hi my loves! i was in a career-altering situation this june and had to remove all distractions to focus on doing my best to secure my opportunity. long story short, i was still unable to secure it, so now i have one year of wandering and finding myself to do…
There were so many pieces I wanted to write, but that can all wait; a few teasers for what’s planned!
a brief history of lesbian pop
am i in love or do i just love him?
dealing with rejection
more poetry analyses and essays over at my second publication the uncanny poetry club
and more!
Anyway…I was in Austria for a solid two weeks! Here are some sights I enjoyed during my little sojourns in the Great Outdoors:
songs i listened to
brat the album by queen charlie xcx (city sewer slut summer!!)
the rise and fall of a midwest princess by chappell roan
way too much of the glee soundtrack…
take me to the river by lorde
aaron tveit and gavin creel singing take me or leave me (my friend and i were GIGGLING)
reliving 2010s classics such as ariana grande’s problem
books (and poems) i read
kudos by rachel cusk (gorgeous prose i saw parade in a bookstore and slavered over it)
three women by lisa taddeo (full review up on my ig)
the invisible man by h.g. wells (literally dreamt of being stalked by an invisible person last night, kind of a creepy book but in a makes-you-question-humanity-and-morals typa way)
50 pages of the odyssey (my copy of which got soaked by a leaky water bottle i am heartbroken)
a lot of mary jean chan
films and tv shows i watched
still on shameless!
miscellaneous moments
seeing my high school friends again after a long time. that certain flavour of inertia where their past and present selves are composited onto one another…
sniffing a really nice incense my partner got me from their trip
watching my dog bark while she sleeps. is she chasing rabbits in her dreams?
being in a different country and the weather being so comfy
missing asian food
walking so many galleries my feet hurt
june in review: a reminder on what i have to work on, my goals and how far i am away from them. motivation for the coming year to get what i need to do done. catching up with precious people in my life and realising how much i actually love my home city and the people there. a weird in between; should i stay or should i go?