slice of life | productive days in my life, cooking, living alone, writing midterms & self care

It's actually sweater weather and I I'm so excited because as you saw in my closet, I have So many sweaters. During my undergraduate studies, I somewhat developed a habit of thrifting and shopping compulsively. So I've just collected an obscene amount of sweaters of every kind. I'm wearing one of my favorites. I haven't worn this one for quite some time. better because you can actually see my sweater but I'm wearing this Attack on Titan crew neck and It's just like fan-made merchandise; it's not official. or anything, and I used to get so many questions About it, I feel like every time I wear crewnecks, it just gets me in the mood for exam studying because I used to wear crewnecks exclusively Whenever I make study vlogs, I have two midterms. Next week I wrote a final a couple of days ago. that's why I look so damn tired, basically I want I want to bring back my sweater collection. You need to know the daily doses. I know the minimums can You know the minimums. I think maybe for 17 So for real, I haven't been productive for the last two to three hours because I took a final exam this week and it was on a Friday It's so dark outside it's raining. And I basically just want to make soup, so that's what I'm going to do. What I am going to do now I'm making mille-feuille nabe soup. or some people think it's like hot pot, so I just quartered a Napa cabbage—I have the other quarter in here just draining off. and some beef chuck rolls now you Traditionally made with pork, but I got the wrong thing. so I'm just going to make do and it's Honestly, really simple—I have the dashi boiling on the stove. and the most preparation is just this layering part I have stuffed both quarters of the napa cabbage with the beef and then now I'm going to I'm going to cut it up and try to fit everything into a pot like this. Oh my God, this pot It's so small, wait, how Am I going to fit? All of this is right here with me. so hungry and I couldn't have dinner if I didn't have A show they recently added to Netflix is Bones. And if you guys didn't know, I still love This show, this was like my Grey's Anatomy. I'm so happy they brought these back. and I'm going to watch the older seasons really good with a bowl of rice really good with a bowl of rice but all the recipes online said you shouldn't have it with rice, so I didn't make any, but now I really regret it—it looks like and then I have a little chili oil and like the ponzu sauce I made according to the recipe but I normally don't have ponzu, but it Tastes really good But I've got you, you know. the black bean Short ribs, oh yeah I know, and I just have to say, Mom made me so many wings. Oh, there are pork chops. Stores. No, yeah. Two Pork chops, and then she made me rice in the container Okay What I feel bad about, though, is that Mom is always getting boils. the pasta with the pasta sauce Even though I could probably boil my own pasta I'm sure you could boil it yourself, so I wouldn't even bother you with it. Yeah, and I guess she gave me this bag, I don't know the bag, yeah, and now I'm all stocked up for my My thing. I just submitted my 40% take-home midterm exam and I need to show it to you. my screen and the chaos behind it, because look at this. This is the situation. I had all of my different notes open. I had so many different studies open. I even created an account for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Because I wanted to find a very specific reference. I just submitted it, and now I can close it. my four million open tabs And now I can start studying for my 20% midterm that's in two days. Hey, hey, hey! I have a midterm in less than five hours, and I still haven't covered all the material. of the content, which is approximately a month's worth of content so I need to lock the fuckin' door right now before I completely embarrass myself, so let's get studying. I have just been studying for the last 50 minutes. My timer is right here; I've gotten through a number of the modules now some of them were just review because I did attend class and Some of them we've just studied multiple times. times before such as like prescription checking and documentation lectures so that I feel somewhat okay about needing to review my injection landmarking and needle stick injury lecture, which should also be quick 30 slides, I feel like at this point I I'm just praying that my community pharmacy experience is going to carry me, especially for injection landmarking and needlestick injuries because I I am injection certified and we practice new injection sites, I have to leave my apartment for class in essentially half an hour Then I have class for an hour, and after that, I have the midterm. So I don't know if I'm actually going to cover everything, I might actually be really ******* cooked So anyway, that's the update. Got back in from writing that midterm and it definitely wasn't my best, but I'm trying to just Let it go because after writing a final and two midterms within less than a week—I deserve a break, and I actually ordered two new books and they just came in, I got the second book of the A strange series by Yuketsu—I read Strange Pictures over the summer. and reviewed it a couple of weeks ago back, and I really liked it, so I wanted to pick up the second one. and a lot of you guys also mentioned that It was really good and I recommended it. So I'm super excited to read this one; I'm sure it's going to be Another easygoing read—this one is actually less than 200 pages. So I'm probably going to finish this tonight and the second book I picked up Is Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke? I'm not. I'm not sure if that's how you pronounce it, but I've heard it. This is a really good book by some of My friends, so I'm excited to try it out—it's a self-help book. which I'm excited to read again Because I've just been reading fiction fan fiction primarily. and romance, so this should hopefully Get some grooves back in my brain, so let the post-exam routine begin. Guys, you have no idea how much I've missed reading. I feel like I haven't had any time to do any of my hobbies. but I finally got around to reading. I'm about 35 pages into Dopamine Nation. And I have to say the intro was a bit surprising. I didn't expect the story to start this way. And I'm not going to spoil any of it. And so this book is about exploring why the pursuit of pleasure leads to pain and it covers addiction, and it was written by this psychiatrist Stanford, and it's been interesting. So far, it's a little shocking, as I said at the beginning, but I'm really liking it, and it's a really easy read—I feel it's Not really into wrapping my head around it too much around I feel especially when it comes to talking about this kind of stuff because I feel like you learned about it a lot in school So yeah, I'm I'm going back. to reading Centella Asian extract Centella Asiatica Extract ------- why your toes You're in it, oh centella asiatica extract—did you learn about it in pharmacy? School? What the hell, it's good. It's good to help; helping is so good, it's so good. It's so good! Why do you love it? So good, it's so good. accentuating my dark circles, but I'm truly, truly tired because I was running around so much this Good morning, obviously, and then I had lab. and then I'm just trying to slow down, which is why I did all my linen laundry, but I do have to study Since the midterms are coming up, I'm honestly probably not going. to do a lot because I want to go to bed early tonight And it's already pretty late in the day. That's one downside of having an afternoon lab. So we'll see how much I can actually get done. I'm going to log in for another study session, probably for about an hour. and a half, and then I'm probably going to call it quits. But I feel like I've seen a bunch of comments. from you guys asking me like how I stay so motivated Or how do I just study for so many hours a week. And if I were to boil it all down to a single thing, It's basically just grit or discipline. You have to do what you have to do, even if you don't want to do it. And I feel that's mostly true in school. Many people feel that way. Do I want to stare at a screen for about 8 hours a day, or for two hours tonight. Not really, like I love learning, But there are other things that I would also love to do. I would love to read. I would love to play my Switch. I'd love to call my friends and just, like, You know, yip yap with them. But there are things that must be done. That's why I do them. It's not always fun and games, okay? That's what I'm trying to say.