Digging Up A Bush

So today I dug up a bush. I'm currently staying at my grandmother's house, and decided to give her a bit of a hand with the gardening. I'm not sure that the dirt stains will ever come out of my jeans, and my shoulder hurts like hell, but that bush is no longer in the ground and I feel better for it.* This would be the time for me to come up with a great philosophical quote, or say something moving, but really all that went on was that I fought with a bush all day. It took me three large shovels, a fork, a spade and some pruners, that bush got torn out of the ground and I was victorious. And that's all I really have to say.

Cheers,
Talia

*And not just because I got pizza as a reward.

P.S. I've been working on a new/old project. Stay tuned for more.

Connection

In my defense, I was in a play this weekend and over-exhausted myself. That said, I think I am going to change the pace of my blog updates, and instead of simply picking a day, I will instead make a seven-day rule, that I cannot go longer than 7 days without writing a post. It's much more flexible and manageable. It's coming right up onto finals period at this point, and so it really is crunch time. I feel like I'm swimming in a pool of assignments,* and so I don't really have time to dedicate to this blog.

Now, I have a very packed summer ahead, including a trip abroad, and a few other places where I might not be able to write posts at all. Which will be sad. This blog is an experiment, but I think it's working, at least for me. I hope the people who read this enjoy reading about my various thoughts, because I like writing them.

It's my belief that Academia can be quite fun, and while I know that obviously not everyone thinks the same things as me, I always get sad when people reject the arts or the sciences, any kind of them, because I firmly believe that our capacity to engage with others in various mediums is one of the most beautiful things about humanity. Empathy and understanding are essential to us, because at the heart of it we are social creatures. 

I know that some people are introverts, and while I am more of an extrovert, I do sometimes have social anxiety, and I know that people even more introverted than me have much more than that, even they have a select few they let in. People who aren't people people still need interactions, why do you think so many of us find friends on the internet? Anyway, this post is a mess, but I hope that I have left people with things to think about.

Cheers,
Talia


*I just pictured swimming in a poll filled with all my assignments and wondered whether I'd be more likely to get electrocuted or get a paper cut

P.S. I used the word 'people' too often in this post. Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jumping on the Bandwagon

I realized that I don't upload on this blog regularly, not because I can't, but because I only upload when I both feel like I have something to say and when I have the time, which isn't a very common case. I have a large amount of commitments, and not a large amount of time to get them all done. My friend Emily has a blog (which is much better than mine, least of which because she's circumnavigating the globe https://ninescoredays.blogspot.com/) and she updates regularly on Sundays. This schedule helps her keep accountable to all of us who want to hear about her adventures (myself included) and I think I am going to pilfer this idea for my blog.

From now on I will also post every Sunday, as a recap of my week. That said, I will also make shorter posts, and if you care to follow me on tumblr, I also make occasional reblogs there.

Back to Emily, stealing some of her ideas and adapting them for myself is a general trend of mine at this point. It's not that I'm someone who constantly jumps on the bandwagon, more that her ideas tend to be good ones that are easy to replicate. (Other than the whole circumnavigating the globe thing), I'd rather stay in New England for now. We’re finally getting nice weather here after all and despite all the beach pictures she's posting I think Australia is going to have winter soon.