I’m going to try to have a new adventure every [...]]]> It recently occurred to me that I do vary few adventurous things in my life. I’ve spent one too many post explaining that my life is pretty much the constant repetition of a few activities, and that has got to change.

I’m going to try to have a new adventure every week. Not necessarily something big, but something new and maybe sort of scary (but probably not). Here goes!

For the vast majority of people, this adventure is going to seem so banal that it’s not even funny, but it’s sort of a big deal for me. See, for as long as I can remember, I haven’t eaten fish. My parents were worried about allergies, so I didn’t have it as a kid, then I guess I tried it and didn’t like it, and I haven’t eaten anything with fish in it in at least ten years.

Note : Yes, this is the first post, and yes it is labeled #2. That’s because the big adventure that sort of inspired this series thing happened chronologically long before the tuna curry, and I’ll put up the write up soon, I just have to sort out photos and stuff.

♥ Rosie

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That’s about it for the last few days. I’ve actually done some other stuff, but most of those things are getting their own post in a new thing I want to try writing about, so the photos will be up over the next few days.

♥ Rosie

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Basically the last almost two months have been procrastinate/procrastinate/oh shit homework/sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep/procrastinate/Skype/procrastinate/squeee about university stuff/oh shit homework/repeat endlessly for 52 days. I guess the photos don’t show that, but even I don’t want to take endless photos of my computer screen.

It’s not for lack of ideas, more from a general lack of motivation to get anything done. For a [...]]]> Once again, despite the multitude of clocks in my room, time had completely slipped away from me. We’ve gone from the depth of winter to a beautiful summer’s day (for now!); and I haven’t written anything.

It’s not for lack of ideas, more from a general lack of motivation to get anything done. For a while there I didn’t live so much from day to day and more project to project, the only punctuation in my life being tests and deadlines. Even though I still have two huge deadlines coming up, and my final exams in May, there’s something in the sun that makes me want to do more than study and waste my nights on tumblr. I know, I know, shocking.

I also belatedly came to the realization that everything is changing. Isn’t that a scary thought!? I say this every time, but I want to remember who I was, what I was thinking, what I was passionate about. Here’s to another fresh start!

♥ Rosie

If these seem dull, you really don’t want to see what I’ve been looking at for the rest of my days – spreadsheet, spreadsheet, word document, spreadsheet, assigned reading, spreadsheet, screaming [...]]]> Things have been busy lately, but I’ve still been taking photos, so here’s a quick glimpse at what’s been eating up my time lately.

If these seem dull, you really don’t want to see what I’ve been looking at for the rest of my days – spreadsheet, spreadsheet, word document, spreadsheet, assigned reading, spreadsheet, screaming child, spreadsheet. You get the picture!

As you can probably tell, we’ve had loads of assignments lately, the largest of them being a huge math project we handed in today. Said math project is also the reason for the last photo. When we all got to math class this morning, there were two questions being asked : “Did you finish?” and “How much sleep did you get?” Seeing as we’re total nerds, we felt the need to make a table to keep track of how much (or little) sleep everyone got the night before. I think it’s safe to say that with 1.5 hours, only half of the next shortest time, I won on that front. Or maybe I lost. I’m not too sure.

And with that, I need to go to bed, because tomorrow morning there’s a whole other set of essays and lab reports just waiting for me.

♥ Rosie

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I’ve come to realize that maybe the problem isn’t that I have too [...]]]> I’ve always been under the impression that I tend to bite off more than I can chew, and that there just isn’t enough time in the day to properly do everything I’d like to.

I’ve come to realize that maybe the problem isn’t that I have too much to do, it’s that I try to do too much at once. Maybe it isn’t that I’m simply not capable of doing everything I’d like to, it’s that I don’t work effectually enough to get anything done.

I’ve never been a very focused individual, so keeping my mind on one task for long enough to finish it has always been a challenge. When I write an essay, I don’t write an essay. I write a few sentences, I make some tea, maybe see what’s happening on twitter, write a few more sentences, talk to a friend on skype, eat an orange, write a paragraph, check on the scrabble games I’m playing, write a few more sentences, etc., etc.

I always get what needs to be done finished on time, but I feel like I never get things done to the best of my potential.

For better or for worse, I happen to be an incredibly willful, and ever so slightly spoiled, person. As such, I tend to refuse to not get what I want, not so much in a material sense but in a more general sense. I want to finish my physics course? Well fuck, I’m going to finish it, even if it means extra stress and extra work and a less than ideal mark. So this is it. I’m refusing to let something as dumb as a fidgety brain stop me from reaching my potential!

I still don’t have a clue as to how I’m going to manage this change, but there will be change. I guess the first step is probably to just stop jumping around and get shit done, so let’s start there, yeah?

♥ Rosie

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Yet again, I was wrong. Stuff got busy, [...]]]> When I started the photo-a-day-for-a-year project, I was, like the last two times, utterly convinced that this would be the one. This would be the time when I finally figured out persistence, when I finally got through it, and actually had a year to look back on.

Yet again, I was wrong. Stuff got busy, I panicked, dropped everything and under the covers. When I started missing days, I was ready to give up, To accept it as yet another I have failed. But when I really thought about it, that was pretty much a really dumb idea. I didn’t drop my advanced math classes when I failed a test, I worked harder and did better the next time. So I’ve had set backs, but they’re in the past and now I’m looking forward.

And now, in no particular order, the photos I have taken lately:

I thought I’d taken far fewer, but a photo every two days isn’t so bad.

Here’s too the future though, because I will get it right eventually.

♥ Rosie

PS: You can follow TiR on bloglovin  if you’d like to know when I’ve posted something (and there will be somethings soon!), and I’m on twitter and tumblr all the time, so please come visit me there. ♥

The way a place feels always changes with the seasons and with the weather. Streets that were bright and full of life on a sunny August morning are sad and seem dead in November when it’s raining. A single place can be surrealistically beautiful one day, and yet utterly decrepit the next.

Despite the numerous wonderful moods of a place, I still think the most amazing time to be out in town is after dark when it’s snowing lightly. The swirling snow in the orange of street lights, the way everyone else is just a blurry black silhouette. For a little while, I’m not walking streets I know all too well. For that short time, I’m in some other place, or maybe some other time, and that is truly magical.