{"id":16154,"date":"2013-02-12T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:51:08","slug":"how-the-snow-thawed-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2013\/02\/12\/how-the-snow-thawed-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"How the snow thawed my brain…"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nI have a whole lot of stuff due this week and it\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. Speaking of icebergs\u2026\r\n\r\nThis weekend I had a ridiculous amount of work due, but I still managed to find time to for procrastination<\/span> hiking. I enjoyed the snow day last week, but I hadn\u2019t gotten a chance to get out in the white stuff and play. I was stuck inside studying. I forced myself out of the house on Sunday and I\u2019m so glad I did.\r\n\r\nI recently moved to an area that is ripe with rock formations and waterfalls\u2026if you are even vaguely aware of Ontario\u2019s topography and you consider the fact that I study at the St. George a campus, then you could probably guess where it is I live. That mental game will give you a few minutes of needed distraction.\r\n\r\nSo like I was saying, I finally got out into the snow and it was magical\u2026really it was. An hour of fresh cold air, the invigorating sensation of cold snow in your boots, the adrenaline rush when you almost slip five feet into an icy cold stream\u2026it was all good.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nAfter hiking to a nearby ravine I was face to face with a, icy twenty five foot waterfall. We spent about an hour playing in the snow, just being I awe of the natural beauty that surrounded us.\r\n\r\nBefore I went outside I was feeling really defeated, with a bad case of writer's block. I was struggling to get any words down on paper and I was frustrated.\r\n\r\nI'm not sure if I had just been in a waking sleep all day and the winter air just woke me up, but whatever biological or mental process that occurred during my winter hike cured my writer's block!\r\n\r\nSo I really killed a few birds with one stone. \u00a0I got some\u00a0exercise, I spent some quality time with my kids, I enjoyed what may be the last snowfall of the season (if Wiarton Willy is right) and I expelled all the stress from my system. \u00a0I was able to sit down at my computer after my hike and hammer out six sold pages of writing.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nIf you're suffering from a writer's block like I was, try a nice winter walk or some other form of exercise. I guess the experts are right it does really help!\r\n\r\n-Lori\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n
\nI have a whole lot of stuff due this week and it\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. Speaking of icebergs\u2026 This weekend I had a ridiculous amount of work due, but I still managed to find time to for…\n<\/div>
Continue reading “How the snow thawed my brain…”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>
Continue reading “How the snow thawed my brain…”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1,70,58,67],"tags":[1816,1850,10822,10821,1860,85,439,10823,1855,52,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions\/16193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}