i've been living life!

School started again, so I've been kind of inactive as I worm my away around a completely new department of my school. I'm trying to get an anthropology minor in my last two semesters, so that's what I've been up to.

I've also been inactive.... because I somehow flipped my sleep schedule around. I'm sleeping at 12 or before that now semi-frequently. It's kind of crazy. I'm so used to hanging out on the internet until 6AM, then crashing and burning, dealing with the consequences later. Now's a good time to change!

I've also been taking care of my friend. She's been under the weather and her roommates clearly don't care about her wellbeing. I've been walking over to her house with homemade soups that are good for the soul. I made her beef congee, egg drop soup, and today I brought over a rice cake soup my mom always made for me. It's always comforted me when I was ill, so I decided to share that little part of myself with her. She's never had rice cakes before and now's a good time to try them. It's always important to take care of your friends.

Mentally, I've been doing quite alright. I'm crashing out less over the people in my life now that the ones who are gone are just that— gone! I've substituted things in my life for good company, cold calls with friends that care, pursuing an education, and spending time at home. I knew things would end up okay. I wrote my very first vent blogpost about my dumbass ex boyfriend, ending it off with how I had my friends with me. Things will look up. It's true! On top of that, it really didn't take much time at all. Usually if he's ever brought up these days, it's usually for laughs. 

I'm still saying hi to the twins that run my favorite cafe and generally sort of enjoying art and my life. Bless!!!

If I were to complain about something, it would be my classes. I've been absolutely spoiled rotten by my history professors being so beautifully articulate and organized. The anthropology courses I'm in right now are a HOT MESS in comparison. Rambling professors who don't get to the point, readings that aren't in folders where they SHOULD be, and sort of uninteresting/nothing-burger readings are unfortunately what I'm going to be trudging through it seems.

I do have ONE class that I am interested in though and it's my history of anthropological thought class. We talked about Orientalism and its different definitions/features. We talked a lot about Edward Said, who is someone that I've been absolutely meaning to read and now I guess I have an excuse to! He talked about orientalism as a corporate institution that produces a knowledge on "the Orient" and are also engaged in the direct exercise of control and regulation of those societies. Orientalist knowledge is embedded and essential to the operation of these different institutions and to think of orientalism as a corporate institution means that it's not JUST a form of knowledge but a form of domination!! Orientalism places the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with these societies without ever losing themselves in having a relative upper hand. 

Anyways, that's enough of my academic blabber. That's what I've been up to!! I've been having fun and living my life. I always come back to Spacehey though. I like updating the people that read these about the things I'm up to and to reassure others that they'll be able to find happiness in the little things.