Just Roll With It (Tribute to Rick)

New item on my UCLA bucket list: sometime before I graduate, I want to get a medium-to-large-sized rock, and somehow engrave my name in it. Then I shall throw it into the inverted fountain, where hopefully it will stay for a long time. I am not very sure how or why I came up with this idea, but it's going to happen, mark my words.

Ever since last week, I've had a pretty wack sleep schedule from midterms and such. This was not helped at all by my brief return home Friday night to Saturday afternoon, since I went to sleep at around 1:30 the night I went back. Sleep aside though, going home was a refreshing break from the stressful onslaught that is midterms, of which I've completed two. After flying over, the parents and the brother picked me up from the airport, and we headed home. The car ride was quite bizarre for me; never have I been away from home for this long, so I'm pretty sure I rambled a lot on topics including video games and De Neve Late Night food (which happens quite deliciously unhealthy in that I'll-feel bad-about-it-later kind of way).

After getting back to the house, I immediately looked for the family member I was most excited to be reunited with: Meeko! Given the fact that he only let me scratch his chin a little, and then promptly hid, I'm not really sure if he still remembers who I am... Hopefully I'll be able to spend more time with him and get on friendly terms again over winter break, which is (ahem) very soon [holiday music heard faintly in background].

Entering Saturday, I had my orthodontist appointment, which is quite the most trivial reason to fly all the way home for when you think about it. Things went smoothly, and afterwards I had lunch with the parents at a pretty good Chinese restaurant outside of the Asian mall. Then they drove me to the airport, and I flew back to LA (the flight was delayed nearly two hours ugh).

Until now, I haven't missed home much, but going back this weekend kinda made me wish I had more time to spend at home. I dunno.

Please go back and read the first letter of each line.

Home cake is best cake
(happy late birthday yet again mom)
Jonathan drew this and I love it so much






















<3<3<3


What will they come up with next,
vending machines for smartphones?
i like uniqlo tho
NOOOOOOO
(I ate here on special occasions
as a kid many a time)
Obligatory airplane photo

Obligatory airport photo

Comments

  1. Jae-An WangNovember 4, 2017 at 11:49 PM

    This might my most pointless post yet

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Tamika WhitenackNovember 5, 2017 at 1:03 PM

      Also, I don't think any post can be as pointless as my last one about the ABCs

      Delete
  2. Tamika WhitenackNovember 5, 2017 at 1:03 PM

    OMG no I'm impressed by the acrostic poem part. also you went home! the cat <3 and I totally feel it, coming back to school after october break was hard even though I didn't go home, it was so good to see my family and made me realize even more how lucky i am

    ReplyDelete
  3. Cameron RusinNovember 5, 2017 at 1:24 PM

    random, but we have late night too!And they literally remove the healthy options from the dining hall!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pre-School School Fun

Image
Hello friends! I’m officially back at school, but before we get into that I did so many fun school things before classes even started that I need to share! So Wind Ensemble takes a trip every year, and this year we got extra funding from the music department so we got to go Barcelona!!! So I flew back to Tufts a week early and went to the airport with my whole WE gang Tuesday night. Everyone was so excited! We could not believe we were about to be in Spain! Then after a few hours of waiting at the airport we learned that the airline could only send six of us to Spain. We were not about to be in Spain...Because one guy was flying on a different flight and was already in the air, we decided that we couldn’t just leave him to fend for himself in Spain for a week so we sent the six people with tickets to Barcelona while the rest of us rode the subway back to Tufts. After a long night of deliberating what to do and arguing with the airline, we were given free tickets on the airline’s ne...
Read more

tidbits of a peaceful life

Image
 After a long hiatus from this blog site, I am back with some updates on my final semester of college! In typical-Tamika fashion, I'm going to structure this as lists for the sake of ease. The short summary of my life at the moment is that I have a wonderfully interesting courseload but quite relaxed workload, which means I spend a lot of time doing leisurely activities and sleeping (and also applying for jobs/trying to figure out post-grad plans, but I'm intentionally leaving most of that drama out for now...you'll get an update when I have concrete news!). Books I’ve Read Bestiary Rules for Radicals -for class Playbook for Progressives -for class Imagining the Future of Climate Change  Minor Feelings The Color of Air The Gangster We’ve All Been Waiting For Veganism of Color Meet the Food Radicals (in progress) Things I do for class Made beer with Kveik ale yeast Guest speakers from Poughkeepsie Community: Community Matters 2, Real Skills Starting to build a theoretical fr...
Read more

may updates

Image
 I suppose it has been a while! While my lifestyle of running, cooking, and bits and pieces of school and projects hasn't changed much, a lot has happened and spring has truly sprung! It's truly that season, as the goslings are out and I have been hissed at by protective parent geese. Hurrah! Some notes of late: Last class for one of my education classes yesterday! We had a little off-campus party with Exodus, our community partner and the host organization for our formerly incarcerated classmates. It was so cute, and the first party I've had in a long time (because of COVID...) We all got little certificates and there were balloons and cake . And it was so fun to finally meet the non-Vassar students and chat a little bit :) This class has definitely been a learning experience and motivates me to more actively seek out relationship building with those whose life experiences are vastly different from my own. Monday was also my last real class for BIO, where we finished up ou...
Read more