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slice of life 🍵 waking up at 5AM, internship days in my life, trying pickleball & being an extrovert

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A slice-of-life look at internship days, starting with a 5AM routine, followed by hybrid work, co-working productivity, and a fun pickleball outing.

5AM Wake-Up + Quick Reset Routine

  • She’s usually not energized at 5:00 a.m., but a shower helps her feel awake.
  • On mornings with extra time, she focuses on:
    • washing her hair
    • making breakfast

Breakfast + At-Home Cleanup Flow

  • After breakfast, she loads the dishwasher before heading out—keeping the morning streamlined.

Outfit + Accessories as Part of the Daily Lifestyle

  • She loves summer-coded patterns like polka dots and stripes.
  • A “good outfit” includes matching accessories.
  • She even switches to a new phone case to match her dress.

Phone Case Upgrade (Casetify) + Practical Features

  • She uses Casetify Impact cases for strong protection, especially since she drops her phone a lot.
  • Key features she highlights:
    • Raised bezel + camera ring for better drop protection (especially corners)
    • Mirror case surface to touch up makeup without carrying a separate mirror
    • MagSafe compatibility to attach a snap-on mirror card holder, useful for:
      • storing cards
      • hands-free filming / propping up while watching videos or eating
  • She also mentions a summer lineup of prints (e.g., dotty/classic, star marks, metallic pink ribbon).

Work-Life Flexibility While Interning (Hybrid Days)

  • She enjoys working from home because she can choose her comfort level:
    • some days stay in PJs all day
    • other days she dresses up—even if it’s not strictly “work appropriate”
  • She participates in an Apple experience downtown, then returns to coworking.

Co-Working Productivity

  • She works in focused blocks, including tasks that feel puzzle-like.
  • Some work can progress slowly due to confusing visual similarities (described as difficulty working with brown-shade tones).
  • She uses cafes for “deep work” and finishes remaining interviews/projects there.

Internship Work Details + NDA Limitation

  • She works for a pharmacy software company.
  • Because she signed an NDA, she can’t share specific pipeline projects.
  • Her work includes:
    • product testing on the clinical product team
    • beta testing for new features, mixing:
      • QA-style thinking
      • real user “sleuthing” to find what works and what doesn’t

Fatigue Acknowledgment

  • After waking early with very little sleep, she’s exhausted by the end of the day.

Interview Day + Small Adaptation

  • During interviews, she avoids wearing over-ear headphones because she got a helix piercing the day before.

Lunch Setup

  • She mentions doing makeup during lunch so she doesn’t look disheveled later.

Breakfast Highlight: Filipino-Style Meal

  • She’s served Filipino breakfast, including:
    • scrambled eggs
    • spam
    • greens

Coworking Desk Upgrades

  • At-home setup includes:
    • a big monitor for multiple projects
    • a new keyboard she describes as extremely satisfying to type on (with a lively “rainbow” design and good sound)

Pickleball Outing (New Hobby / Extrovert Social Energy)

  • She goes to an event with Ara and Maple to play pickleball.
  • It’s:
    • her second time ever
    • Ara’s first time
  • She takes a beginner lesson and tries different paddle options.
  • Quickly learns pickleball is way harder than expected, and not like tennis.

Notable Locations, Products, and Speakers Mentioned

Locations / Venues

  • Downtown
  • Apple experience session
  • Multiple cafes
  • “Phone booth” interview area
  • Pickleball event location

Brands / Products

  • Casetify Impact phone cases + MagSafe mirror card holder
  • Demellier bag
  • New keyboard
  • Apple (experience)

People / Roles

  • Ara
  • Maple
  • “Friends” attending the Apple session (unnamed)

Health / Appearance Note

  • Helix piercing (recently gotten)

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