This post was originally published on August 11, 2020 on my blog.
Hi friends! I'm back from a relaxing vacation from work, coding, and all things requiring significant mental focus.
I don't even know how long it lasted, but I do know that I lost track of the time and what day it was (which, now that I think about it, tends to happen during the first couple weeks of August of really any year).
During my vacation, I spent some time traveling around the south of France with my boyfriend and basking in the sheer bliss of a European summer under the influence of utter vacation-mindset.
Needless to say, I came back from all of it with a breathless excitement to jump back in to everything I've been working on. Isn't that such a great feeling?
I'm taking it slowly today - might dip my toes back into a few Ladies Code Collective things (back to podcast production tomorrow!) and then I also want to try to scope out what the next few weeks of study will look like (looks like it's going to be React!).
Re: React, I've dabbled a bit before, but I never really got it to stick so now that I've spent a solid amount of time and done significant amount of work around drilling in the basics of JavaScript, I think I'll be better-equipped to dive all the way in.
Also. I'm currently listening to the new Glass Animals album - two tracks in and I already can't get enough.
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Top comments (2)
Welcome back! How was traveling during this time? I'm aching to get back to Europe! Re: Glass Animals, I've only heard "Heat Waves" but I love that song – can't wait to listen to the whole album!
Thanks, Ruanna! It was fine - we definitely made sure to follow safety and social distance measures as well as we could. I live in Toulouse, so the trip over to where we were in more the southeast of France was an easy ~3-hour drive from us :)
Heat Waves is so good! I recommend just listening to the whole album from start to finish - it's a gem!