I feel like over the course of this semester I have fallen into a bit of a cycle. One where I get busy, do not make time to write a blog post decide to skip a week, let one week turn into two or more and then I find my footing again a write a life update sort of post to welcome myself back to the land of the living. This go-around is seemingly no different.
At the end of the day, I am still extremely new to this whole content creator thing and it is truly just a hobby at this point. I am still a full-time student, with a part-time job and a life, so sometimes things fall by the wayside, and if this has to be the first thing to go then this has to be the first thing to go.
We only have two weeks left in the semester, classes end next week. Not going to lie, I am tired and overwhelmed but I am trying my hardest to just take it one thing at a time. I am not too super worried about finals, but I definitely still want to use my study time wisely and prepare appropriately. As usual, I feel like I have one jury piece down to the point I could record it and submit it for Grammy consideration, and the other I never want to see the light of day.
Life isn’t going to be slowing down anytime soon. I am going to be staying in Washington this summer. I have an internship as a technical intern at a local theatre. I also am going to be working as an office assistant at the business school at my university. Me being me, I somehow mixed up the internship being 10 weeks, with it being 10 hours a week when it is in fact 28 hours a week, with my little office job being 14 hours a week. You read that right, I am going to be working around 38 hours a week this summer.
I also applied for a second job on campus on a whim, and what do you know. So next fall I will not only be a fourth-year stage manager, but also a first-year barista. I am so excited. I love my current job, but I am really excited to expand my skillset and open myself up to new opportunities. I think it’s going to be really cool and really exciting. I am also going to be an orientation leader in the fall, which still feels like a huge honor and a really big deal.
In terms of music, the last time I had to update my copyright password, I noticed that it said that the status of the case was closed. Which is progress. Baby steps. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself but I am likely going to start working on my marketing and promotion place before too long because that is our next step. This album is definitely going to be released this year which is amazing. It gives me butterflies just to think about it.
I have so many ideas for creative projects that I want to work on this summer. I definitely want to try and get into a rhythm with creating and posting content. Ideally, over the summer I get a head-on my plan or create a back stock of evergreen content that could be posted whenever. I also just want to figure out the best way for me to the content plan. I have a ton of ideas for an EP, so I am really hoping to get back into songwriting and really work on that. (I feel like I do most of my songwriting over the summer anyway, so finger crossed) I also wrote like 366 poems last year, so might do something with that. I also have been really into drawing recently, and have kind of been thinking about posting something on Red Bubble just for fun.
There’s a lot of things that I am going to be doing this summer. I want to do a lot of things this summer. But above all, I just want to take some time for myself. I want to focus on me, and my growth, and figuring out what I want and need out of life. I don’t really want to think about it, but a year from now I graduate, and I have known as my freshman year in college I could not go to grad school right after this. So, I kinda need to figure out some sort of 12% of a plan of what I want to do after this. So why not take 14 weeks in Washington state to do so?
Long story short, I am figuring it out. Which is something that used to make me kind of anxious, but I realize it is just kind of life.
