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Romanticising my sick days off

It’s my third day off college today and although I despise missing my classes, I’m way too sick to go in. Instead, this is how I’ve been keeping my sanity and ensuring I don’t fall behind.

• Soooo many cups of tea. From English breakfast to chamomile and honey to jasmine green tea, as much tea as I can get my hands on

• Taking the time to make myself a cute healthy lunch to stay motivated (and asking my parents to help me make one when I’m too ill to get out of bed)

• Catching up on work while curled up under the blankets. Slowly! I’ve had to take many a break. Remember to be kind to yourself, especially when ill <3

• Always having comfort shows or vlogs on in the background. Darling Desi’s YouTube Channel has been my saviour

• Opening my blinds every morning when I wake up to say hello to the world

• Taking the time to just sit and let myself rest. Remember you’re not resting if you’re worrying about everything you have to do! Take the time to simply look after yourself.

• I have been manically planning my book. Shockingly my best ideas have come from feverish episodes. Probably not the best method but oh well, the hyperfixation must be fed.

• Again with the tea- the noise of the kettle has become my favourite noise.

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I have been struck down with the plague. I am horrifically ill. However I had been advised to drink plenty of hot drinks.

Here is my tea log from today <3

1. English breakfast

2. White tea, coconut and passion fruit

3. English breakfast

4. Super berries

5. English breakfast

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Chaotic academia in my college week- #1 of 2025

• Spending every free moment in my lit teacher’s classroom with my friends

• Freaking out over my ‘on course for grades’ in graphics and art, and started The Great Lock In Of 2025’

• Neeking out about poetry analysis as usual in my lit class

• Spending a free period with my best friend doing art homework while watching Lego Monkie Kid because we’re both severely hyper fixated

• Finishing all of my graphics homework in lesson due to The Great Lock In. I will be using this phrase a lot I fear.

• Yapping away about how The Secret Garden feels like warm sunlight in our secret book club (ssh)

• My art teacher had to reassure me that my grade will go up and it’s only because it’s the first term, and not to panic.

• Getting way too excited to learn about the 50s in Lit

• Realising just how much animating I have to do on my EPQ and panicking and thus starting even more Great Lock In sessions

• Helping my lit teacher find art of Dracula and Harker kissing (don’t ask)

• Planning a Larkin themed tea party with said lit teacher

• Reading out a poem in our dead poets society! I’m usually too scared to

• Working on my EPQ in my lit teacher’s class during a free because the coffee shop makes me nervous

• GETTING A GIRLFRIEND?!?!?!

• Staying up till one making said girlfriend a playlist

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Appreciating the little things in my day

• The much-too-large pile of cinnamon I piled on my yoghurt for breakfast

• The sun filtering through my window in the early morning

• Watching my favourite movie as I get ready (Carol for anyone wondering)

• Making a spicy chai with matcha along with rice cakes with chilli jam

• ABBA blasting on the record player

• Painting my nails dark red while it chucks it down with rain

· Having a cold shower after going perhaps a little too hard in Just Dance

· Sat in bed editing Cate Blanchett

· Watching the sunset from my window

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Romanticising summer- part 1

(As an incredibly autumn/winter person)

Bitter iced coffees keeping you cool

Edges of book pages lightly crinkled from water

Appreciating each cool breeze that blows past you

Writing or reading until the sunset fades

Or getting up at the crack of dawn to write and read lit only by the sunrise

Evening walks when it’s still light

Slowly rotating your position sat around a tree all day to keep in the shade

Having that one little shady spot you’ve found and have named yours

Stargazing while the nights are warm

Seeking out somewhere cool so that you can justify having just one cup of tea

Drying flowers in your old books

Writing little letters to your friends while they or you are away

Or just writing letters anyway. Trust me, it’s incredibly fun

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Stupid things I did on my first day of college

(I’m British so this is the equivalent of the last two years of Highschool.)

• Immediately hid in the library until it was time for tutorial

• Neeked out in a literature quiz after telling myself I wouldn’t be a neek on the first day

• However I did win a chocolate orange so no regrets

• Wore an outfit so iconic I got told I looked like I was one of the teachers

• Panicked and started quoting Oscar Wilde to my literature teacher really loudly

• Joined a Dead Poets Society!!!

• Forgot I had a free period and rocked up to my tutor’s class and sat down until I realised I was not in fact meant to be in that class

• Then spent said free period sat cross legged on the grass reading a book (after leaving the class in shame). It was great.

• Ended up mentioning Carol after telling myself I would be normal about it for once in my life

• Went home and managed to find the PowerPoint for the whole lit curriculum this term and just like started doing the work early

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Watching Dead Poets Society with a cup of tea while doing art homework <3

Also does anyone have any similar movies to recommend? I’m in a movie mood.

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Thursday college roundup

I think I'm going to make this a daily thing because it's shockingly fun.

· Started off the day by buying a cup of tea and sitting in the very much empty coffee shop during my free period

· Wrote an essay analysing a poem that I'd been set while watching the rain and drinking my tea

· Then read poetry until the end of the period

· Handed the essay to my lit teacher who was flabbergasted I'd done it so soon

· Went to the library with my friend and we read together

· We then went off campus and sat under some trees in the grass for a bit

· Went to my EPQ class only to find out it doesn't start till next week

· So then sat outside with two other friends on free periods

· Laughed with water in my mouth. It exploded. EVERYWHERE. It came out my nose and it was painful. Hilarious, though.

· Spent all of fine art sat on the floor drawing a bin. As one does.

· Panicked because I lost my headphones but found them again!

· Had a low blood sugar right as my bus came. Bloody terrifying

· Ate a load of sugar on the bus. All is well now :)