#day log

[zoogies]

just finished a mock final for english that was EXHAUSTINGGGG but i can’t tell if it went well or not — i asked for feedback on it though so we shall see 🤞🤞

[musemarrie]

Day One of Runic Journey:

Fehu ᚠ

This Rune was a little confusing to me at first. But now, I sort of see it as a “What you give is what you get” kind of energy. It is defined as symbol of wealth, prosperity, new beginnings, and perhaps creativity ventures. That is what confused me at first, questioning if it represents wealth in terms of money, which it can, but it less about the outcome of the money and more so about the start of the journey that will eventually bring wealth. Perhaps it can be seen as the promise of a reward if the hard work is put in. I read also, “Money makes more Money” which perhaps represents that one already possess the knowledge or ability to create this abundance.

So, today I had drawn the Fehu Rune on my left wrist and activated it with the intention to “Bring me clarity to understand my creative purpose, perhaps in a way that will allow me to make money.” Now, I did not lead the day in a very Fehu way, as in, I didn’t put in much work. For most of the day, I felt a sort of dread and sadness over myself and my lack of change for the better. But, I suppose Fehu is most about planting the seed for a harvest later, it’s a slow-burning candle. I spoke with my ‘Knight of Wands’ ancestor more closely today; he gave me insight on our relationship and what I need to work on which I suppose is good, to have a healing seed be planted, but it wasn’t necessarily involved with my intention.

Some time past in the day before I finally decided to try and do a creative venture. I have been thinking about creating vlog style videos and I have filmed some footage that I haven’t started to edit. I started to edit the beach vlog and a certain happiness and nostalgia was brought back. I used to make calm videos like this even though no one ever saw them besides friends (they are rather boring). But I will only learn from doing, so I will put out anything without worry of it being boring or even embaressing.

I am someone who likes many things and seems to never be able to choose one path. To focus on just one creative venture seems difficult— but it is also what Odin and my ‘Knight of Wands’ ancestor have encouraged me to do. Odin has told me that creating these lifestyle videos will bring me peace and happiness, if done for my enjoyment. I will try to do this venture for now, and perhaps it could eventually encouraging me to start others — like drawing or playing music again.

Overall, I have learnt a little about the Fehu Rune and perhaps planted the seed for my creative venture. In my view, I did not have a good, “productive” day. But it is one small thing— perhaps it is fitting for Fehu.

[learning-to-think]

September 9th 2020 || Wednesday

I finally got back all the files I had lost a few weeks ago!!! (mainly happy to get my wip back but also so many school stuff!!)

Studied a bit two OpenLearn courses to prepare myself for uni

🇮🇹: Nouns / gender and plural

I also took a bit of time to try things on Notion, to get the hang of it :3

🎶 I'm A Wanted Man — Royal Deluxe

[eintsein]

tuesday, 3 sept

8:30 - 9:00 woke up, showered, changed

9:00 - 9:30 breakfast while reading Agorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

9:30 took the bus to central campus. I live on west campus and there’s a slope that’s like 150 - 200 ft in elevation and I am not climbing that every day lmao

10:10 - 11:15 first class - INFO 2450: Communication and Technology. Actually still waitlisted for this class but I really hope I do get in

11:40 - 12:55 second class - GERST 1170: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud. got a pretty cool assignment to blindly analyze Reclining Woman on a Leopard Skin (link)

1:00 - 1:30 had lunch at west campus—read stuff on tumblr abt steven universe the movie

1:30 - 2:00 went to check out this hotel but it turns out it’s out of business

2:00 - 4:00 revised INFO 2450 by combining lecture notes, the lecture slides, and my own notes from the book we’re reading. then started watching the online lecture videos for my intro italian class (ITAL 1201)

4:00 - 5:00 took a break and planned out my semester, i.e. marking down exam dates, deadlines, etc. also watched the great british bake off collection 4.

5:00 - 5:45 watched more italian lecture videos and tried to read the textbook and honestly i cannot remember any of this gendered stuff

5:45 - 8:00 had dinner with a friend and took a walk from west campus to north campus and back to west campus, which is a ~45 minute walk in total

8:00 - 10:00 revised and refined the art essay and then drafted up this post

10:00 - 11:00 practiced bass—found out my dorm has a music room that’s soundproof and has a piano and an amp !! practiced in my room today tho bc it was late

[probably-cryptid]

Day 19 of quarantine: Me and my parents used stale tortillas as frisbees in the front lawn and Cooper (our dog, 9) kept trying, and successfully, eating them.

[knock-kneed-penguin]

🌛Productivity Log🌜

•studied italian for 1,5 hours finally managed to make it to ruby league on duolingo(yay!)

•cleansed my tarot cards with some salt and crystals also did a daily reading

•spent an hour embroidering a really pretty pattern from @gayspacezombiee

•did puzzle for 4+ hours (i literally just started this one)

•worked on a sketch for 30mins or so

•read 70 pages of book

[athornedenglishrose]

making plans for my gap year

So. 

As you could probably work out from either the fact that I’m doing A Levels, and that I tag everything as senior year, I’m leaving school at the end of this academic year. I’m not choosing to go to uni this year though, instead I’m following in the hallowed English school tradition of doing a gap year (pronounced gap yaaaar - if you don’t get the joke look up Jack Whitehall talking about it). 

I won’t be 18 at the beginning of my gap year though, which means I can’t do a lot of the traditional gap year-y things, so planning it has been rather difficult. I hadn’t been able to find anything I wanted to do...until this week when I got offered two jobs in the space of twelve hours. I shall now be travelling and working as a nanny for a family and also working as a charity liaison for my alma mater. 

So, what the aim of this post is is to reassure anyone who doesn’t know what they want to do when they leave school that they shouldn’t worry. I know that teachers and parents can get on your back about what you want to do, but honestly the universe has an amazing way of making things fall into place. To those of you who have absolutely no idea, just make the most of this year - you’re about to finish a process that you’ve been a part of for over a decade, so just take any opportunity you can (within reason of course) and enjoy this time. If people pressure you remember it’s your life, not theirs. 

[reallystudies]

🏷 19/04/17

💡 Currently loving @studykyt‘s spreadsheet revision log to help me plan my study time until finals weeks hit! It’s weirdly motivating to enter in the hours as I go and see those little bars progress to be honest. Also, that indecent amount of calculus is something I got myself into, not a usual situation.

🕯 Spent the afternoon studying at the library from 2 to 6 pm working on math and an oral presentation on Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for death” and the bookshelf next to me caught my attention for for having a witchcraft section - in the midst of which I found a delightful self-help book from the 60s simply called “The Book”. I feel like there’s an irony there I’m failing to grasp fully.