Current Projects and Optimism!
Nov. 14th, 2022 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heyitsharborThis has been a big year for me. It really has! I'd felt like I was in a rut for a long time, and I finally sought out therapy, and while I won't be able to continue that for much longer, I feel like in the past year...no, two years, I've made a lot of important progress, found new interests and worked on exploring old ones, as well as really found my place with some wonderful friends.
First things first, well, I have this blog! I have this blog because Twitter seems to be imploding, thanks to the arrogance, idiocy, and greed of a billionaire (though fingers crossed he can't call himself a billionaire much longer), and I wanted to make a website to simply collect the links, store pages, etc. of various artists and creators I might otherwise forget about.
So to do that? I made a Neocities! And then I found a tutorial on how to use Dreamwidth and some Javascript to display blog entries here on that website via RSS.... so long story short (ish?) I've been practicing HTML, CSS, and sort of kind of JavaScript too!
It's been a lot of fun, though this has only been the last week that I've messed around with it. I really hope to keep it up. I think keeping a little blog-journal will be good for me, and maybe even help me get away a bit from more....current, monopolizing social medias, which I'd like.
I've also been rediscovering, with the help of my brilliant and talented friends, my love of TTRPGs, and roleplaying in general. I'm in a Pathfinder campaign and it's one of the best things to happen to me in a long time, probably only beaten by, well, making the friends who I'm in this campaign with to begin with.
I'm also uncovering so much of what I now know to be symptoms and habits as a result of ADHD, and trying to figure out how I can help myself succeed, do what I need to do, not be harsh on myself, and that's been...difficult, but important. I'm barely over a month away from my last semester in undergrad (no plans to go to grad school. Nope. No way) and... I can't believe it. It took me a while to get here, it's been weird these last couple of years being older than 99% of my classmates, but it's been worth it so far to power through, I think. I hope.
But it's a huge end of an era, because I've been striving for this for.... this is the sixth or seventh year since I first took classes. When I started college, I was barely an adult, and in some ways college has put my life on hold, and I feel underprepared for the rest of my life....but at the same time I can't deny how much I know I've grown and learned regardless.
Anyway, I'm trying to be positive, and part of that positivity is in recognizing accomplishment. I'm here, I'm doing better than I was, and I'm looking forward to the next year. To my first trip....er, not overseas, but over borders, at least! To my first real non-self-employed job that I can keep up with without having to worry about college. To maybe another TTRPG campaign if I can fit the time in. To getting some fuckin' guns! (I'm working out again)
First things first, well, I have this blog! I have this blog because Twitter seems to be imploding, thanks to the arrogance, idiocy, and greed of a billionaire (though fingers crossed he can't call himself a billionaire much longer), and I wanted to make a website to simply collect the links, store pages, etc. of various artists and creators I might otherwise forget about.
So to do that? I made a Neocities! And then I found a tutorial on how to use Dreamwidth and some Javascript to display blog entries here on that website via RSS.... so long story short (ish?) I've been practicing HTML, CSS, and sort of kind of JavaScript too!
It's been a lot of fun, though this has only been the last week that I've messed around with it. I really hope to keep it up. I think keeping a little blog-journal will be good for me, and maybe even help me get away a bit from more....current, monopolizing social medias, which I'd like.
I've also been rediscovering, with the help of my brilliant and talented friends, my love of TTRPGs, and roleplaying in general. I'm in a Pathfinder campaign and it's one of the best things to happen to me in a long time, probably only beaten by, well, making the friends who I'm in this campaign with to begin with.
I'm also uncovering so much of what I now know to be symptoms and habits as a result of ADHD, and trying to figure out how I can help myself succeed, do what I need to do, not be harsh on myself, and that's been...difficult, but important. I'm barely over a month away from my last semester in undergrad (no plans to go to grad school. Nope. No way) and... I can't believe it. It took me a while to get here, it's been weird these last couple of years being older than 99% of my classmates, but it's been worth it so far to power through, I think. I hope.
But it's a huge end of an era, because I've been striving for this for.... this is the sixth or seventh year since I first took classes. When I started college, I was barely an adult, and in some ways college has put my life on hold, and I feel underprepared for the rest of my life....but at the same time I can't deny how much I know I've grown and learned regardless.
Anyway, I'm trying to be positive, and part of that positivity is in recognizing accomplishment. I'm here, I'm doing better than I was, and I'm looking forward to the next year. To my first trip....er, not overseas, but over borders, at least! To my first real non-self-employed job that I can keep up with without having to worry about college. To maybe another TTRPG campaign if I can fit the time in. To getting some fuckin' guns! (I'm working out again)
