It’s so frustrating to look for stuff in my size…or even to find stuff to DIY alter in my size if I don’t want to make a whole garment from scratch.
What places have you found that you swear by? Bonus if they’re online. What DIY’s do you swear by?
My birthday is coming up, although my loved ones will be celebrating it with me on a different date due to schedule conflicts. I do have the day off on my birthday itself, though, and was considering maybe doing at least something outside the house just for fun.
Does anyone know places that might be fun for such a solo adventure that I may not have known about yet? Your favorite places to get birthday freebies from other than the dispensaries? I wouldn’t be spending a ton of money and probably wouldn’t be out the whole day, but just wanted to do something for myself since I could.
This program is killing me. I still want to go through with it, but it’s getting to the point where the workload and the stress have impacted me so much my loved ones are worried. It’s like my entire life has to be put on hold during the semester, and I don’t get to live as if I’m a human being for half the year, even though I’ve reduced my course load as much as I can for now. I’m desperately trying to find what solutions I can so that I have enough free time that my life feels worth living again.
I know everyone says “make time for yourself” and all that, but at this point it’s a matter of where to even get that time from.
Do any of you have any tips and tricks to cut down on the time it takes to do studio projects? Are there any Adobe CS, Rhino or AutoCAD shortcuts that you’ve found really useful? I’ve tried everything I know so far to have good time management, it’s just the work itself takes so many hours every single week.
Other than losing financial aid, I’ve heard there are certain privileges you lose going from full-time to part-time but can’t yet find where it is stated exactly what. Does anybody know?
Some days I love getting to feel pretty in my own way, don’t get me wrong. But many a time I wish I could just go outside and not have to worry about whether I’m presentable enough. I wish I could go outside with full bedhead, and not spend 10 minutes trying to figure out an outfit that doesn’t make me look like the Pillsbury doughboy. Or worry about whether I had the energy to do the laundry that week so I even have said outfit to wear. Hoodie season 2026 is going to completely end soon and every year I struggle with being forced to expose more of my body than I’m comfortable with, ironically just to stay comfortable.
I don’t even wear makeup or do that much above and beyond, as even just the basics like brushing my teeth or showering are too much for me at times. Yet I find society constantly wants me to compare myself to or compete with women who spend hours and hours a week on that stuff, when that’s just something I just don’t have to spare. It doesn’t even feel fair, and I have a hard time not judging myself for it. Like I’m not pretty or presentable enough to show my face outside, or I could be if I just tried or cared enough, maybe if I lost weight I wouldn’t have to try so hard, etc.
And I know this is all the BS programming that we all live under, I could choose to ignore it. And I do try, really freakin hard, and I’m working on it. Something interesting I’m realizing is that the need to mask as neurotypical and conforming to these standards seem to go hand in hand at times. Like they’re two heads of the same beast that wants to swallow me whole.
But it’s all. Just. Absolutely. EXHAUSTING. It makes me not even want to go outside sometimes, because I live in an apartment so the second I step outside my door there may be eyes on me. I wish I could just exist, without so much of my existence being judged by others based on not just my ability to blend into neurotypical society, but blend in with beauty standards requiring their own part time job’s worth of invisible labor to achieve.
Just having that weight off of me would feel so amazing. I randomly dressed one of the characters in my game with crazy hair and an “ugly” outfit today just because I could. Just to rebel and feel a small reclamation, even if it’s just a game.
I’m curious because I’ve never had any sort of white collar type job before. But I’ve heard some people say they often have time to just…chill during the work day? Or generally there’s this sentiment of not needing all 8 hours to get done what’s needing to get done.
To me this feels like such a foreign concept, because of course in most low-level jobs you’re pretty much killing yourself from start to finish and there is no “down time” to speak of, at some jobs you’re lucky to have time to eat or use the bathroom, etc. I was wondering if landscape architecture could be the same way? Is it firm or situation-dependent? I’m just curious.