Daily Note

Jetlag is definitely messing with my schedule. I am so tired during the late afternoon when I actually need to do work, and now I am wide awake yet don't feel like doing anything. I probably will force myself to go to sleep anyway in order to fix my schedule.

I guess I am the type who can be happy over very little things. I was pretty sad on the plane, but then I passed out for almost 16 hours straight and woke up to the most beautiful sunrise that I have ever seen and that put a smile on my face and made me thought to myself: "Wherever I'm going, it can't be that bad if the sky there is so beautiful, right?" Also, I met the nicest guy on the plane who literally took care of me the entire time, ordering meals for me and such while I slept my plane ride away. I always find it nice when I get to meet interesting people on the plane who share random conversations, knowing you will never see each other again, but being sincere enough to keep each other company to make the trip not so painful. I also ran into two nice ladies who literally showed me the way from JFK to the subway and gave me careful direction how to get to Penn Station. Overall my trip was pretty long and tiring, but I met so many people who helped me through various parts of the trip that I don't even thing I deserve to complain about it.

First day back to the US wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I guess I exaggerated my mood a little bit. I am not too depressed about the weather nor too homesick. I mean, consider there were times in the past when I literally was too homesick to do anything. I do have the symptom where I don't want to see or meet anyone, and being a bit antisocial, but that's about it. The weather is fairly cold, typical Rochester, but the snow is actually pretty.

Finally, it's my last semester of undergraduate years. I am a little bit less worried about graduation such now that I am physically at school and have been able to meet with my major advisors and discussed my credits. I guess I was just overthinking since I had nothing to do when I was home.

I probably should unpack but I don't feel like doing it just yet, lol. Although I realized, again, that I have this ridiculous "scent memory", or at least that's what I called it. I changed my room air freshener today, and it happens to be the same scent as I used two winters ago. The smell of my room, the cold weather and the snow falling keep bringing back all the memories of that winter. I told my friend "I need to change the scent of my room every time I move on to a new guy" and she laughed at me. But really, I wasn't kidding. I pay lots of attention to smell and I associate different smell with different memories so strongly that smelling the same scent will remind me of everything that happened. Using the same scent is kind of like opening a diary for me. It's ridiculous. I could change the air freshener, but then again, should I? It is my favorite scent. Besides, those were nice memories after all, remembering how the guy used to start the car 15 minutes before hand, running through the cold to get the car and parking it as close to my building as possible to make sure that I didn't have to be cold even for a minute. I love little but nice gestures. Those are the things that impress me the most. But then again, I like to be treated like a princess so every single little needs of mine need to be catered to. Maybe that's why I like small gestures because they show how much attention one pays. I like attention to details, just because I am very observing, lol.

I really hope this last semester will be a good one, so that every time I use this favorite scent from Bath and Body Works I can always think of good memories.