{"id":8,"date":"2015-07-25T22:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T05:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-07-25T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T06:09:15","slug":"35-more-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/2015\/07\/25\/35-more-days-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"35 more days of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Girl it’s nice to see the way you be working hard
\nDon’t nobody really notice you be on your job (job)
\nOvertime, overtime, overtime, yeah”
\nOvertyme – Mishon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That song pretty much sums up my 53 hour work week, which still hasn’t ended.<\/p>\n

I have 35 days left in Vancouver before I go away for 4 months, and I am spinning like a wheel. Between my two jobs and seeing friends and SailBot, I am barely at home. I don’t have the time to read, and when I do I am too tired to start a new book.<\/p>\n

I just realized recently that I will be gone for my favorite season in Vancouver. I won’t be around to see the heat slowly fade and the drops of sun turn into drops of rain. I will miss the local streets blanketed in that warm colour of cartenoid revealing itself.\u00a0Lund will probably have the same colours! But autumn in\u00a0Vancouver will always have a special place in my\u00a0heart.<\/p>\n

I remember last year in October, I took my sister out for a bike ride. We biked\u00a0along Midtown\/Ridgeway to Fraser St and came back, and that’s when I looked up in the\u00a0rare\u00a0clear sky and thought my life was perfect.\u00a0I think I will start making a list of moments when I am\u00a0unhesitating happy. Then probably I will see the best pictures\u00a0flow through that string of memory.<\/p>\n

These last two months feel rushed and squished, like when I’m making a poster and forgot to put in the last paragraph so I try to edit it, shrinking the font, taking away the margins, picking a different font maybe…\u00a0I try to take in as much work as possible at my job, and then see as many friends as I could, scheduling to see them after dinner or between events. I have different messengers to talk to different people, making promises that I don’t\u00a0know if I can keep. I’m\u00a0making plans\u00a0to travel for September, anxious about the little time I have to study and see places. There’s a long list of cities I want to go to. There’s also a long list of things I won’t get done this summer. Dance, karate, swim, road trip.<\/p>\n

I hope I don’t sell out.\u00a0I hope I won’t trade meaningful experiences for a pretty profile picture in\u00a0Spain showing off my bikini. I hope I don’t give up\u00a0studying so I can drink some weird beer in a place whose name I can’t pronounce. I hope I get to see places as souls and not as space.<\/p>\n

I also hope the rest of my year will be on overtime. Never standing still even when I am still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Girl it’s nice to see the way you be working hard Don’t nobody really notice you be on your job (job) Overtime, overtime, overtime, yeah” Overtyme – Mishon That song pretty much sums up my 53 hour work week, which still hasn’t ended. I have 35 days left in Vancouver before I go away for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[990,49412,1052695,89,565211,32,37,232],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autumn","tag-exchange","tag-lund","tag-summer","tag-things-to-do","tag-travel","tag-ubc","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}