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Hi again, everyone
Feb. 17th, 2022 12:21 pmHi everyone!
It's been a while, huh. Some stuff has changed since last I posted, many, many, many years ago.
1) I like teaching now! Last time I posted on that was two whole Novembers ago, and while I hated the whole thing that semester, I picked up teaching the next semester on The Gothic and I had a really good time. I had some great students who got really into it and did some great essays that were really fun to read. (I'm the only person in the world who enjoys grading, apparently.) One poor, poor kid used buzzfeed as their main secondary source, which is so ludicrous that I'm cross with the kid, I'm cross with all the secondary school teachers who failed them.
2) My PhD is.....oof. Mm. Going okay, but also we're entering hustle time, which SUCKS, because my brain is broken. We're entering 'who do you want to be your external examiner' time and all my choices are bad or terrifying, and there is so much fucking work to do that i feel explodey. It's a good job I was planning on trying to get on ADHD meds soon.
3) Book has finally made an honest man of me (they contradict this), and we're working hard on getting them to the UK. (this is another reason point 2 sucks).
4) I finished that Star Quilt. Book's cat is currently sitting on it, because it's hers now. I also finished the Lancashire Quilt, which I didn't even manage to fully talk about on here yet but is massive and amazing and one of the best things I ever made. I hit my goal mentioned in the Star Quilt post of sewing stronger seams by hand; I've made a waistcoat, a dress, a pair of trousers, and a pair of stays all by hand since last September. Not in that order, though. My handsewing has improved so much, as have my patterning and other construction skills.
5) I'm mentally in a much better place. I'm not fantastic, but I went on birth control last year and it's really levelled me out. I used to be massively unstable for about a week and a half, maybe two weeks, every month, where I would be borderline suicidal out of nowhere. Now I don't have to deal with that any more, and bonus, I don't have to deal with periods either.
It's been a while, huh. Some stuff has changed since last I posted, many, many, many years ago.
1) I like teaching now! Last time I posted on that was two whole Novembers ago, and while I hated the whole thing that semester, I picked up teaching the next semester on The Gothic and I had a really good time. I had some great students who got really into it and did some great essays that were really fun to read. (I'm the only person in the world who enjoys grading, apparently.) One poor, poor kid used buzzfeed as their main secondary source, which is so ludicrous that I'm cross with the kid, I'm cross with all the secondary school teachers who failed them.
2) My PhD is.....oof. Mm. Going okay, but also we're entering hustle time, which SUCKS, because my brain is broken. We're entering 'who do you want to be your external examiner' time and all my choices are bad or terrifying, and there is so much fucking work to do that i feel explodey. It's a good job I was planning on trying to get on ADHD meds soon.
3) Book has finally made an honest man of me (they contradict this), and we're working hard on getting them to the UK. (this is another reason point 2 sucks).
4) I finished that Star Quilt. Book's cat is currently sitting on it, because it's hers now. I also finished the Lancashire Quilt, which I didn't even manage to fully talk about on here yet but is massive and amazing and one of the best things I ever made. I hit my goal mentioned in the Star Quilt post of sewing stronger seams by hand; I've made a waistcoat, a dress, a pair of trousers, and a pair of stays all by hand since last September. Not in that order, though. My handsewing has improved so much, as have my patterning and other construction skills.
5) I'm mentally in a much better place. I'm not fantastic, but I went on birth control last year and it's really levelled me out. I used to be massively unstable for about a week and a half, maybe two weeks, every month, where I would be borderline suicidal out of nowhere. Now I don't have to deal with that any more, and bonus, I don't have to deal with periods either.
