Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll............
.........that was some hiatus. I'm not sure. If I even recognize me.
Kids these days.
Kids these days.
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How are your life endeavors?
Hi, Lee.
Oh dang, that's sorry to hear. Now that I'm done with school, I know how it's really not for everyone. What were you hoping to go for?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Yarr: -hugs back- =) It kinda worked out. I had a lot of issues my last year. One of the main things was getting a concussion that made school difficult.
I didn't know if I was coming back. Or that the forum lived on.
Crystal: Thank you.
still making music?
No, not anymore. I don't do much of anything anymore. I learned finally that nothing that makes you happy really matters. You just settle and realize you are worthless compared to your crazy supervisor's messed up children.
AU: I feel on black ice two thanksgivings ago. I hit my temple and had a minor concussion. It wasn't terrible, but it did affect my brainhole. Stress did not help and last year was recovery.
How's things going for you otherwise?
EDIT: (And you guys are still together?? YAY! :))
Nice, I'm glad y'all are still together.
The teaching part is great.
The grading part is...well, grating.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
What are you focusing on in your writing?
I also got my will back to write, but a few weeks ago I gave up again. One day it'll come back for real.
I mostly focus on original piece. A lot of my stuff is surreal and kind of dark. It varies from fantasy to more real world based stuff.
Fairly, there's a lot of dying, dysfunction, commentary on drug abuse. A lot of it is reflections on things that have happened to me and people I know. I'm one of those "draw on your your ~experience~" kind of writers.
And I love fantastical shit, I just haven't don't as much recently because writing is a catharsis for me and has helped me reconcile some things.
environmental science
the students are decent for the most part
the problem is the amount of busywork in the lab write-ups
Blah, I remember my Environmental Science 101 labs. They made us go down to the local river and chop down weeds.
this is also the basic lab for non-majors
i personally focus on forest policy but that has little relationship to this class
or something like that
Are you going to be a state park ranger?
Why, yes, yes I am and did. I need to get back into swimming, it's been awhile. Tehnically I only lived in Idaho for 12 years. I was born in Nevada.
Never actually did so as a formal sport, but it's something I like doing. And my skin is mostly better now so I can actually do it.
I also need more exercise anyway.
And I think I might actually get into policy stuff. I'm most interested in climate change policy. Forest policy is something I'm researching in the context of climate change mitigation efforts.
I prefer open water swimming to pool swimming.
That's pretty cool, actually. What kind of specifics for climate change policy? Like, for companies that need to be more environmentally aware?
And, I'm talking about things like efforts to encourage regrowth and preservation of forests.
Mitigation is ways to keep greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere, or to remove them from the atmosphere. So, regrowing forests or preserving existing forests are ways to do that.
Ah, I see,
I have always like the idea of mitigation but people make it seem very unfeasible; that it would take too much space to grow enough trees to make a difference.
Not necessarily the same ones as used to be there, so you can gripe about biodiversity loss, but it's still better than nothing.
Big problem in some tropical countries is deforestation. Affecting places like Indonesia, Brazil, DRC, Ecuador, etc.. Causes range from cash crops/pastures to wanting to put up plantations for certain products to subsistence farming (less frequently) to fossil fuel production.
Quick update: I'm at Ohio State now majoring in civil engineering, Anonus and I are still together and we see each other in person at least once a year, and I'm finally making progress toward living as a woman, with my name change hearing scheduled for next week. :D