#idk if I like the end result I took no breaks and haven’t eaten while drawing this my eyes hurt

[thisnerdsadventures]

march happenings + semester updates

hey everyone! on my spring break, and i’m doing great :) just got back from a trip to DC for fun (where i also unfortunately had a stomach bug that quarantined me in the hotel for a day). here are some things i did in the last month and some things i’m looking forward to for april!

took part in a design exercise for housing

held a quidditch event where we built a $400 lego set and watched goblet of fire. nearly fell asleep at the event because it was dark and i had eaten too many cookies

got pho with my friends! we walked to chinatown from around park street, so we passed by the theatre district, which was fun because one of them is a HUGE fan

saw a celtics game with some of my mitmunc friends and left right before they made a comeback against the kings and right before my friends got their faces on the jumbotronl .i t  s  f  I N E

won our first game with my dorms basketball team! it was legit highlight so far for the semester. we also spammed our dorm 5 times and everyone on campus is starting to know that we have a basketball team and its highkey a meme, but also seriously the coolest thing ever???

getting to know the rest of exec on house gov more!! they’re so cool and awesome, super happy I’m working with them this year. I also applied for an exec position on MITMUNC, so we’ll see if they let me meme with them

got hot pot with my other friends and ate too much at once and then i lied on my floor for an hour strumming my friends ukulele in food coma/pain while she improv vocalized

recorded some electronic music studio stuff, first time for me. if this post gets 10k likes i’ll post it

spontaneously went to see the hacker murals (or the remnants of) with one of my friends. it’s a shame to see them fenced in and being painted over, they really are works of art and school history and should be treated as such. :/

got pizza lunch with my friend [WHO I AM ABSOLUTELY GOING BIKING TO IHOP WITH IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS SOME TIME @YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE]

saw captain marvel!!! i’m super psyched to go see endgame in a month

flew home, going to santa monica tmr with a high school friend :’)

MADE THIS FOR MY CLASS - PLS CHECK IT OUT I THINK ITS HELLA COOL

this is the first spring break in a while that i haven’t felt completely dead going into, and honestly am feeling ready to go back and finish off the semester. I’ve been religiously working out and keeping in shape (i was needing motivation there for a while, but now i’m keeping it up for the bball team), and I’ve been eating pretty well too, tryna cut out excess sugar and dairy. I only had one midterm which i gloriously scored average on (58% raw lol) and almost cried out of happiness because i was starting to doubt everything i knew by the end of the exam, including my name and the date on the exam cover. I also spent the last two days before break working on this report for one of my classes, which i felt either could result in a complete disaster of a grade or one of the best things we’ve ever done, but nothing in between. So i guess we’ll see!!1!!!!1!1

Looking forward to APRIL!!! FOR LIKE SEVENTY THOUSAND REASONS:

i’m honestly treating this whole basketball thing with the same respect i’d treat the high school season, so really putting in my all and eating more and working out on a schedule and practicing a lot more, so that’s gonna be a big part of my april

my company from over IAP is visiting for the spring career fair, so we’re going bowling next wednesday :’)

my friends and i are going to hackDartmouth next weekend!

CPW OF COURSE, IM SUPER EXCITED :D i’m a volunteering a ton for my dorm and for quidditch, and i’m also doing a dorm tour for the first time which should be a whole meme

seeing les mis the week after! with the same friends i went to get pho with

i’m guessing springfest is a thing but idk tbh LOL

two months until i start my internship! so excited for that too :D

also note, good luck to all the kids waiting on ivy decisions!!!! i know they literally come out in like 8 minutes, but seriously, good luck, and remember that decisions aren’t a reflection of your intelligence or worth, that you are enough because you tried as hard as you could at the time and you should be proud of yourself for that!!!! you’ll all end up doing something super cool at super cool places and you’re going to be so so happy, know this <3

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[canaryatlaw]

