Trying this whole digital journal thing again...
It took two years, but I think I'm going to try journalling here again. Whether that be just text by itself or with pictures, who knows? I went through and pretty much wiped my journal of basically everything. If you've been with me from the start, I did it because honestly I was embarrassed and I wanted a clean start.
Anyways, I hope to journal more here. I do have a bullet journal that I try and daily journal in but it's usually short thoughts and tracking my mood throughout the week, tracking books I've read, and any huge due dates or events in my life. So yeah, I want to do some more long-form writing here.
So UPDATES!
Three or four years ago I decided to go back to school. I graduated from community college with an Associates in English, transferred to Sac State where I graduated with my Bachelors in English with the honor of summa cum laude. And for the past 9 YEARS (this is crazy to me cause I had so many insecurities from how no one wanted to go out with me, I really was just a later bloomer), my partner and I have been together! When the pandemic happened, my partner was finishing up his MA while I was finishing my BA and he decided to go on to pursue his PhD which took us from Northern California to Northern Illinois. Once he finishes his PhD, I plan on going on to pursue my own PhD. He's studying Southeast Asian History and like me, wants to be a college professor.
A lot has happened in my life since I was active here and I am not really sure how to be short about it all because for years, I thought I'd have killed myself or died by the time I was 21 so to be 30 and being where I am...it's still a huge shock.
While in graduate school, which I started last Fall, I've also become a graduate teaching instructor so I am getting teaching experience while I'm getting my MA which is perfect. And before that, I was a tutor at a community college in the new city we moved to. I also work part-time at a public library and love it...although, I may be quitting if I end up getting my tutoring job back....while I love working at the library, it is kind of stressful to not have my Saturdays free and if I had my tutoring job again, I would still be able to do coursework while at work. I don't know. It's all dependent on if I get hired this summer as a summer tutor.
I'm happy to be back I think.
Anyways, I hope to journal more here. I do have a bullet journal that I try and daily journal in but it's usually short thoughts and tracking my mood throughout the week, tracking books I've read, and any huge due dates or events in my life. So yeah, I want to do some more long-form writing here.
So UPDATES!
Three or four years ago I decided to go back to school. I graduated from community college with an Associates in English, transferred to Sac State where I graduated with my Bachelors in English with the honor of summa cum laude. And for the past 9 YEARS (this is crazy to me cause I had so many insecurities from how no one wanted to go out with me, I really was just a later bloomer), my partner and I have been together! When the pandemic happened, my partner was finishing up his MA while I was finishing my BA and he decided to go on to pursue his PhD which took us from Northern California to Northern Illinois. Once he finishes his PhD, I plan on going on to pursue my own PhD. He's studying Southeast Asian History and like me, wants to be a college professor.
A lot has happened in my life since I was active here and I am not really sure how to be short about it all because for years, I thought I'd have killed myself or died by the time I was 21 so to be 30 and being where I am...it's still a huge shock.
While in graduate school, which I started last Fall, I've also become a graduate teaching instructor so I am getting teaching experience while I'm getting my MA which is perfect. And before that, I was a tutor at a community college in the new city we moved to. I also work part-time at a public library and love it...although, I may be quitting if I end up getting my tutoring job back....while I love working at the library, it is kind of stressful to not have my Saturdays free and if I had my tutoring job again, I would still be able to do coursework while at work. I don't know. It's all dependent on if I get hired this summer as a summer tutor.
I'm happy to be back I think.