, two birds, one squash. I actually…
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Mini-Crisis and a Pitiful College Dinner (Delicious)
Today, I had one of those moments where everything is going suspiciously well. I’ve been feeling way better from my sickness, I had no homework, and I was feeling calm and relaxed. So, naturally, something had to be wrong. I ended up stress-strolling (it’s one of my superpowers!) up to rock canyon (again) and turning…
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Questival and Other Adventures
Today, my college dorm decided to do Questival: the game of a social scavenger hunt, where you do activities like “sing a song to a stranger” or “bake a cake” in order to earn points. The dorm was split into teams, and we were off to the races! Except we weren’t. The activity started at…
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My Sickness Turns Into Boundless Gratitude and Love for my Mother
Waking up this morning, I found that I’m still sick. Like the title says, less so, but I think half of me was expecting to wake up and find the closest doctor examining me while exclaiming “Incredible! You’re the first person to never get sick again!” So, I can breathe much better than yesterday, but…
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The Sickness Takes Hold (and a bonus recipe)
My past week can only be described as a congested nightmare; as it turns out, my immune system doesn’t love me anymore and proceeded to dump the nastiest cold I’ve ever had on me. (Well. It might be more of a “I’m in college now, so my sickness treatment consists of lying in bed and…