Getting by on the hard days

[grad_wannabe]

Well last night i was in a bit of a funk, getting bogged down in a maelstrom of thoughts about apps, academia, POIs, journals, etc. etc, when I happened to visit one of my favorite blogs and saw a lovely bunch of drawings. 

 

It kind of hit me, "oh snap, I forgot about beauty."

 

so I'm going to go back to my roots as an art student: start drawing again, visit some art and natural history museums, maybe peruse some art to buy. 

[Tall Chai Latte]

Before I got too busy/lazy, I used to go run in the gym when the going got tough and looking forward to my next road race. Sometimes I play video games on my iPad, read self-help books/leisure books, or just sit and do nothing like juilletmecredi. Other times I just keep on keeping on when there's no way to remove the external stress stimuli (like the stress won't go away unless I get the experiment working).

[Mutualimpedancewaffle]

I'd like to say I go for a run or cook a nice meal, but in reality, I just listen to covers of Taylor Swift songs on Youtube