Patricia's Travels

✦   a little about me   ✦

I have a relatively serious office job, which is funny, because I’m not a very serious person. I spend my days inside systems, meetings, and neatly structured thoughts — while internally I’m just waiting for my next chance to disappear somewhere warm, green, or slightly inconvenient to get to.

I’m a creature of the outdoors forced into a calendar.

I travel whenever I can, which means my life is a cycle of booking flights, romanticizing airports (even though they do their absolute best to test my patience), and then coming back home to check which of my plants survived my absence. It’s a delicate relationship — I leave, they suffer, I return, we rebuild. Some of them have trust issues at this point.

I run on caffeine in all its socially acceptable forms: coffee when I want to feel put together, green tea when I’m pretending to be balanced, and energy drinks when things get a little… survival mode. Hydration is a concept I respect but don’t always practice.

I have strong, unwavering opinions about cats. I won’t elaborate, but I will judge you quietly based on yours.

There’s always a stack of unread books somewhere near me — not because I don’t read, but because I keep believing I will suddenly become the kind of person who reads three at once. Alongside that: dozens of poems, half-written, overfelt, and safely hidden in my notes where they can’t expose me.

Lately, I’ve been mentally living in the 70s. A bit of a hippie in theory — soft rebellion, big feelings, music that makes everything feel like a scene. In practice, I still show up on time and reply to emails.

I like creating in the widest sense of the word. Not polished, not always finished — just following whatever feels interesting, beautiful, or slightly obsessive at the moment. Some things turn into something. Some don’t. I keep going anyway.

I notice small details. I overthink. I romanticize things that don’t need it. I get attached to places, moments, songs, and versions of myself that only existed briefly.

I’m structured enough to function, chaotic enough to make it interesting, and curious enough to never really settle.

Still figuring things out. Probably always will be.