Category: in the shell
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My Summer Bucket List (and tips to make your own!)
Hi! If you’re new here, I’m magic icelandic crab and this is my bucket list blog. I have a Drifty List (100 items) that tracks my lifetime goals, including my goals for Q2 2026. If you’re not familiar with corporate jargon, a quarter (this is quarter two) is a three-month block. In this case, Q2 is April, May, and June 2026. Breaking down my goals by quarter certainly helps build progress, but what really works…
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How I Fell In Love with Food (Again)
My Drifty goal #38 – Reduce my food waste and shop local – was born from two things. A MA in Food Studies from NYU and a desire to improve my relationship with food. But let’s take a step back first. I grew up eating healthy foods. My Ukrainian grandmother plied me with healthy cereals, oatmeal, rye bread, and unsweetened tea, instilling in me a lifelong habit of skipping sugar whenever I could. That habit…
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#13. Turn Driftyland into a zine
I did it. Driftyland is now a zine! With the help of my advisor, Jen Berg, I worked on this project during my independent study in Fall 2025. It took months of preparation and writing to get it to a format I was happy with. Then, there was the design – I chose a template in Canva and adjusted it (about a million times) and then sent it out to get printed. This was the…