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Well, I haven't posted in three years, which is awkward, because the top entry is the end of year survey from 2015, written under the long shadow of my dad's death.

2018 update: dad still dead.

Anyway, now people are using this website again, which is great! I keep wanting to write thoughtful things but never know where to put them or how to find time and energy to actually do it. So here's some kind of rundown of who and what I am on the other side of the great We All (Minus Becca, Bless Her) Stopped Longform Blogging Vacation.

• Very recently figured out that the different names I use in different spaces exist on a sort of spectrum which would look more or less like so:

<---PUBLIC, SOCIETALLY DICTATED-----------------------------PRIVATE, SELF-CURATED--->

[full given name]---[shortened professional name]---[public social media nickname]---[private/fannish social media nickname]---[intimate nickname]

 

DW falls towards the right side of the spectrum, under Private/Fannish Social Media Nick: Tris. See also: tumblr (presentstone, a little to the left), locked twitter (@arglebargh, a little to the right).

One step to the left, my public social media goes under the name RK Beatrice and username @beatricks (public twitter, instagram, goodreads). Still working on the awkward process of Owning It, and by It I mean my hideously specific personality and interests, in public, while also allowing myself the grace of a half-pseudonym, since my surname is unique and my career will probably not benefit from easily googled shitposts and political opinions.

• Career! The whole world was shocked and awed this spring to watch me, age 34, ascend a modest university dais and receive my BA in psychology. Due to transfer student life being fucked, I wrote my senior undergraduate thesis in 2016/17 before wrapping up my degree requirements with my junior year field placement, which I began last fall. My future boss, the ED of a local community nonprofit, lulled me into a false sense of security with the word "intern," only for me to realize three training-less months later that I had become the full-time case manager and de facto program administrator of multiple county contracts. So I've been doing that--which is to say, making it up as I go along--for approximately 15 months now. Adventure! Originally I decided to go for the psych degree as a first step of pursuing MFT licensure, but am no longer so sure about becoming a therapist. Instead, I am thinking hard about going for an MSW and opting to become an LCSW, because the one thing that unites all fields of social services are endless amounts of abbreviations.

• Living with my mom (woof) and sister (woof) and dog (arf) and cat (mew).

I haven't written or read fic for a bunch of years, and I no longer really have the brainspace to watch massive amounts of TV the way I used to. In 2015 and 2016 I listened to over a hundred audiobooks, but my life isn't structured in a way that makes that super easy anymore, either. So now I just read a fairly normal amount of books (I'm at 36 for the year, which is significantly behind on my 52-book goal but on the bright side is 69% #nice) and watch a pretty normal amount of TV. I've also been drawing and occasionally even painting! Feels like media could and maybe should be a whole other post. But here's a rapid fire list of some things current or recent:

• Mitski's teen girl anthemic, blue album weezer-sounding album Bury Me At Make Out Creek - shut up, YOU'RE 4 years behind the times
• Schitt's Creek, David and Patrick, Patrick and David, I die
• If you haven't watched The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo how do you even generate the will to live anymore
• Having a hard time keeping up interest in TAZ Amnesty
• And also in Ninefox Gambit, please send help
• Listen I don't condone her tactics but at the same time Ma Anand Sheela is the most amazing real-life anti-hero I've maybe ever seen and if that sounds like your shit watch Wild Wild Country on Netflix, is it okay that I love this deranged convicted criminal
• Steven Universe.... in one week! before another probable year of nothing! aw yeah
• peace