okay, well today was pretty good, though I’m kinda irritated right now over some stupid shit. but yeah, I slept until I woke up, you know, as one does, and when I woke up it was like, 11:40ish. which is like, average for me on any day, but I felt slightly bad about it because I’m like on vacation and stuff, but like, nobody woke me up, that’s not my fault, they could've woken me up but they chose not to lol so I didn’t feel all that bad. Basically we had said we would see what the weather was like because the forecast has been rain all week, and if it was nice we would go to the beach. Well, it was pretty nice apart from a few dark clouds, so we resolved to go to the beach. Last night my sister had texted me when we got out of the play and asked us to bring her a donut when it was like, 10:30 pm on a Wednesday night and apparently they don’t have any 7-11′s around here so we could not get her a donut. As a result of this, we had planned to stop at dunkin donuts on our way to the beach so she could get a donut. So I changed into my bathing suit and got ready. The bathing suit top I was wearing I’ve owned for like, two years now, and had like tried it on and stuff but never actually wore it because the tag was still on it (like last year I just straight up forgot to bring a bathing suit with me). I have to get bra sized swimwear because I can’t fit into normal bathing suits, so it was a size 36HH, which isn’t really the size I’m currently wearing (the bra I was actually wearing was a 32I but I think it’s just that style, the other few I own are more like 34H or 34HH). so it fit but was a little big, I’m trying to think of how to describe it lol basically there was extra fabric between the bottom of the bra wire and where my chest actually started, but like it was okay. they still kinda stuck out in a way that made me feel kinda awkward, but I found that when I was in the water it stayed in place (which has been an issue in the past, not just with swimming) so I was pleased with that. I made sure I took time to put sunscreen on and make sure it was rubbed in. So we set off for the beach, I went with my girl cousin and sister, my aunt and parents were in the other car. We stopped at dunkin donuts, I hadn’t really eaten anything yet so I got a bagel (bad choice because not New York) with strawberry cream cheese and a “cosmic cotton candy coollatta” which I have no idea how it is different than a normal cotton candy collatta but whatever. They gave me the bagel toasted, which I hadn’t asked for (I think it’s weird that people assume you want your bagel to me toasted??) and with a packet of cream cheese, but without a knife or anything to put it on, so I was inventive and used an extra straw to apply the cream cheese to my bagel lol. So we drove on and made it to the beach, the red flags were up marking certain areas you weren’t supposed to swim in because apparently the rip tide was pretty bad. so we sat for a bit then I went in the water with the girls. A little cold at first but we adjusted quickly, the water was kinda choppy and the waves were breaking really prematurely so we couldn’t really jump any waves in the fashion I generally want to when at the ocean but it was still fun, so we went in for a bit and then retreated to where we set up the chairs and relaxed for a bit. There were some ominous looking storm clouds looming nearby so we started discussing if we were going to leave soon, the adults (actual adults, not including myself who I know am objectively an adult but shhh) wanted to stay a bit more but the girls and I packed up our stuff and headed back. I had seen an ad for dairy queen on twitter that they were doing a promotion where they’re donating money from all the blizzards (if you’re not familiar, it’s basically their version of a mcflurry or friend-z) to local childrens hospitals and I’ve been dying all summer to get one of their special summer flavored cotton candy blizzards (yes I am slightly obsessed with cotton candy flavored things at the moment) but haven’t made it there yet because *someone* doesn’t want to take me.....so I seized upon this moment to make my case to stop at dairy queen, and so we did that, and it was very enjoyable. So we returned to the house and I showered, the overtone deep treatment I used Monday night has still been shampooing out super neon pink (which I kinda love) but it was also my day to use conditioner (I only use it every 3 days so my hair doesn’t get greasy) so I wanted to use my overtone conditioner, so I did and idk if it helped but I’m fairly satisfied with how my hair color looks right now. So after that I went on my laptop for a bit, and the adults arrived and started working on dinner, at which point I snuck back to my room for a bit to do some official lawyerly business (I’m 90% kidding) for about an hour until dinner was ready. My aunt made this mexican bake thing which I’m always a bit wary about because with mexican and similar types of food it’s very difficult for me to be able to tell if I can eat it before putting it in my mouth, but luckily in this case I could eat it so that was good. It was pretty much just tortillas layered with corn, black beans, and cheese, and while I’m generally not a big bean fan it was pretty good. After dinner there was a bit of commotion as we figured out what we wanted to do, we eventually decided we were going to play the game “Psych!” which is done through the phone app everyone has to download and it’s basically balderdash if you’re familiar with that, but basically it asks a question like “what is [player’s name] favorite hit song?” and then everyone has to write an answer and then everyone votes on what answer they like best (without knowing whose is whose) and if someone picks yours you get a point. I was winning for a while but ultimately ended up in 2nd place, which I wasn’t all that miffed about lol it’s not a big deal. We did some of “head’s up” another phone game involving guessing a certain thing with others giving you clues or something like that. I’m the best at clue giving of course so I dominated there, lol. I’m just really good at games in general. The girls went to do something else then and my aunt wanted to find something to watch on netflix or amazon and they eventually settled on this PG movie that was called like “who gets the dog?” or something like that about a couple getting divorced and basically fighting over who gets to keep the dog. So I watched that with them for a while, it was moderately interesting, but then when it was like 10:15 and I knew the legends podcast was going to do their live episode at 10:30 I snuck off to go listen to that. It was fun as always, being in the live chat and making comments in always entertaining, so I enjoyed that (even if they’re not thrilled about Nora). That went on until about 12:30 or so, I did some other computer stuff for a bit and then started writing this. Thrown in between all of these things Jess and I decided we are officially going to be crazy and after spending Saturday at HVFF New Jersey, that night we’re going to fly to Portland and on Sunday do the con there that has Brandon Routh and Caity Lotz, then flying back to Chicago Sunday night. So that should be WILD, definitely looking forward to that. and yeah, that’s pretty much it. don’t really have any solidified plans for tomorrow, I think the girls want to get their nails done so I would probably join them there even though my nails are all super short right now and already somewhat painted, though I’ve let it chip a bit the last few days, so if I got like a gel manicure it could last me a few weeks and I’d be happy about that, and there may also be a mall trip involved, we’ll have to see. Right now it’s about to be 1:30 am so I should probably get to bed. Goodnight darlings. See you in the morning.

#daily journal #August 2018 #Jess tag