I Missed You

Hello to my internet void.

I missed you. I missed airing out my random thoughts to no one listening. I missed posting my content every day, I missed annoying Adhyan into helping me stage photos until I liked them, I missed forcing my parents to like my posts.

In the year(!) since I've posted, I've got into college when I didn't think I could, had the longest summer of my life, started college, successfully(?) finished fall quarter, gone back home, and returned to a new quarter. College seems like a whole lot of everything and nothing. I wish I could say I'm an entirely different person since I started, and although sometimes I think there is a modicum of truth to it, some days when I get back to my dorm, I feel like 12th-grade Akshara, a little baby who has no idea how to survive alone, and that scares me.

Though I haven't posted on here, I've still baked a lot over the past year (wait for the posts!). I haven't baked too much in college, but Shaina and I (also an update! I made a new friend) have been trying to bake more in the Hitchen, the kitchen on the UCLA campus. We also made an Instagram account @saraandshainaeats for our food adventures together.

On our Instagram account, I talked about personal space and baking when I went back home over the winter break, and that's something I wanted to share on here. I've been struggling with the concept of space recently, so I keep going back to my little write-up, thinking about ways in which I can better cope.

Also, I made some fire brown butter chocolate chip bread with matcha and that made me so, so happy.

Hoping to share more of my adventures here and promising to keep you updated,

Akshara :)