Post-travel blues and how I’m trying to combat them

Since returning from my short but enjoyable trip, I’ve been plagued by those aching feelings of lust for travel.
They make me feel guilty; I just had an adventure, shouldn’t that be enough? Maybe, but I find going travelling only heightens my desires to explore. First world problems indeed.

My personal method of fighting these feelings is to employ hair of the dog (travel edition).
Very loose draft plans for my next trip are already bouncing around in my head. I would love to go backpacking in Europe with Sam for several months, hopefully at the end of next year. I’m ridiculously excited by the prospect.

Before we went to NZ I dropped uni for the semester, and I think I’ll defer next year. I’m not in the right headspace and am thinking of moving to a different course anyway. The good part about that is I’m free to work full time now, so we could potentially save enough to make our ideas actually happen.

The main hitch in my plan is that I’ve had no luck finding jobs so far. Waiting to hear back is pretty draining. Someone hire me!

I blinked and missed the weekend

The past weekend was, frustratingly, quite lovely. Cool and sunny outside, I was annoyed to be locked in my room/study prison. Concentrating proved quite difficult as there were tradies chopping concrete and ripping up our drain system out the back. They seemed to have a penchant for blasting pop music, but I was too impressed by their humming to ask them to pipe down (pun unintended).

Today I had an exam, and after uni tomorrow and an appointment the day after, I will be free to get out and photograph! Since my mum is overseas at the moment, I’ll head home for a few days to help drive my sister around and look after the animals. Definitely looking forward to it. Uni is doing my head in, and I’m only part time this semester…

I have no photos to share at the moment except a boring long exposure of a highway at sunset.
Stay tuned for a plethora of pics in a few days. Until then, have a good week!

Assorted animals

Just a quick post of a few odd animal pics from a couple of months ago. I didn’t manage to get out and take any photos this weekend, and now I’m feeling rather uninspired. Hopefully this week I can get into gear with the (dry) uni work that I keep putting off and get outside. Bring on the end of the month – heading to New Zealand for a road trip around South Island (can’t wait). Until then, you may find me flailing about in a tumultuous sea of confusing (and boring) textbooks.
Stay tuned,
Emily