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...Yep, still can't believe I'm thirty. It still doesn't really ring true, and I don't expect it to for a while. And it's not like a vanity thing or whatever, but more like a milestone. Like, you've made it this far, let's review what you've done. ...I'll stick to the positives.
-I've met some of the greatest, kindest, and most kickass people who I'm fortunate to have in my life. I stay sane thanks to them.
-I've finally traveled west of the Mississippi river! (And if we're counting in the last ten years of my life, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean!) I've been to Chicago, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Austin. All of them were so cool (not in a literal sense though because hi, summer trips), and I can definitely say I liked them way more than New York City.
-Have I mentioned my amazing friends? (I have, I know. It just bears repeating.) Seriously, I never imagined I'd know the people I know and love.
-I got to go to my first fandom-related con! (I'd only been to a theatre one previously.) RTX was amazing and I got to meet Shannon and Kathleen, and many others from Rooster Teeth.
-I ran an rp game for three seasons. It was definitely an experience, and I really want to use what I did as part of a writing portfolio. It'll be unconventional, I'm sure, but it's still something I wrote and created. (I ran another for a year, but that wasn't my game.)
-My writing's improved immensely since I started in high school. I do NOT miss writing pointless essays. I'd rather tl;dr about things that matter to me and am passionate about.
-I got to see my little brother grow up nice and freaking tall, and into a good guy. He's moving at the end of the month to Brooklyn (or rather, around the Williamsburg area, but details), so that'll be different. It's one thing to be the one who moves away; it's another to be the one left behind. The roles are reversed for us this time. I don't know if that's quite hit me yet because I don't feel like it has. Maybe it's because I've done the moving away thing before. He never left for college; he commuted because he wasn't insane and didn't go to a private college like I had. (Though if I hadn't, I wouldn't have met people who'll forever be my life-long friends.) So, that'll be different.
So yeah, over all, some very lovely and nice things! I don't know what the future holds, but hopefully, things will only get better, and more fun. I'd like that.
-I've met some of the greatest, kindest, and most kickass people who I'm fortunate to have in my life. I stay sane thanks to them.
-I've finally traveled west of the Mississippi river! (And if we're counting in the last ten years of my life, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean!) I've been to Chicago, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Austin. All of them were so cool (not in a literal sense though because hi, summer trips), and I can definitely say I liked them way more than New York City.
-Have I mentioned my amazing friends? (I have, I know. It just bears repeating.) Seriously, I never imagined I'd know the people I know and love.
-I got to go to my first fandom-related con! (I'd only been to a theatre one previously.) RTX was amazing and I got to meet Shannon and Kathleen, and many others from Rooster Teeth.
-I ran an rp game for three seasons. It was definitely an experience, and I really want to use what I did as part of a writing portfolio. It'll be unconventional, I'm sure, but it's still something I wrote and created. (I ran another for a year, but that wasn't my game.)
-My writing's improved immensely since I started in high school. I do NOT miss writing pointless essays. I'd rather tl;dr about things that matter to me and am passionate about.
-I got to see my little brother grow up nice and freaking tall, and into a good guy. He's moving at the end of the month to Brooklyn (or rather, around the Williamsburg area, but details), so that'll be different. It's one thing to be the one who moves away; it's another to be the one left behind. The roles are reversed for us this time. I don't know if that's quite hit me yet because I don't feel like it has. Maybe it's because I've done the moving away thing before. He never left for college; he commuted because he wasn't insane and didn't go to a private college like I had. (Though if I hadn't, I wouldn't have met people who'll forever be my life-long friends.) So, that'll be different.
So yeah, over all, some very lovely and nice things! I don't know what the future holds, but hopefully, things will only get better, and more fun. I'd like that.