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Consumption day 21
I spent 10 hours today inside of McNeal hall. I am thinking about the how much this building consumes my life - 5 classes, my major, my friends, everything I do is connected to this building. Much of my time today was spent in the screen printing studio in the basement printing my final prints for our first project. How many fumes did I ingest today? 6 hours of printing, working with inks, chemicals, photo sentitive materials. Are these things all safe to be around and touch for that long each day? Or will it be the thing that haunts me with a cancer diagnosis years from now? I know that it will not, but is it good for my mental health to be in one place like this for so long?
Design school consumes my life, for better or for worse. So much of my time is spent working on projects, hanging out with people from school, looking at grades, working on my portfolio, looking for internships, having new experiences to put on my resume. I do not draw any more because all of my work time is filled with art so it is hard to motivate myself to do art in my free time. I love the design school and do feel like I am in the right place, but how do I not let it eat me alive? How do I find art as passion without it being just another thing for my portfolio?
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Consumption day 20
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Today I consumed over 150 pages of my book. I have been reading this book for over two weeks, which is a long time for me to be reading a book that is only 400 pages. I had a break in the middle of the day and then a meeting which was scheduled for an hour but only took 15 minutes. I had a lot of free time on my hand that was not planned. I had a lots of ideas of what to consume my time with: cook a big dinner, clean my room, water my plants, start my homework, work on internship ideas. However I spent 3+ hours reading to finish the last portion of this book.
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Consumption day 19
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Today I consumed a lot of beans and rice. I have burritos for 2/3 meals for today unintentionally. I did not realize I was going to have chipotle for dinner at work and ate a breakfast burrito in the morning. Other than that, my big consumption for today was booking an Air b n b for a spring break trip! This receipt said that I spent almost 900$ on the cabin but in reality i was just the one who paid with my card, and we split it between 7 people - in total I spent 120$ on the cabin.
I really like having trips booked to look forward to, I like having something to look forward to. My dad and I spent a lot of time planning trips we will never go on, but just the planning and dreaming of the trip is very fun. It is very nice to have something to look forward to for the next cold month even though it was a lot of money.
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Consumption day 18
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Today I had the day off of work so spent a lot of my time doing absolutely nothing. And by absolutely nothing I mean going on Tik Tok. However I did clean my room, talk to my parents and spend a lot of time reading my book. I am very busy and when I have time off I typically fill it with as much social time as I can. Today however I tried to give myself time to chill out and decompress. I tend to overconsume other people without leaving time for myself. This is a big topic I have discussed with my partner because we both tend to leave ourselves little alone time and try to do too much during the days. We eventually crash and burn and hurt the people around us in the process. I am trying to be more intentional with my time consumption especially with giving myself chill out time. Tonight I decided to stay in and not hang out with my friends or partner. I spent my time reading, taking a bath and having a glass of wine. It was amazing. Although I did miss my partner and not getting to see them all day, I enjoyed the time I had to myself and liked being able to be alone.
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Consumption day 17
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Today I stayed inside for most of the day because it was so cold. Even with all of my layers I was still freezing. I stayed in and watched out the light reflected off of the windows. I thought about how in the winter time I dont consume as much sunshine and that leads to seasonal depression. I am trying to soak up as much sunshine as I can from inside my house on days like today when it is too cold to go outside.
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Consumption day 16
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Today I looked at my consumption of music. I spend a lot of time listening to music between walking, cleaning and being on the bus. I was very intrigued to find that in the last month, 2 albums have consumed the majority of my listening: Rush! by Maneskin and Dance Fever by Florence and the Machine. Because I have ADHD my brain consumes things in a very unique way. I hyperfix on shows, books, music, foods, ideas and many other things. When I am hyperfixating it becomes the only thing I can talk about or eat or listen to or whatever, it consumes my life. As you can see for the last month my brain has been hyper fixating on these two albums depending on my book. When I hyperfixate on music, I will only listen to that album or artist for a week, month, year until I cannot listen to it anymore. Last semester I listened to Noah Kahans ablum for month, it was the only thing i listened to. Now I cannot listen to that album without thinking of November and December of last year and it does not sound as good to me anymore. I can tell that these two albums will be similar to that for this semester.
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Consumption day 15
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Today I spent a lot of money. I went grocery shopping which was 45$, 25$ on these hairclips and then also 25$ on a ticket for drag brunch. The hair clips were a big impulse purchase for me and definity not something I needed. That being said, I have wanted them for awhile and I do not regret buying them. My big spending day does screw me over for the rest of the week bc that was 50/60 $ of my weekly budget so I only have 10$ to last me until next monday.
