Quarantine Chronicles: A Photo Log (1 of x)
It turns out we’re really good at staying at home. Like really good.
2803, 2020
Tag Archives: gratitude
2911, 2019
hitched, etc.
I wouldn’t be lying if I told you that it irks me when people blog about milestones in their lives, say, their birthday, with an air of reflective melodrama.
I also wouldn’t be lying if I told you that it irks me even more when said bloggers start posting about their birthday with a disclaimer that they don’t like talking about their birthday but nevertheless continue to vomit out an entire post pregnant with pensiveness, meandering with mindfulness, and spewing self-awareness of everything save their own bullshit.
1101, 2018
Hong Kong 2017
I haven’t gotten around to finishing even half of my Europe 2017 retroactive posts, and here I am with another trip in my past to mull over. Yet gratitude is a common theme in my life, and I never want to squander this blessing by failing to recognizing it.
So, I understand that Time is writing history faster than we can record it, but why my life is happening faster than my mind can reflect on it is surely not Time’s fault. My life can hardly be considered fast-paced– and trust me I have an inkling of what fast-paced really is after visiting Hong Kong.
…And with that wonderful segue, I’ll elaborate on my Hong Kong and China trip for a bit before resuming with Europe/Scandinavia posts. (How do people deal with reflection backlog anyway??)
2910, 2017
Europe 2017 (Teaser)
Long story short, the culmination of my master’s, besides the thesis defense, was a 10 minute talk I gave at a 4 day conference in Munich this summer. My professor, admirably adventurous and opportunistic himself, encouraged me to take advantage of the lab-paid flight to travel before and after the conference (and, honestly, he fully supported traveling during the conference too). I ended up maximizing this opportunity by extending the 10 minute talk within a 4 day conference to a 70 day adventure that included: two layovers in Iceland (on the way there and back), the conference in Munich (of course), hiking in the Alps, traveling in Scandinavia, and realizing a dream of mine to go WWOOFing (in Norway-“the-happiest-place-on-earth”, no less)!
I am super grateful to my professor for suggesting and encouraging me to extend my trip. Otherwise, I would have flown home right after the conference for the following stupid reasons (and why those reasons were stupid):