It’s been A WHILE! Last time I updated the blag was Christmas and since then I celebrated New Year’s Eve in Xi’an, finished a semester of classes, spent about seven weeks backpacking through southeast Asia, took a last minute #yolo trip to Australia, and started a new, and likely my last, semester of teaching English.
It’s been the best and I have a lot to catch up on in my feeble attempt at “blogging.” To be super honest, because I don’t know how else to be, I don’t where or how to start writing about 85% of the things I’ve been doing. But I really want to and I am going to FORCE MYSELF to write at least a few things resembling blog posts. However, right now, I don’t really want to share my thoughts on coffee in Thailand or seeing the Terracotta Warriors. I want to just dump my current thoughts on everything going on in my brain out into the internet. So:
- I miss my hairdryer and my straightener. A lot.
- Graduate school is expensive.
- Graduate school is something I want to do and am excited about, but am equally terrified about (see #2.)
- Things my country of permanent-ish residence needs: easy access to soft pretzels, chai lattes, dogs, and people who walk them in public.
- I realized I have a lot less of a social life than I imagined in my mind.
- I also realized I would like more of a social life.
- Why is there so much sugar in Coca-cola?
- It still bothers me that there is a “d” in fridge and not in “refrigerator.”
- Really not stoked about living in a country where my cost of living will be more than 200 USD a month.
- But stoked at the idea of living in a place where I can buy Yankee candles without paying for customs fees and international shipping. Like a normal human.
- I have no idea what “Damn Daniel” is and it seems kind of relevant to pop culture and I’m too afraid to ask at this point.
- My VPN on my phone no longer works (internally screaming) which means no Instagram, which means the very basic part of me is in agonizing pain.
- I can live out of a 33 liter backpack.
- I don’t want to live out of a 33 liter backpack again.
- Being nice and a positive, decent human is a really great thing WHY is it so underrated? WHEN did it become cool to be the opposite?
- “Work clothes” for me currently means “pants with an actual zipper.”
- Starting to write something back on the blag was 82% less painful than I thought it would be.
And that’s a very clear and detailed sketch of where I (mentally) am right now!
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