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Whoops its been a while since I was here last! Got busy with uni, surviving the plague, moving in with friends and then moving again to escape ex-friends, and all the while learning more about politics and history and people and realizing that i'm pretty leftist, so that's cool. I've barely written for myself in the past year though, and now that I'm finally in a stable living situation and the brain-static seems to be lifting a little, perhaps I'll make a comeback here Hope y'all are doing good!

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Oh boy, I've been thinking about LMS ever since I learned about it, but now I have to make a decision, and I don't want to join and then immediately drop out if I'm busy, but I also don't want to not even try... And I'm almost done planning my current project so it would be the perfect incentive to really finish it! (It's actually a revamp and "actually planning so I get it right this time" after several false starts, but since I'll be writing everything new I don't think that matters.) Argh decisions...

Hey, so... guess I disappeared for a while there. Sorry about that! This summer's been kind of crazy, and it feels like it just disappeared! Anyways, how have you all been? Do anything cool this summer?

I've been working full time (I got the job I was worried about, and it's been hard but also really interesting and fun - it requires a fair amount of public speaking, which terrifies me, but I think I'm getting better!). Aside from that I mostly just read, wasted time on the computer, and managed to spend a bit of time with friends. Also, even though I've written barely anything, I've been trying to outline my story properly and had a couple revelations on what I want it to be about, so that's good, and I'm hoping to have a little more brainspace and time to start redrafting it once I get settled - because I'm going to university this fall! So that's been a lot of stuff to do to get ready to go away - I'm not only going to school, but I'm moving to a completely different province - it's like a 2 hour plane ride, which doesn't sound like much but it's a terrifying distance on the ground. But I've been to the city before and it's beautiful, and I'll be by the sea! And I'm hoping that in the process of moving I'll pare down my clutter and have more brainspace for thinking and living and such. Anyways, that turned into a life update... Um, I'm going to try to be around here more, but we'll see how much energy I have for reviews and such. So hi again I guess!

Welp, this is a bit late, but I'd just like to say that April was really fun - attempting to complete #NaPoWriMo really pushed me to write down anything remotely poetic that I thought of (which was really good because I think of lots of things but rarely make it to the writing-down process...) and then wrangle these bits into passable poems on a deadline. And while I only wrote 13 instead of the attempted 30 poems, that's still 13 poems! That's about 11 more that I usually write in a good month.

So many thanks to @alliyah, who pushed me to sign up for NaPo, and @niteowl, my other NaPo buddy! Belated congratulations to both of you for writing so many amazing poems, and thank you so much for your encouragement and comments. If you haven't already, go read their beautiful NaPo threads.

(I know, I know, this is really late, sorry... *fades away into the void from whence she came*)

And Review Day just snuck up on me! I really wanted to do it this month, but it's evening now and tomorrow's going to be super busy. Maybe I'll join a team and just do one. Every little bit counts, right? Right.

AAH! April (and NaPo) is almost here! I guess it's time to see what I did of my #MarchGoals !
- I'm definitely more caught up on Poems a Week than I was! Only a few behind now.
- I applied for that job! And got an interview! And circumstances have made last year's job potentially super boring this year, so the hard decision has now become a lot easier. Crossing my fingers that I get the new job!
- I'm not done the online courses... I guess it's a good thing I have a few weeks before their actual deadlines.
- I have applied to precisely one scholarship this month! And I have a giant bookmark folder of a bunch more I can apply to, organized by due date. It's both stressful and reassuring at once.
- This month, I have written... nearly nothing. Barely even any reviews. Oops. I think I've just been in a writing funk, not to mention that my energy has been distracted by all my other goals and also surviving this two-week-long cold that has swept through my family and severely depleted my thinking and breathing abilities.
-And last but not least, I think I actually aced my last goal! I got a new tuner, and have been practicing my guitar almost daily! I still think I should probably get lessons, to make sure I learn proper technique and whatnot, but I've been really enjoying this self-motivated thing. Who knew? Alright, I knew, but still. School made me forget how enjoyable it is to have a project that's just mine. (Writing doesn't count here because I don't write enough. I should though.)
Well, it's been an ok month. I'm ready for April to start now!

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