This past week I was on fall break! I had a bunch of plans but I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t do most of it. I realised that I’m not good at doing a little bit of everything every day; I’m better at spending one day doing one thing and another day doing another thing. Or maybe one big thing and one or two small things per day. I don’t know if this is something I should work on or work with, but it’s something I have to figure out for days I don’t have classes to structure my schedule (like, every day of fall break).
Kat x Eggie
Earlier this year, one of my blogging goals was to do a photoshoot a month, and I did pretty well keeping up with it during the first half of the year (spring semester of junior year). However, I stopped doing photoshoots over the summer because I wasn’t seeing very many people, and the people I was seeing, I wanted to spend quality time with and not shoot photos. Coming back to school for senior year, I haven’t been picking up my camera very often, but I’ve been creative in other ways, thanks to the intro design class that I’m taking.
Scrunchies, leaves, food // weekly update
It was a rough week man! I’m just glad that it’s finally fall break! I spent my previous weekend working on finishing the “zeroth” draft of my senior thesis, which meant that I didn’t do any work for any of my other classes, which meant that I was playing catch-up throughout the week and staying up late to complete assignments. I was looking forward to recovering this past weekend, but my schedule has been packed, what with everyone wanting to celebrate and hang out before they leave for their fall break trips. I’m just staying in Philly though–got lots of things to do! Did you see my fall break plans?
Fall break 2017 plans
Last fall and spring break, I filled my days with creative endeavors, and since I haven’t been working on my own creative personal projects this school year so far, I thought that I would use my fall break to make up for it (I wanted to try an Instagram challenge and the 10×10 wardrobe challenge). But alas, there are too many things for me to do, so I won’t be able to go as overboard as I usually do (last fall I tried a new recipe, shot my new watch, had an autumnal photoshoot with friends, and made cookie butter freakshakes–even I’m impressed!). BUT. It’ll still be a great fall break, and my future self will thank my past self for being productive. And I’m actually interested in the work I’m doing, so that’s a plus.
Green Engine Coffee
I live just a minute away from Green Engine Coffee. Somehow I managed to resist getting daily coffees last year, but this year not so much. It’s probably because my class schedule is light, so I’m not in class often, but my workload is heavy, so I need a place to work. I’ve tried working at home so as not to spend too much money on coffee at cafes I loiter at, but I never seem to be able to stay on task in the comforts of my apartment; the desire to cosy up and do nothing is too strong!
But despite the many mornings and afternoons I’ve spent at Green Engine, I’ve never gotten any food there before. When Grace (my friend and neighbour!) told me about her weekly ritual of grabbing Friday morning brunch at Green Engine to celebrate surviving the week, I was happy to join her!
Sleuths, mice, mooncakes // weekly update
I had a long weekend this weekend! It wasn’t particularly eventful for me since I had to work on my thesis draft all weekend, but I had a long weekend nonetheless! UPenn was on fall break starting Thursday, which meant I didn’t have my Thursday 4:30PM-7:30PM class, and my linguistics senior seminar cancelled class to give us time to work on our thesis and turn in our first draft (“Draft 0”) by Sunday night, so my last class of the week ended Thursday at 1:00PM and my weekend commenced!