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Consumption day 14
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Today I consumed wonderful food, time and drinks with friends. I made friends for 2 of my really good friends, my partner and one of my roomates. I made mediterranean bowls and a strawberry feta salad. This is the second time we've had a dinner party with this group of people and I love that it is becoming a tradition. I like to share food as a way to show people I care about them and I think this is a wonderful way to connect with people. Not only are we consuming wonderful food, but we are having good conversations and making future plans. The way college students consume friendships is not my favorite thing and I am trying to not have friends that I can only go out and party with but those that I can also do things like this with!
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Consumption day 13
I am 2% soft pretzel after today
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Consumption day 12
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As winter is hitting its stride this week, I have been consumed with my longing for the sun. I spent a good 30 minutes looking at when the sun will be setting for the next month and was ecstatic to see that is will be setting after 5:30 in a matter of days. The sun in the morning casts these beautiful shadows across the walls. I hung up my paper cranes the other day and woke up this morning to this shadow. It was so cool to see this artwork and has been consuming my thoughts ever since.
I spend the rest of the day at work and in class so was very boring in the consumption of food and money today.
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Consumption blog day 11
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Today was rough. I had a long day and my friends were all busy and I spent the night alone sad and listening to hozier videos - that's a big sad girl activity™️ for me . The Hozier remake "hours of whiskey" which is an irish folk song was played I want to say 14 times??? The thing that saved my day was my girlfriend bringing me a fizzy water (seen above with my thank you artwork bc graphic design is my passion). This consumption both for money and for pure joy was definitely worth it.
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Consumption Journal Day 10
First 4 words you think of based on potato pic
Lumpy
Yummy
Ground
Dirt
Potato rating
1)
8.5/10 -> all natural, you know it was grown in the dirt and came out beautiful just a little lumpy
2)
6/10 -> too round, suspiciously round. Looks yummy though!
I would buy either one because I probably I like all potatoes. If I had to choose I like 1b better bc it is a russet and I like those more than red potatoes.
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Consumption Journal day 9
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Today much of my time was consumed by art. I needed to submit my artwork for the next addition of the Wake and left most of the work for the day it was due. I think I spent a total of 4 hours on this piece from first sketches to final execution. I am very happy with the result and am proud of how much I got done today. Because this was stressing me out and always at the forefront of my mind today, I did not pay as much attention to my consumption or have time to spend any money.
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Consumption Journal day 8
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Today I consumed a chocolate milk. It was not the only thing I consumed, but when thinking of what I eat today this is the only thing that stuck out. I was going to class and so thirtsy and I forgot my water bottle so thought I was going to have to go 2 hours before I got something to drink. I ran quickly into the St Paul student section and what did I see but a glorious bottle of cold cold chocolate milk. It felt like I was a kid again going through the lunch line to pick up ur paper carton of milk. 10/10 experience.
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Consumption day 7
Julia consumed 9 hours of tik tok a day over break. Julia is from a small town, and once holiday were over and family went back to work, she was alone and bored. She spent most of her time on her phone and with her dog. She liked to go on long walks with her dog to get outside of the house and off her phone. For the last week and a half of break, Julia went back to Minneapolis and spent lots of time with roommates and friends. She made lots a sick crafts including some earrings, a tote bag and learned how to crochet ! Overall Julia enjoyed her break and the step away from school.
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Consumption day 6
Much of my time today was spent at work and climbing. I ended up having to cover a class for a friend who was running late so I did not have a break between my shifts. My girlfriend dropped off breakfast for me which was a lifesaver! It was beans, rice, pico de gallo, avocado, cheese, egg and some other ingredients I am forgetting. I do not remember where they got me this meal, but I need to ask because it was delicious. My coworkers were laughing at me because I was devouring my food so fast in between shifts, that when a parents from my class asked me a questions about her kids performance, I was too out of breath to answer.
The rest of my food consumption for the day was mediocre, nothing noteworthy except the hot cup of tea I had after a long walk back from the bus.
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Consumption day 5
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Today was a minimal spending day for me as well as a small media consumption day. Much of my time was consumed by cleaning the house and water my plants. I did spend 5$ on a new pot for one of my plants, but the soil and all the plants I already owned. Picture is about half of my plants on my kitchen counter as I watered them.
I like to understand what my consumes much of my time, I tend to get fixated on tasks and hours later will remember that I have other responsibilities or needs. Today, I cleaned the entire kitchen, water and reported plants, did my laundry and tidied up the house before I realized that the reason I had left my room two hours before was to make a snack. This all consuming nature of how I complete tasks is a result of my ADHD but I find it helpful on days like today when the "all consuming" mindset gets fixated on productive things like cleaning, plants and my overall wellbeing.
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