Back to School Season!

I'm back from teaching abroad for a month! And what better post to start back with than Back to School!! As much as I love the study vibes of learning new things and takes note with my favourite stationary, I understand that Back to School isn't everyone's favourite time of year. Here are some ideas to make the most of this time and get a good start to the school year. I hope this can be useful to you if you're in any stage of education, and maybe some of these ideas can even be useful if you've recently left like me!

We're going to break this down into the following sections that relate to health, but I'm repurposing: Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social. Also, an addition I couldn't help but add: Aesthetic- because, as far as I'm concerned, aesthetic is good for your health!

Physical Part One: Your Body - Reset your Sleep Schedule. You've definitely heard this one before, because you have probably spent a lot of this Summer spending late nights with friends, reading (books or fanfiction), or, let's be honest, scrolling TikTok. Spend a week or two before school setting an alarm and moving it back and back by about 15 minutes each time to get back into good habits. - Skin Care. Back to School is like a mini New Years and is a perfect time to build new routines if you want to try the whole Back to School Glow-Up thing. But even if that's not where you're at, skin care is especcially wise when we start getting into Autumn and Winter, because its dry skin, cracked lips, and wind-swept hair time. -Anti-Cold Prep. Back to School Season is also Cold and Flu Season. We don't want to start the year off with sick days, and we also just... don't want to get sick. Start chugging orange juice and hot honey and lemon NOW to boost your immune system. Those Vitamin C fizzy tablets are your friend too. Part Two: Your Space - DECLUTTER. Tidy up your desk/workspace, and get into/back into the habit of making your bed as soon as you get up. Collect all the mugs you've accumulated in your room- this is a call-out- and if you're bad at remembering to bring your mugs back to the kitchen, add that into your schedule once a week so it doesn't get too bad. Collect all of your notes, get rid of anything you no longer need, and find anything that may be useful to you next year and put it in a folder (or several). *THIS SHOULD BE DONE DIGITALLY TOO! Organise your laptop folders, putting what you don't need in your recycle bin, and putting anything that's still of use into folders. Create a folder labelled with last year and organise your old stuff into it. - Make it pretty! The fun bit, the bit we all actually want to do. Make your study space inviting and comfy with cushions, a blanket maybe, a coaster for the inevitable pile of mugs as discussed earlier... add fairylights, plants, posters and photos, and anything that'll make your space motivational without letting it get cluttered- make sure to have space for your laptop/iPad, and notebooks and pens AKA the stuff you actually need!!

Intellectual - Make a Schedule. If you know what your timetable looks like already- perfect! You can work around the filled spaces and organise yourself some study time, assignment time, and social time. If not, or you're still in secondary (middle and high school), then consider 9-3 (or whatever your day looks like) as one big block to organise around. *make sure to remember clubs and societies! - Get a Head Start, if you can. If you know what you'll be looking at, get ahead on your reading and on any assignments that you know about. Alternatively, go over any material that might be useful from last year. IF YOU'RE NO LONGER IN SCHOOL: You can dedicate time to learning a new skill in your own time too! Go to free classes, pay for classes too if you want, take online courses, and sign up for Duolingo or similar sites! You can also find newsletters such as NASA's or other things that might be educational.

Emotional - Make Time for Mental Health. Back to School can be hard for some of us, so use the next couple of days and weeks to figure out mental health exercises that work for you, and things you can do to keep yourself motivated You can meditate or pray, journal, keep a gratitude log, make a list of things you're good at, and keep track of your emotions. Learn how to document and release your emotions.

Social - Hang out with Your Friends. You still have a bit of time left, so make sure to make the most of it. Plan a last hurrah night with everyone before you have to go back. - Figure out what the best times will be to see veryone during the year. Do you go to the same school? Are you in clubs together? Will you have to make time for visits? Organise and make plans to look forward to! - Research any clubs and socities you might want to join this year! Does your school have extra-curriculars? Does your college or university have a sports and societies page?

