it comes and goes
Lately I've been trying, and failing, to think of what to say when I come back to this blog. I'm not leaving (I like blogging far too much!), but I have made myself rather scarce lately. But what is there to write about? The urge to write comes and goes. I didn't really have any moments that made me stop and think, I need to write about this later. But I started this as a daily life archive, and so it will be a daily life archive.
I've been back home, real home, the past few days—and only a few days. I'm going back to the city soon to attend my first ever research conference! It took a lot of convincing my parents, a lot of logistics help from my friends, and a lot of money out of my bank account, but I'm finally going. I feel kind of bad for insisting so hard on it when it's such an inconvenience to take me back to the city, but I really, truly do want to go see how conference presentations work. I'll be working on my thesis soon since it's finally(!!) senior year in a few weeks, so I've been meaning to see for myself what the standards for presenting are.
In the meantime, I've been spending lots and lots of time with my family. And my dogs. My mom found my childhood Bible last night and read out my answers to some of the fun pages. I think I did a pretty good job of pretending not to be embarrassed. Apparently I wanted to be a singer as a little kid, which honestly surprised me—it must've been written before I ever learned what self-consciousness was. I hope little Valentine is proud of me, now that I can say that I take every single gig I can for the love of the game.
August really crept up on me, too. I still haven't decided if I want to join Blaugust again this year since I'll be busy as hell with the start of senior year, but I'll still try my best to come back here anyway. Here's to a fun August!