September 18, 2018: I'm suing Apple.

Just kidding I don't have the means to do that. But I am PISSED.

Look at how small my pupils are. I'm a snake. But I'm not a ~snake~. Get it?

So today was incredibly frustrating because of one reason and one reason only, but otherwise it was a marvelous day. Let me paint the picture for you. It's a beautiful day. The sun is shining. You slept well. The neighbors' dogs are barking LOUD as ever. A man is doing construction directly above the room you sleep in. But you're feeling good. You open up your laptop to do some homework and that shit is broke. Screen goes black out of nowhere. Computer makes start-up noises and the little Apple flashes on your screen for 1 second then disappears. And this happens 19 times in a row. Your laptop is broken. You are screwed. Your first thought is: "How will I blog tonight?" Just kidding, your first thought is F-U-C-K.

Welcome to my life.

This happened about 6 weeks ago for a period of about 3 days but since then, it has been working just fine. Until today. I am PRAYING (in my non-religious ways) that my laptop lasts until my parents get here and bring my brother's. It's working now but has already "broken" 3 times today. I really cannot survive the semester without it. Please keep mi compu in your thoughts.

I was so frustrated so I went for a run and that was nice and distracted me. I actually liked the feeling of sweating a lot (cuz I'm a pig like that) but also because it felt good to work hard. When I got home, I did a small workout and showered.

Ladies - do you ever think to yourself in the shower: "I'll just kind of shave my legs"? Cuz I had that thought today and then I realized that's pretty weird and I might as well just shave the whole fricken leg. Shower thoughts, am I right? They're probably just Julia thoughts actually...

I continued to work for the next few hours and was rather productive so that was good. Then I made myself lunch, which was pasta + spinach and scrambled eggs + red pepper + broccoli. After lunch, I packed up and headed to class.

I stopped at the fotocopiadora to print a few things before class and that was like a little weight off my shoulders because I had some important forms to print out. I'm such a businesswoman these days.

Class was incredibly difficult to follow, not because of the language, but because we were talking about concepts that I know close to nothing about. The profe would occasionally ask Julie and I if we were following along / understood what she was saying, and I always just said, "ehhhh sí??" I didn't know what the fock was going on.

That class was just a mess for me overall. I tried to eat an orange, realized it was moldy, awkwardly placed it on the ground next to me and then felt weird sitting next to an orange for 3 hours. I settled by eating half a stack of the cookies I bought yesterday.

A thought I had on the train today was: Why do train / bus seats always have this pattern? Who decided that? Does anyone know?

Anyway, I found out that a nice French girl in my class lives 2 blocks away from me!! So we took the subte and walked home together. By coincidence, I saw a friend from my program as I was saying bye to my French friend, and this girls lives 1 block from me so we walked that together. We talked about how both of our host moms like astrology and whether or not we believed in it, too. I feel like the moon and stars gotta mean something, right?? Don't tell that to Claire Nieusma though. She might stab you.

I'm feeling pretty frustrated and uptight because of this laptop situation so I'm gonna try to clear my head after dinner and be productive. Our track team at Davidson got a subscription to this app called Headspace and I think it does guided meditations so I'm going to try it out tonight and hopefully clear my head a bit!

I'm trying not to lose sight of how privileged I am to even own a personal laptop. Its inconsistent reliability is frustrating, but there are far worse problems to have in this world than a fluky computer. I'm lucky to have all the things that I do and it's important to keep in mind that this is a little bump in the road, not a bump in my chest, as my mom says.

Song Recommendation of the Day: "Knock You Down" by Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West, Ne-Yo

**It's a classic banger and don't you dare try to deny that.