I won’t even sugarcoat it. The beginning of this quarter was absolutely chaotic. This quarter, I am once again taking four (upper) division classes, involved with four clubs, and working part-time. Besides this constant of balancing school and extracurriculars, I was thrown some curveballs before school actually started up again.
With the New Year, I decided on New Year’s Eve to finally begin painting my room. I definitely underestimated how long it would take to finish, but my stubbornness got the best of me. So, I didn’t finish painting and moving all my furniture back into my room until Sunday night. Usually, I like to have Sundays as my days to recharge and have downtime for the upcoming week. That didn’t happen this time since I was putting my books back, setting up my bed, and so on. As of today, I think everything is where it should be for the most part.
Besides my own personal happenings, it was hard to focus on school with the attack on the Capitol. I first found out while I was on a walk and talking with my grandma. She asked me if I had been keeping up with the news and I thought it would be something to do with COVID. She told me that Trump supporters were in the building and trying to stop the election again. I saw pictures on Twitter before they were in the building, but the severity of what was going on didn’t really dawn on me. Once I got home, I watched live streams and saw all the Tweets about what was going on. It made me really afraid because, to me, this division makes us look vulnerable.
It was definitely a way to start the week, so it helped when I took a break occasionally from social media and also kept my space organized. I feel like a disorganized room can definitely impact how put-together I feel, so I cleaned my whole room about twice this week to try to shake off the discomfort.