a monday in my life

 Here is a day in my life, a Monday! Mondays are my busiest day, I'm out of the house on campus for 12 hours usually. The account of yesterday (April 12)

My alarm goes off at 653. I snoozed three times then got up and went pee and brushed my teeth then changed and popped out for a morning run.

Spring is here and I relished in the rain cleansed air and flowering trees lining the streets and colorful daffodils and bulbs peeking up in residential gardens. A good morning jaunt!

A quick abs workout and Yoga with Emily finished up the morning exercise ritual, then quick shower, breakfast and Duolingo practice before heading out for the day!


Bike to the art class. Some gesture poses, which is an opportunity for more yoga haha. Then a longer sitting pose and an even longer lying down pose, listened to a friends vassar podcast and made more progress on autumn and Adrienne maree brown’s podcast, how to survive the end of the world. Literally I get paid for podcast nap time basically!


Quick library visit to make a color scan of a bean drawing and then lunch at Alana before Lab.


Lab was 2 hours of trying to code with qiime and discovering that technical difficulties and copy and paste and challenging! But we eventually managed to generate our sample graph of dna analysis. Definitely coding is....not for me.


A spontaneous afternoon baking activity with the babysitting kids! New neighbors moving in tomorrow from France so we were making welcome cupcakes. Started in the backyard and then it started raining so relocated to a plastic tablecloth on the porch. Vanilla and chocolate butter based batter, and they were thrilled when I showed them how we can combine batters to make marble cupcakes. Yay we love baki adventures!


Zoom zoom bike back to campus to ALANA center and made my dinner while listening to more podcast loveliness.


Class at 7pm, we had a guest speaker with experience in nonprofit community organizing as well as union and electoral campaign work in Minnesota, very interesting POV and insights!


Finally time to bike home at 930. Pre bedtime snack and Last podcast time with short wave, apparently geologists are defining the anthropocene as 1950s bc that is where golden strike rock line is. 


Read and bed! I’ve rediscovered using the library for fun reading and omg it’s great



and now just some photos because spring!

















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