I just got offered a masters in china this Monday.
This Friday I got offered a masters in the arctic.
I am . very conflicted.

A friend I haven’t spoken to in years reached out from a rough situation asking if I had any leads on work. She mentioned some experience with a certain field, and I asked the one person I know in that field. Turns out he’s going on paternal leave and needs someone to cover for him, and he immediately reached out to her. I should help people more often, this shit is easy.

i love my fiancée so much

Spent my Saturday at a sand castle competition watching professional sand castle people make sand castles. It was pretty neat. I’m going to post some photos in a bit. There were people from Germany, Canadia, Russia, France, and other places here, to build sand castles. It was really fun. I took almost 900 photos today. There were thousands of people out there, and everyone was orderly, no drama, people said excuse me, and were polite. It was really nice, that part.

Brought the little one to a little carnival thing that’s in town and seeing the absolute pure joy on a kid’s face when the fish ride starts going is wonderful.

Applied to loads of jobs as of late… far more than I’ve ever done. This is because I’ve opened myself up to taking the bus and working at distant places if I must, so a lot less was off the table. I have some interviews, and I hope they go well for me.

My birthday is nearby, and I told myself that I hope that I get hired by my birthday… don’t know if I will, but, hopefully, at least, a little bit after.

Just barely from the past week:

Got some pickled hot peppers and finished a book I’d been reading. Feels like I’m recovering or at least getting to a stable place mentally.

After venturing into art and music. I discovered that I am better at writing. So I have begun my journey as a novelist in Lit. Fantasy. I just started writing my first book and I feel happy for once.

I went to a bead store yesterday and the owner so nice and really knew what she was talking about.

I dont know much about beading and told her that and she was drawing me diagrams and giving me different product recommendations based off what I wanted and price range.

I also tried a new drink from a boba place that was great and got a shiny perfect IV riolu in Pokémon go.

Played boardgames with my friends

I went on a small weekend trip with my comrade who kissed me at the start of the week, it was very pleasant! (deliberate understatement).

I have a phone screening tomorrow for an ACTUALLY SALARIED position. It pays pretty good

But if that fails, already my summer gig asked me to apply to a fall position so my worst case scenario goes from a summer job to a summer and fall job.

My chicks are about 4 weeks old now and quickly entering awkward teenage phase. Will hopefully transitioning them to their coop in a few more weeks.

Also a group I help started for local needs is still going strong despite my not being there really the last few months cause of health and now surgery recovery. They are good people and I’m hoping we can build a strong base to get things moving in the right direction for more collapse shit happening. It’s honestly been very up lifting the amount of people who have reached out to provide resources or help in some way or another. I think regardless of what happens our area will be able to respond.

Saw a mantis this morning. Would not sit still to have its photo taken, very cute though.