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Aug. 1st, 2015 10:17 pm*squint* What if I try and post at least once every day in August? Might as well, I guess.
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So I don't think I ever mentioned this on DW, though I did on Tumblr and Twitter, but I've been in New Orleans all summer -- I kept meaning to go home and I kept putting it off and then I ultimately decided not to do so, much to the surprise of my parents. This is the longest I've ever gone without going back to Washington, including when I lived in England. I mean, there are a couple of different reasons I'm not going home (it is apparently hot hot hot in WA, and my house doesn't have air-conditioning; I cannot deal with being forced to my dad talk politics; I hate traveling; all my stuff is here), but...I don't know. It's kind of weird. I'm okay with it, though. Even though I'm sad I'm missing the Star Wars costume exhibit at the EMP; I just couldn't force myself to go back to Washington just for that.
Oh, other thing I didn't mention! I dyed my hair purple about three days before I got my tattoo.
...yeah, I thought I'd go all out on the quarter-life crisis. My hair's too dark for it to come out PURPLE-purple, but it's brown with a really nice violet sheen and I like it, which means I'm probably going to keep doing it. I got my hair cut a few weeks ago, and it ended up getting cut almost half a foot shorter than I actually wanted it to be, and it threw me into a circle of angst and permanency issues, which I dealt with by...getting a tattoo. Uh, permanency, hello. Also dyeing my hair, which: less permanency, but at least a change.
Plus, it lets me go back to school and be all, "Sure, maybe you did fieldwork in a foreign country this summer, but I learned French, dyed my hair purple, and got a Star Wars tattoo, SO THERE" oh god am I a manic pixie dreamgirl? Whatever.
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I need to settle down and figure out a thesis topic -- I thought I had one, but doing the preliminary research was boring me stupid (if at any point I'm wailing "I DON'T CARE" during the preliminary stages, that's not a good thesis topic), so I have to switch gears. I have a thing I might do, maybe, but I need to get back up to uni and raid the library again since I've still got a zillion books out for the previous topic.
I also need to start seriously looking at PhD programs. Again. For round four. Maybe I'll actually get in this time. *twitch* In the past I've always missed deadlines, but if I make sure that I just do one thing a day, hopefully...well. (I'm antsy about academia because I'm not sure I actually care enough about anything to do a PhD, but at this point I feel like I'm in too deep. Well. Well. Here we are.)
Back to school in about three and a half weeks, sigh. Though the grade schools in NOLA go back on Monday, what the hell -- this is completely alien to me, since back home neither the public schools nor the university start until after Labor Day (because everyone's taken up with the county fair and rodeo. Which I am missing, again).
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So I don't think I ever mentioned this on DW, though I did on Tumblr and Twitter, but I've been in New Orleans all summer -- I kept meaning to go home and I kept putting it off and then I ultimately decided not to do so, much to the surprise of my parents. This is the longest I've ever gone without going back to Washington, including when I lived in England. I mean, there are a couple of different reasons I'm not going home (it is apparently hot hot hot in WA, and my house doesn't have air-conditioning; I cannot deal with being forced to my dad talk politics; I hate traveling; all my stuff is here), but...I don't know. It's kind of weird. I'm okay with it, though. Even though I'm sad I'm missing the Star Wars costume exhibit at the EMP; I just couldn't force myself to go back to Washington just for that.
Oh, other thing I didn't mention! I dyed my hair purple about three days before I got my tattoo.
...yeah, I thought I'd go all out on the quarter-life crisis. My hair's too dark for it to come out PURPLE-purple, but it's brown with a really nice violet sheen and I like it, which means I'm probably going to keep doing it. I got my hair cut a few weeks ago, and it ended up getting cut almost half a foot shorter than I actually wanted it to be, and it threw me into a circle of angst and permanency issues, which I dealt with by...getting a tattoo. Uh, permanency, hello. Also dyeing my hair, which: less permanency, but at least a change.
Plus, it lets me go back to school and be all, "Sure, maybe you did fieldwork in a foreign country this summer, but I learned French, dyed my hair purple, and got a Star Wars tattoo, SO THERE" oh god am I a manic pixie dreamgirl? Whatever.
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I need to settle down and figure out a thesis topic -- I thought I had one, but doing the preliminary research was boring me stupid (if at any point I'm wailing "I DON'T CARE" during the preliminary stages, that's not a good thesis topic), so I have to switch gears. I have a thing I might do, maybe, but I need to get back up to uni and raid the library again since I've still got a zillion books out for the previous topic.
I also need to start seriously looking at PhD programs. Again. For round four. Maybe I'll actually get in this time. *twitch* In the past I've always missed deadlines, but if I make sure that I just do one thing a day, hopefully...well. (I'm antsy about academia because I'm not sure I actually care enough about anything to do a PhD, but at this point I feel like I'm in too deep. Well. Well. Here we are.)
Back to school in about three and a half weeks, sigh. Though the grade schools in NOLA go back on Monday, what the hell -- this is completely alien to me, since back home neither the public schools nor the university start until after Labor Day (because everyone's taken up with the county fair and rodeo. Which I am missing, again).