Aesthetic -Start as you Mean to Go on. Outfit plan, buy new things, and create a clear sense of self now so that you can project that year long. -Plan outfits for bad days too. When you want nothing more than to show up in leggings and a hoodie, that's totally ok! In the immortal words of Hannah Montana, everybody has those days. My advice is cute, bright coloured hoodies so you still give the most even when you kinda feel the least. You can also try things like paper bag trousers that have a more pyjama-like feel but look preppier if you're feeling worse for wear but not too terrible- they're my go-to comfy-prep item. - Remember you can still live the high life with a uniform, even in the strictest of schools. If your schol allows a certain amount of personalisation in the form of badges, jewellery, or even subtle makeup, make the most of it! You can also experiment with tie styling, longer or shorter socks, and picking cute shoes. Maximise your hair too! -Remember there's always stationary! Personalise your schoolbag, any files or folders, use colour-coded file divided, decorate with doodles and stickers... the sky's the limit. This goes even when you're out of school because you're never too old for stickers and fluffy pens (you know I can't go without mentioning fluffy pens)

Julie And The Phantoms is fun because the band consists of a sparkly butterfly girl who gets really into her daydreams, a Dave Grohl wannabe who let's be real, probably definitely smells like sweaty socks, a Danny Zuko wannabe who loves country music, and then an anxious gay mess of a Whitney Houston stan who tucks his convertible pants-shorts into his socks. What a group.

The face and ass of a man that would eventually lose his mind during this game 😩

it's 2023 and i'm still bitter about how kuroshitsuji, a complex slow burn mystery manga, got absolutely massacred by its shitty semi-episodic shota/fujobait anime adaptation

My Boyfriend Rates New Who

Rose:

I liked it, I thought the autons were a bit of a boring one to start with, especially since they brought the daleks in later, they would of been cooler.

(Just a bit of fun, he's not like a major Doctor Who fan, more of a casual watcher)

got my friend to watch barry and he is now referring hank as his babygirl

pink-accented pierre just feels right. u know

like!!!!!!

if i were any of the h2o mermaids i would simply disappear to the sea for a week and stay in my mermaid form whenever i was due my period. can't get a period with a mermaids's tail amirite

maybe this gifset of jensen ackles' bare ass will fix me

the skyrim crew c. 4E 201

The ship war in the 911 fandom is so much worse than anything I ever experienced on spnblr. Didn't expect to see the day.

Last week my bf and I found out that one of our friends has been talking "seriously" to another friend's ex crush and it kinda shattered my faith in him like not only is this girl barely 18 (?? I think) but she was also the root of some huge drama that happened last year. She started secretly texting our friend and he told our other friend who then stopped talking to her and moved on. He was super broken and disappointed though. And a few months ago she apparently texted him again, this time he didn't tell our other friend, and now they have like a Thing?? And he already said he's been thinking about how to tell friend number 2 about what's been going on, but he still hasn't done it, and their Thingationship is just naturally progressing, like he's been tentatively telling me and my bf about some of their inside jokes or things they tell each other, and I'm like ?? Bruh what the hell are you doing lol. My bf apparently told him that his secret situationship is a bad idea and really unfair to our friend as well who suffered terribly after his friendship breakup last year. And he just agreed and that was it. But nothing changed, so we just figured he's enjoying the attention and connection with a girl which has been so rare for him, but I'm like... does the world end and begin with this one girl who's too young for pretty much everyone in our friend group?Just cause she made the silly decision to text you again doesn't mean you have to disregard any feelings you have for one of your best friends... Not to mention this wouldn't even be the first time he has a Thing with a close friend's ex girlfriend or crush 🙄 Like idk I know they're both single and there never really was anything beyond a simple friendship between this girl and friend number 2, but what do you even get out of a potentially failed talking stage that you have to hide from your close friend...? Idk this thing really shifted my perception of him, I noticed he was still following this girl on insta but I thought it was just a coincidence that they still follow each other after the failed attempt at integrating her into our friend group last year.

Came home to a dirty ass apartment after a long day (and night) of band because our roomate "thought we'd be home tomorrow" like girl 🧍

woag the skin is peeling from my fingers a bit. power of playing the guitar for like 5 minutes every few hours

huh.. people really weren't kidding when saying wep's ending is fucking disappointing