September 23, 2023

Hey :p no blog in a month but ive been doing other updates! My life is going pretty well still, but with some concerns on the horizon! I'll get into that in a bit. Right now I'm currently in a very busy part of the school year, as my highschool quarter ends and college midterm projects start getting assigned. I've had to do 2-3 assignments everyday this weekend, and I have a 4 day weekend so.. i still have more to do. Ugh!!! I'm getting it all done though, have to stay responsible... it is something to do to make me feel productive even if its easy shit.

I've kinda been slacking on Norwegian and I'm scared I'm gonna fall off!!!! I just haven't been doing the hour a day I did for the first month and a half. I also reached a point with vocabulary where I couldn't take any new ones in anymore, and needed to just stay reviewing old ones for a while to make sure I retained them. I DID learn a LOT in only a month and a half, ~1000 words, and most of thema aren't cemented for long term memory yet so, I needed to slow down. I did start reading some children's books in Norwegian though to apply my skills. Its frustrating, because within my own vocabulary I can form some pretty complex sentences. I can describe my day in detail and write short stories. But when I read other peoples short stories I realize just how many "basic" words there are. I don't know all the basic vocab.. I struggle to read other peoples simple writing!! But I'll get better :3

One of the biggest changes this month is I now have an irl social life. I went over to Onyxs house last weekend with Zac & Jasper. It was fucking awesome and so fun, I hope we do it again soon. I know we're all busy college students so plans can't work out every week, but even once a month would satiate me. I also see them all irl on Tuesdays and Thursdays between classes. Talking with Onyx and Tyler just for these last few weeks are some of the most fulfilling conversations I've had irl in years. I hope I can get even closer to them all - I've had some progress in that via sending them art and stuff online that reminds me of them. I'm really happy to have people to talk to now.

I've had very little drive for hobbies lately, I don't know why. Usually when I'm busy with school I yearn to do something I actually enjoy, but lately I'd rather be doing nothing at all. Maybe a stage of burnout? I don't know, but I'm not trying to push it. If I don't want to do much, that's okay! Just need to watch out that it isn't a permanent development or turn into depression. I try to do something everyday to keep me engaged in my interests, like draw a little or today it's updating this site, but I'm not making myself do anything too intensive.

I've been spending a lot of time on Cyborg's discord server. Its been very active since his album dropped on the 15th. Some of the new members really annoy me, but I've made my peace with it and mostly just talk to the ones I do like. We've been playing a lot of Minecraft, a lot of fucking minecraft. i love it, thats exactly what I wanted to happen. Both the discord and minecraft server are thriving.