October 19, 2018: My photoshoot with lettuce.

Only so many ways to entertain yourself when you dine alone.

Sucks to have a good hair day when you spend 80% of the day inside studying haaaaa :(

It's only 9:14pm right now so I can't say for certain how productive the rest of my night will be, but I can definitely say the preceding hours of this Friday were not really productive at all. Well, I did get some things done but I wasn't as productive as I had hoped. I think this speaks to the fact that having a routine, but more importantly, sticking to it, really helps structure your days and encourages productivity. Since I stayed out late last night, I slept in 2 hours later than usual and my entire day was off to a late start.

However, I did start my day with a run, as I've been doing. It was a little cooler this morning which was nice. I decided to actually enter Parque Rosedal today instead of just running around the perimeter, but this was not a wise choice. I got myself trapped in the labyrinth of the rose garden, ran through a wedding, and then got out of there ASAP. The roses were beautiful though!!

When I got home, I did 10 minutes of abs and I'm confused why my abdominal region doesn't look like Mark Wahlberg's but maybe the 8-pack will show up tomorrow. While I stretched and did abs I listened to the audio from yesterday for some background noise and I caught some things I hadn't heard yesterday. It was nice to hear it again.

I finally ate breakfast (if you can even call it that) around 2:00pm. This time I put a scoop of the jam in my oatmeal and half of a sliced banana. Ugh bon appétit, haters. I went to my room to make a birthday card for Clarisa (October 26th) and a thank you card to the teacher of my favorite class here, and then I packed up to go read in the plaza.

It was beautiful outside! I finished my homework for my IFSA class and now my only homework is technically to finish my midterm. I had anticipated waking up and grinding on it and that just simply did not happen. I'm one of those people that needs to get done every little thing before working on a big project, so at least when I wasn't working on the midterm, I was getting things out of the way to be able to focus solely on it.

When I got home from reading at the plaza, I was suddenly very tired. I think it was from sitting in the sun and straining my eyes... so I took a nap and woke up even more tired. That's the worst. But I didn't have much time to waste so I started studying and reading for the midterm.

I was able to finish all of the readings related to one of the questions on the midterm and my plan is to answer it after I finish typing this. You'll find out tomorrow whether or not I achieve that...

After reading for about 2.5 hours, I headed to the kitchen to eat dinner. Clarisa is going to her cousin's house tonight to celebrate his birthday so she left me some lentils and a salad. She left the house around 9:00pm and she couldn't believe I had eaten dinner already. Girl, I've been eating dinner around 6:30pm for over 20 years... I can't adapt to these 9:00pm / 10:00pm dinners. My tummy starts growling when the clock strikes 4:00pm.

Dinner was kind of boring by myself so I decided to have a photoshoot with my salad. Honestly what's wrong with me lol. Please enjoy me, some lettuce, and some carrots.

It's really crazy how big some lettuce leafs can be these days!

Well, I just finished eating my salad so I guess that means it's time to stop procrastinating (by doing stupid crap like taking photos with a salad) and continue working on my midterm! Please keep me in your thoughts as I suffer through it. <3

Song Recommendation of the Day: "Hurt Feelings" by Mac Miller