Dec 21, 2024
Guess what? I graduated from library school!!
seen from Italy
seen from South Korea
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Spain
seen from Italy
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Spain
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from Italy
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Thailand
seen from Malaysia
Guess what? I graduated from library school!!
Oh! Yesterday I got vaccinated! I got Pfizer!
Tahani got here today! I feel like she and Leslie would be friends!
LOVER UPDATE
Okay, so the new Taylor Swift album is AMAZING, but I think the song that I needed the most off it right now was “I Forgot That You Existed”, because it’s such a fucking MOOD.
Okay everyone today’s the day! I have a HUGE announcement! In exactly one month, I will be boarding a plane leaving out of Dulles, VA. Why? Where am I going? Excellent questions! I have been offered a job as a teaching assistant in FRANCE next school year through a program called TAPIF. I will be working in a middle school and a high school in a relatively small town located about 2 hours south of Rouen and 1.5 hours west of Paris. I will be teaching English! I can’t believe that I get the chance to do this, and that I get to use my degree right out of college. I have been sitting on this news for a while. I applied for the program around the beginning of January after spending the fall getting my application together. I found out that I had been accepted in April, literally the day before I went to go present my senior thesis at a conference. I got my contract at the end of June, and my visa in late July. I will probably be starting a new blog for my adventures! Keep an eye out for that! I literally cannot believe it. One month to go!
Quick Hamilton Tour Thoughts
I never noticed that there is the sound of a heartbeat right before Philip's death that cuts out right after he dies. I noticed it tonight.
Angelica's voice broke on "You could never be satisfied" in 'Reynolds Pamphlet'. That's a different emphasis than I've ever seen before. I like it.
Understudy Burr. Alexander Ferguson. GOOD. LORD. He's a fucking genius. I've never seen an interpretation quite like it. He's quieter and smoother and really embodies "Talk less, smile more". He also never gets angry until 'The World Was Wide Enough". As much as I LOVED Leslie as Burr on Broadway, he had the same energy and emotion throughout. This was different, and it was IMPORTANT.
Go see the tour.
GUESS WHAT EVERYONE!!!!!!
I FINISHED AND TURNED IN MY SENIOR THESIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, this is going to be my year. I’m definitely serious about this. There are things that I’m going to do this year.
1. Be brave. I’m really strongly platonically attracted to someone, and I should let her know. If something comes of it, something comes of it, but I feel like I owe it to this person. Feelings are weird, but I’ve learned that keeping silent about how I feel is the number one reason why I’m miserable all the time and that bottling up feelings is a habit that I need to break.
2. Develop a proper sleeping schedule. This involves being better at everything concerning time, especially homework. In bed by 12. Every night. No matter what.
3. Get back in the gym. I missed it so much this past semester. I really need it. Plus, I need to get strong to fight racist cheeto Voldemort.
4. Speaking of fighting him, I’m making it my mission to be more involved. Protests, activism, and making myself heard. I fear what he will get away with if we don’t stand up to him.
5. Stop putting garbage in my body. I’ve given up on trying to convince my body that it isn’t intolerant to dairy and gluten, because it definitely is. I’m going back to fully vegan next semester. No gluten. No dairy. No meat. No eggs. Forget it. If it works and I feel better, maybe gluten in the form of a samosa or a spring roll every blue moon, but right now I’m focused on actually healing it from the damage I’ve wreaked on it in trying to make everyone else’s lives easier in terms of my dietary needs.
6. Perfect eyeliner. It’s high time I learn how it actually works. Also, actually get a foundation match, wear glitter often, stop biting my nails, and really start building my higher-end cosmetic collection.
7. German. It’s REALLY rusty. I’m setting up Duolingo for it tonight, but what I really need is to buy myself is a book, and to look into German classes outside the college,because our only German professor is TERRIBLE.
8. Work towards MAT things. Set up the intent path, look into the Praxis II, talk to my adviser and the professor who mainly handles the foreign languages in the MAT, and actually get involved in the SEA.
9. Make some more friends! That’s going to be tough because I’m going to have so much work, but I need more people to hang out with and not be so lonely. I also need to stop shutting people out of my life for not liking their significant others, and be less stubborn about holding a grudge
10. Actually get my ass back in the therapist’s office. I’ve been avoiding it for waaaaaayyyyyyyy too long and things would be a lot better if I had someone to talk to to help me get this under control and also to properly diagnose my PTSD.
11. Make plans to go abroad. This involves a meeting with the Office of International Education
12. Get better at sewing so that I can make better costumes for cons.
13. Read more. At least four books a month. Okay, maybe three. I love to read so much, and I’ve realized that I need to make more time for it.
Above all, I’m going to thrive.