New York Resolutions

A few goals for the summer and a couple complaints

what we’re biting

This week, both of us decided to bite on ways to make this summer the BEST EVER!!!! So, we’re setting resolutions (mostly because the title was catchy).

bella:

• Going Dairy-Free

  • I, like many other Ashkenazi Jews in this world, struggle with the curse of lactose intolerance. For much of my life, I just treated dairy as a treat that came with a bit of pain. However, at the beginning of this year a nutritionist told me that if I continued to eat dairy the way I did I would probably develop a stomach ulcer. So, I have largely reduced my dairy intake over the course of the past 5 months. There are things I still have a hard time letting go of— scallion cream cheese on a bagel, whey protein powder, chocolate, and nonfat greek yogurt. This summer, both for my health and due to the fact that Grey is vegan, I am going to try and go completely dairy free. Hopefully this way I’ll live forever and maybe find god?

• Making sure I don’t go crazy in WFH

  • My job, although I love it to bits, is mostly remote. This is hard for me as an “unabashed extrovert”. Being around people is both my sense of joy but also my true marker of routine. But, once Grey leaves for work everyday it really will just be me and my computer. So, I’m hoping I can figure out a schedule where I can talk to people in real life every day and also do my job well without getting depressed.

    

    my bday in grey’s landlord’s book

• Do yoga for at least 15 minutes every day

  • Normally I’m super anti all that “hippie dippie shit” (a phrase I use often), EXCEPT for when it comes to Yoga. I’ve been “practicing” (another hippie word I don’t like) Yoga for nearly 4 years now (!) and I have to say there is genuinely nothing else I can do to calm myself down. It makes my mind and body feel so good. So, no, it’s not a hoax, and if you’re not on the Yoga train yet you definitely should be.

• Get out of the Yale bubble a little more

  • Something that I’ve really loved about working during the school year is I get to spend time with people who exist outside of my own social context. As much as I love Yale (and am particularly nostalgic for it as graduation content is flooding my feed), it sometimes feels really tiny. Everyone feels entitled to each other’s business and the social scene is much smaller than you originally realized— classic first-world problems at a mid-sized college. As I’ve gotten closer with my coworkers and other collaborators, I am starting to get excited about the kinds of people I will know and be around post-grad. I am finally feeling that life will not end at Yale. So, I’d like to know more of them.

    

    me not at yale

• Some self-explanatory resolutions:

  • Stop Texting People that I don’t like

  • Find the best FroYo in the whole city