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Today I was the first person up. It rained right before dawn and all the living room windows were foggy, even the dogs wanted to laze in bed.

In over 3 months of Quarantine, I think it’s the first daylight silence I’ve enjoyed. I missed it. I even made breakfast to celebrate that small moment of space I’d been granted before my loved ones joined the day.

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Good Morning 🌞

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May is almost over, I know, but I tried setting up for this month and mustering the energy in the middle of everything was almost impossible. Between having switched houses for quarantine and living off on a fraction of my stationary, clothes and belongings; and just feeling consistently swamped by work...

I started looking at new BuJo’s on Amazon, because I was overwhelmed by how many empty trackers and teared off pages the one I’m using has been. But, as much as it may stress me out, my anxiety isn’t going to be repaired by a new notebook. 

A new notebook is a false new beginning, and I deserve better than that.

It’s banged up, half empty, smeared and battered, but this is the notebook I’ll look back on when I want to remember 2020 and it will be true to my story. I want to see the missing pages, the half-hearted spreads, the use of the exact same pens month after month, and think about a time where I really wanted to quit, but I didn’t.

I want to immortalize how I stubbornly refused to stop looking at the things I disliked, at the things I was afraid of and decided to show up for it anyways. It might not be Pinterest perfect, but real life rarely. My BuJo is that, a snapshot of my life and it deserves to exist and have its up’s and down’s -just like me, in all its colorful glory. 

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Fairytale aesthetic for May’s Bullet Journal spreads 

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😍😍

In the last 3 months I reblogged a lot of tips etc. Sooo, I decided to organize them into different categories! Beware because this list is really really long and it took me ages to make it.

Life:

Waking up early and refreshed

Balancing sleep & education

Little things to do more of

Organize your laptop

How to eat well

How to eat cheaply

Tips for when you have abusive parents

Simplifying your life

Get yo’ life together guide

How to grow the fuck up (friendliness)

How to grow the fuck up – Guide to life (typesetjez)

Small ways to improve your life

Learn things for free

Top 50 online learning sites

Detox your summer

College:

First-time college student advice 

Tips for incoming freshmen 

Getting through your first year 

Morning habits worth starting in college 

Useful college tips 

How to approach classes 

How to get a 4.00 GPA 

How to be productive after school 

Backpack essentials 

Upgrade your workspace 

A Really Fucking Vulgar Guide to Not Losing Your Shit in College 

Trying party drugs 

Productivity:

Productivity 101

Productive things that aren’t studying 

How to be productive during the weekend 

Taking notes:

How to outline and revise using the stewart method 

Upgrade your notes masterpost 

How lentilstudies takes notes 

Studying:

How to gain discipline 

Real tips for studying 

Secrets to efficiently 

How to study like a boss 

Study tips for different learning styles 

Types of study breaks 

How to make a study plan 

Planning the perfect study schedule

Bizarre music study tip 

Study music/noises 

What to do when you don’t want to study 

How to study when you don’t want to 

Finals:

Complete exam study guide 

Study tips – finals edition 

Revise for exams 

Tips for doing well on your exams 

Relaxing during exam periods 

Learning different subjects:

625 words to know in your target language 

How to do well in physics 

Chemistry printables 

Studying for math 

Self care:

Self care tips for students 

App that helps avoiding self-harm 

Apps for your mental health 

Self care tips for when you hit rock bottom 

How daily affirmations can change your life 

Dealing with losing friendships 

Other masterposts:

Alistudys masterpost of tips 

Essential school masterpost 

Apartment hacks masterpost  

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ig: herdrafts There is nothing more gratifying for a methodical person when everything goes according to plan from the beginning of the day until the sun set. I’m talking about a long day of various and indispensable readings, writing their reviews which is my main purpose when I enjoy a book, and continue my languages study on my own. It isn’t something of great relevance but usually all these tasks can’t be carried out in a single day. I’m proud of my little efforts !

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Sunday Thoughts, May 10th, 2020

On nights when I’m feeling particularly inspired, I’ll look at my desktop clock and it’ll be somewhere on the late side of 10. By the time I reawaken from my writing-induced stupor, it’ll be almost 1. It’s a little like a Phantom Zone where I’m conscious, but too lost in my thoughts, too busy typing away to feel the passage of the hours. It happens often enough that I feel like the occurrence should have a name. 

