So, that was a hiatus.
It’s been way too long (I think circa two months?) since I last posted, but I’m breaking my impromptu leave of absence to say hello! I’m on winter break. That means no homework, no literary magazine, no newspaper, and no waking up at seven in the morning, which means that I can resume being nocturnal and blogging once more. Everything feels more comfortable when I have a WordPress tab open.
I’ll do some real posts in the coming days, but because tonight is a diary night and not a dubiously “academic” rant night, I have only a list of things I did on my accidental hiatus in roughly chronological order:
- wrote a novel and a half (110,000 words, to be exact, which is the main reason why I have not been here. It was profoundly fun and it even let me live in a hypomanic state for more than a month, but now I’m permanently sleepy).
- had a chat with my adviser, in which I awkwardly said, “uh, my classes here are not challenging me like I want them to; I might transfer” and she said, “oh, I get that, but don’t transfer, because I can fix it. Want to do some specialized one-on-one direct inquiries?”(I then came to understand the true meaning of ambivalence and now I don’t know where I’m living next year)
- decided that I’m going to become an editor of children’s fiction by day while I write literary stuff by night (which feels so innately right that I swear I won’t change my mind again)
- wrote way too many papers
- picked up an Emily Dickinson obsession
- decided to minor in European History and obsess over medieval English royalty every day while I stand in the bread line
- took and passed final exams
- took and passed the GED test in the fine state of West Virginia (cue the temptation to go on Facebook and make a bitchy status implying that, “gee, looks like those three extra years of high school really WEREN’T needed”)
- took and passed MORE final exams
- took and maybe didn’t pass the ACT (In the course of one semester, I forgot everything I ever knew about math. Eight years of instruction cannot be relearned in the span of two days, it turns out.)
- sleep
- Broken Bells
- toaster waffles
- Birthday Massacre show in a scary scary Goth club
- baths
- the library
…and that is what you have missed. (Unless you read my Tumblr, in which case you’ve missed very little and you also have the gory details of every annoying homework assignment I’ve ever done, since I mercilessly liveblog my homework via Tumblr).
