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Cabin, Maine. 20Sep2020 - 24Sep2020.

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It’s been... six months since I started a new routine. Night shift life meant coming home in the pale winter light and going to sleep at noon or later. It meant staying up on days off to enjoy reading (I’m on book 31 of 2020!) and the quiet. Then the virus happened, my job became busier than ever--and finally spring is here. The sun is bright again. But not much of my routine has changed.

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Included in things I am angry about this morning: Why are scowl and frown synonyms I HATE it

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I would buy both in full-size! 

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Hello 2020!

I reflected on 2019: I applied to 10+ PA schools, saw NYC from the view of someone I love, flew to Italy and Switzerland, hiked a rigorous route to a beautiful view, enjoyed Martha’s Vineyard in the fall, and started a job with a wonderful company culture.

Entering 2020 after the holiday season, my schedule is now flipped due to working third shift. I sleep from 0900-1600h, and blackout blinds have become my best friend. I’ve recalibrated my routine. I’m still able to see my friends and family and spend plenty of time working on myself, reading, and strengthening my body. 

I have a lot to learn this coming year, having also turned 25, and a part of me is tense and ready to spring--there have been that many changes in my life in just the past two months. 

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illegible handwriting, coffee rings on notebooks, putting gloves on only to take them off again, dark lipstick, maurice (1987), walking to class when it’s not raining enough for an umbrella but just enough to fog up your glasses, stone buildings, leaves that aren’t quite crunchy, deadlines, pen smudges, leaving class only to find out its dark outside, cinnamon, cold noses, swaying trees, half moons, cuffed sleeves, silence 

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Two shifts left, and then I begin my new job the following Monday. It still doesn’t feel real. I don’t think it will for a while.

I’m recalibrating my life constantly, adjusting for new priorities and telling myself that it’s ok that the PA applications I’ve sent (expensive as shit, btw) have garnered no positive results so far. My mother reminds me my new job will give me a taste of another good option in the sciences. Not everything bio-related is medicine or research. In any case, I just have to move forward and not dwell.

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I finally bought a 24oz tumbler. Good size for venti beverages.

I’ve spent the past few hours transferring iCloud photos into my external hard drive to get rid of wasted storage on my phone. This is thrilling content.

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Halloween hasn’t even passed yet and I am already thinking of Christmas gift ideas.

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- I need to go to LabCorp for a urine drug test (new job stuff!).

- I had to cancel a sushi lunch date with a friend because I am congested and I cannot taste anything. I could not live with myself if I paid $40 for all-you-can-eat sushi and couldn’t taste any of it. 

- My boss has approved my resignation. My last day is Oct 31. Why am I working on Halloween! 

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Life is so kind to me. I am always grateful and humbled. The mornings sitting on the front porch, reading and sipping coffee, accompanied by people who matter to me, the sun rising above the tree line down the hill--it is these small things that make me appreciate all of these blessings.

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All about that canvas life.

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I have two 12hr shifts left before we leave for Martha’s Vineyard. I’m making the plan while eating a lemon pound cake and sipping oolong tea I purchased from Fresh Market today.

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- I want to try uniform dressing. It would save me the time, the energy, the decision-making, and would curb some leftover capitalistic urge to spend more on expanding my wardrobe.

- Look into the PA school process in the UK. Over there, physician assistants are called physician associates. Something new I learned today.

- Work out until I’m sore. Make use of my new foam roller.

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I’ve been sick the past few days. After spending the first day of it bedridden I am now walking about out of my pajamas, planning my day, sipping some lemongrass tea (my fave).

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