It went on a little longer than usual last night, and 2am is really late for a sleepy person like me who’s never been able to pull an all-nighter, for neither work nor play. Tired is one of my character traits, do with this information what you will. 

A symphony of alarms greets me in the morning. I’m tired, certainly, annoyed, definitely; but mostly, the responsibilities of the day are threatening to crush me, because there’s just too much to do. Counterproductively, it makes me want to do nothing at all. It’s a little of, no way I can do it, so why try? Stupid beyond belief, because my responsibilities aren’t up for debate, they need to get done. The sooner, the better.

It’s a struggle to not snuggle deeper in to bed. 

I’ll just do my best. I tell myself. I’ll get as much work done as possible.

So, I now share my morning revelation with you. Don’t commit yourself to finishing. A day only has so many hours and you have limited brain power to face it. Instead, commit yourself to advancing as much as you possibly can. That will make tomorrow easier and the next day and the next day. 

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Dicen que el amor está en todos lados, pero el odio también lo está.

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Raison D’Être

Once, a student realized that I knew they had trash-talked about me.

This student and I had one of those special teacher-relationship were there’s respect and appreciation, were the student realized their teacher actually cares and in turn, feels safe to care in return. For the record, that student remains a very precious figure to me.

The student was understandably upset. To this day, I’m not sure how they found out that I knew; but it apparently was jarring enough to merit a conversation about it -despite the incident having taken place months back. 

The infraction was minimal, but it was a pretty cruel offense to my person -which is why another student felt the need to share it with me. 

It’s not everyday that the kids you work so hard for and care so much about joke around that they want you to die. (I pondered if I was in the right career during my long commute home. It’s been years and I’m still here.)

Anyways, this student finds out I know about this incident, and contrary to usual teenage crisis-managemente (denying the problem until it goes away), they decide to very broadly and vaguely refer to the situation. I was a little wary, getting over it had been a very conscious process and learning to not take it personally a high success. Was this conversation going to undo my hard work? 

The student asked me for a favor.

I haven’t been a teacher for ages at this point, 4 years in I still think it’s fairly new. I still sometimes feel like crying from how lucky I feel and how excited I am about my work. I still mess up all the time. I still think every single one of my kids is meant for utter greatness. I still embody all those things teachers are supposed to be before time, burnout, cruel children, rude parents and examinations suck the cheeriness out of you -or that’s what I’ve heard, I’ll have to get back to you on that. 

This child looks me dead in the eye and goes:

“Please, don’t turn into Teacher RandomName.” 

I’m even more puzzled, but I do have an inkling of what the student means. TeacherRandomName is a fantastic instructor, but their relationship to their students is... tense. TeacherRandomName can come off as cruel and uncaring, and the students are fierce in their dislike. But that seems a little like a logical stretch so instead I go:

“Huh?” Eloquent, I know. 

“I’m sure Teacher RandomName cared tons about their job and us students a lot too, once. I think it’s our fault they’re like that now.” He’s earnest in a way I’d never seen this student be. “I don’t want you to stop caring about your work because of me.” 

Is this... growth? I thought, initially more excited about the self-reflection and display of empathy than the words themselves. 

“We might not always appreciate it,” he continued, “but I know you’re always doing the right thing.” Meh, I don’t know about that always. “We need more teachers like you.” 

It’s been years and every time I think about it I’m only more sure that I’m going to take that moment to my grave.

I’m not telling you this to blow my own horn, in fact, this first post is probably the only one meant more for me, the writer, than you, my reader. This is to remind me why this is important. Why transparency and vulnerability is important, why teaching and patience and kindness are important, often when we don’t want to teach or be patient or be kind. 

That moment is the foundation for this little blog, meant to expand on everything I talk about in my social media but also offer a platform to just vent out what a young teacher in high school feels like. 

Perhaps to document that I never stray far from this philosophy:

Is the world going to shape me -with all it’s cruelty, hopelessness and status quo, or am I going to shape world?

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