Pardon me while I dust off my WordPress dashboard, but I have to say that after the end of my internship, all I needed was a freaking break, from like.. life in general. I think in total I have posted maybe 3 times in the past month? Who cares though, I feel revived.

Now that I’ve been back from my two weeks in Michigan, I’m finding myself being even more of a lump than ever before. And you know what I’ve been spending most of my time doing? Reading blogs. That’s right, not writing posts or fussing with my blog design, just reading reading reading. And occasionally commenting (don’t think that if you haven’t gotten a comment from me that I haven’t totally scoured your posts from the past 6 months, I’m just a bit stingy with the comments).

You see, I’ve pretty much spent my entire last year, ok or maybe like 6 years, of my life totally and completely engulfed in what I like to call “clinical nutrition paradise“, or hell, whichever way you want to look at it is fine. What I mean to say is that I don’t care about gluconeogensis or anything like that right now. I want to know what the world is talking about in terms of food and nutrition. And what better way to find out than to look at blogs of average people? Yeah sure there are individuals here and there with some serious background in food, but a lot of bloggers don’t have that. And don’t get me wrong, being “average” is not a bad thing, it’s just a fact of life. Not everyone is going to be a dietitian or have a masters in food science, I get that. That’s the whole point though, I don’t want to know what the experts are talking about, I want to know what the people are talking about.

This whole phase may or may not have inspired that last post a little bit. There are a lot of things I have beef with. Actually, I’m quite the opinionated person. However, it’s not really appropriate for me to put it out to the world on my personal blog. Maybe I should write a book once I pass the exam… “Sh*t Dietitians Wish They Could Say”. I’m kidding, mostly.

But that’s not where I meant to go with this post. No I actually have no idea where I’m going with this post. What I can tell you though is that you all need to stop writing such intriguing and interesting blog posts so that I can actually be a productive human-being! Oh I should be studying? Let’s check Feedly. Oh maybe I’ll apply for more jobs? Winds up on olivesnwine.com. Oh I should call person A about XYZ? Looky here, a “Link-up” post with dozens of articles that I just HAVE TO READ, okay.

Do you get what I’m saying? For a few days I felt like complete crap about myself because I was convinced I had lost all motivation for life. But in fact, I’m just so much more inspired by reading what everyone has to say. You are all so awesome. This has lead me to one conclusion: I need to work with people. Yes, currently I will take any full-time-with-benefits job that comes my way, but in 5-10 years I hope to have a career that allows me to just talk with people all day about one thing: food. The love of my life.

But as I’m typing this, that one conclusion has lead me to another one: I need to get motivated about what’s in front of me right now. Passing that exam. Getting a real job. Two monumental accomplishments that will allow me to do what I want in the future. So my passive attempts need to be transformed into good ol’ hard work.

This might take a lot of coffee.

Oh and to keep you on your toes a little, I have two super easy and super delish recipes coming your way. Brown sugar roasted fig oatmeal and basil garlic goat cheese. Stay tuned!