I know it's been a while. I'm a junior-almost-senior in college now. I've got books to read and projects to work on and Netflix to watch and stories and papers to write, people!
Since I'm always so busy with school stuff, I thought I'd use this space to tell you guys what classes I'm enrolled in and how they're going, etc.
Current Courses I'm taking
Major: Writing for Change: Advocacy Writing
| Minor: Theories and Methods of Religion
African American Religious Thought
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New/Other Things I'm Doing
UCA Vortex Literary Magazine
- I'm still working as a fiction judge, which can be added to my resume under work experience!
- several of my pieces (short stories, poems, and a nonfiction work) have been accepted, and right now we're working on the print edition so I can't wait to see my words in it!
- I've been working behind the scenes in the sound booth for at least a couple years now - I put the words to songs and scriptures up on the projection screens and also run videos/movies when we show them
- my mom and I started working in the nursery together - it's on a volunteer rotation each Sunday - a couple months ago (our second time doing a lesson will be this Sunday)
- as of two weeks ago, I am now in charge of planning BGMC ("Boys and Girls Missionary Challenge") lessons to teach the kids in children's church
- I just started and I already really enjoy it because I can find really neat fun facts about countries all around the world that the kids may not have heard of and I can help immerse them in a different culture (teaching them about diversity is so important!)
- I try to be done with homework by 7 or before 8 every night so I have time to relax and watch Hulu/Netflix before I go to bed after 11 - haha I'm nuts but it's a good schedule for me
- Recent Hulu Obsessions: America's Next Top Model, Bones, The X-Files, Law and Order: SVU, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Recent Netflix Obsessions: Dexter (FAVE!!!), That 70's Show (also a big fave!), The End of the F***ing World, Riverdale (lol), Gilmore Girls (kinda), Atypical
- I've also made a habit of watching Rhett and Link's "Good Mythical Morning" on YouTube every day - usually during my lunch break
Aspirations for the Year
- Apply for graduation? I think I'm supposed to do that a year in advance, so hopefully I'm graduating in May 2019, lol.
- Write more (probably during the summer). I'm bad at making myself do it outside of class.
- Try to get my senior schedule figured out...the classes I need to be able to graduate either are not offered on certain semesters or they're all offered in the same time slot. I have much anxiety about it.
- Hang out with my friends more. We gotta get together for more holidays and bdays and regular days, golly gee!
- Be involved in more social activism.
- Get a job this summer maybe? HAH
- Look into publishing my writing across the country.
- Thrift! I haven't been in a while.
- Go to more concerts!!! I'm dying to see the Arctic Monkeys and the Killers, so I hope they come to Arkansas soon. And the Avett Brothers because they didn't come here last year and I need to see them a third time ASAP.