Well, that was short.<\/p>\n
It’s no secret that I love school and usually begin to miss it on day 3 or 4 of Christmas or summer break. Not this time – I had an awesome (albeit busy, and filled with studying) Christmas vacation, and I’d be lying if I said I looked forward to coming back to school the day after new years day<\/em>. While we’re on the topic: Whose brilliant idea was that, anyways? (SFU, you win this one.)<\/p>\n Dec 19, 8AM:<\/strong> Day of my last final. Went hard on the cramming.<\/p>\n Dec 19, 11AM:<\/strong> Last final was cancelled due to snow. Studied anyways.<\/p>\n Dec 19:<\/strong> Wrote & sent 20 Christmas cards, mailed them 2 hours before the deadline. House cleaning, day 1.<\/p>\n Dec 20:<\/strong> House cleaning, day 2. Baked 5 vegan tropical cheesecakes.<\/p>\n Dec 21:<\/strong> Bought a Christmas tree. Hauled it home. Decorated it, part 1. Vespers with the crew.<\/p>\n Dec 22:<\/strong> Day of rest. Game night with the crew.<\/p>\n Dec 23:<\/strong> Studied for finals*. Christmas shopping + tree & house decorating.<\/p>\n Dec 24:<\/strong> More Christmas shopping. Celebrated brother’s birthday with dinner + cake. Sat by the fire and watched the nutcracker on VHS.<\/p>\n Dec 25:<\/strong> Made Christmas breakfast. Chilled out by the fireplace. Watched Santa Clause 1 & 2 while peeling potatoes and turnips. Made Christmas dinner. Ate 3x my body weight.<\/p>\n Dec 26:<\/strong> Studied for finals*. Went to one store for boxing day, remembered why I never go out on boxing day and returned home.<\/p>\n Dec 27:<\/strong> Studied for finals*. Packed for Seattle.<\/p>\n Dec 28-Jan 1:<\/strong> In Seattle for GYC<\/a>. Saw tons of friends. Celebrated New Years at the Seattle Space needle<\/a>. Went shopping. Wrote + finished + submitted my article for the CQ. Never ate because I was so excited, and thus, accidentally lost 4 pounds. Arrived home at 11:45pm.<\/p>\n Jan 2:<\/strong> First day of school.<\/p>\n * I actually have two finals and one midterm in the month of January. The two finals are for classes I took last semester that were rescheduled, and the one midterm is from a class starting this semester.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n And so here we are. It still feels very foreign to be back on campus, but I know it’s only a matter of time before those longings of “seeing friends” and “having a social life” and “enjoying free time” give way to “hello my name is Chanel, and I live in the Irving K Barber Library, 3rd floor”.<\/p>\n Just kidding. Kind of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, that was short. It’s no secret that I love school and usually begin to miss it on day 3 or 4 of Christmas or summer break. Not this time – I had an awesome (albeit busy, and filled with studying) Christmas vacation, and I’d be lying if I said I looked forward to coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}