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  • Kicking The Habit Of Consumerism. A Year Of Change.

    It’s new years as shocking as it might be, yet another year has passed us by and boy do they seem to fly faster and faster. I like to say that I usually don’t fall for the typical New Year’s resolutions bandwagon, only to give up after a few weeks. But this year is a…

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  • I’m pretty fickle if I’m being honest. It’s hard for me to listen to any album all the way through or find music that I don’t want to jump around to different songs, or worse, play a few on repeat. Especially with the advent of streaming services and for me, Apple Music, I can listen…

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  • What I Could Never Have Realized I Needed

    I can’t say I have ever been a happy person. I think by the age of 12 I was just generally severely unhappy and isolated. I didn’t fit in well with other kids. I was awkward and went off on weird tangents about weird topics no one cared about. I was insufferably lonely; something that…

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  • Granada; We’re Really Not In Kansas Anymore (7/12)

    At some point in the bus ride to Granada, I passed the bounds of reality and entered into a new plane of existence. I’m not sure which mountain or what alien landscape finally pushed me to this realization, but by the time the we were about 20 minutes out, I felt the call of this…

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  • I need an adult; seriously….

    Ah the witching hour. Midnight again. The time when normal people are winding down from a productive day. As we have seen, I am not in that group. the moments before midnight for me, are spent frantically trying to turn in all the homework that I had a week or more to complete, realizing I…

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  • The Death of Boredom and the Unfulfilled Minute

    It’s the end of another day in my household, one that seems to play out all too familiarly. I start my morning with a semblance of a routine that I have cobbled together; a leftover from Europe I suppose. I wash my face, make myself a thermos of tea (this week I am stuck on…

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  • This seems like a simple answer, the answer is of course it would be awful. I can’t imagine life without music. I spend a majority of my time listening to music in some way; whether it’s blasting out of my car speakers, my headphones, or currently, the ambient notes filling the room from the LofiGirl…

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  • I feel like a pack mule and I am ok with that (7/7)

    On every corner, nestled in every building there are neat little shops selling all kinds of wares. I feel the need to walk into each of them and see what they might be selling, whether it’s the 15th farmacia I’ve visited for all the random things I realize I have forgotten, to little bodegas selling…

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  • My years of experience traveling taught me to come prepared for unusual situations. This proved very useful as I finally broke down and took the antibiotics I stowed away in case of an emergency. Only after I started to feel immensely better did I find farmacias that contained medicines I was even remotely familiar with.…

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  • Well it happened. The dreaded airport cooties got to me. Day 6 of my trip and my head is pounding and my throat hurts. The pace of this trip so far has been the equivalent to bootcamp in the southern summer. I already have bad knees and a bum back, add to that being sick…

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  • Default me is a chaotic whirlwind of spur of the moment decisions and haphazard planning. Yet travel mode me is meticulous to the point of being neurotic. I have printed lists with checkmarks, detailed preparations on my whiteboard, enough itinerary pages to make a small book printed out. Everything is checked and double checked. Do…

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