These last few days (and weeks) have been glorious in Oxford. Sunshine and warmth and blossoms that fill the air with perfume and color. I guess I've never really understood about the spring before - about why it's the season for twitterpation and first kisses. But with a sky so blue and colors so bright it's impossible to feel anything but beautiful.
That is, unless you're spending the day studying in the library. Which I was - for a while. So, in order to cope, I created a new routine: get up (with the assistance of three alarms), spend an hour saturating in the sun while eating a croissant and sipping coffee at Combibos (my new favorite coffee shop), make it to the library around the time they were opening their doors, write, saturate in the sun over a picnic lunch in the
Botanic Garden, return to the library, write . . . you get the picture.
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| my morning routine |
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| lunch in the Botanic Garden across from Magdalen College |
Eventually, however, I gave up on the library all together. It wasn't helping my panic attacks, so now I just study in the parks . . . permanently. Usually writing by hand, and then returning to my room to type up the notes at night. But today I actually took my computer with me.
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| iced vanilla lattes help the writing process immensely |
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| the University Parks |
So no, it's probably not the most efficient study plan. And yes, the writing is going terribly slow. But at least I'm happy while I'm doing it. 'Cause like I said, it's impossible not to feel pretty - at home with earth and sky, content, delighted, capable of flight - in the springtime.
3 comments:
So do the parks include any of those containing rabid attacking geese? Because I have fond memories of benches in one such park.
This post makes me happy :)
I'm telling you Amberle, the rabid attacking killer geese were a fluke brought on by your presence. I'd never seen them before, and I haven't seen them since.
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