Hey there, This one is about aging, kind of. I was the youngest person in the room for so long, and it was more of a relief than a shock when that was no longer the case. I suppose I’m a cat who has worked through a few lives already, with enough scars that some don’t even have a story. At the very least, I am a Leo. I spent my twenties in academia—research awards, appropriately clashing patterns, teaching portfolios, the whole nine—and it all sort of came to an end when I was thirty. The afternoon I defended my dissertation, I sat in my car and sang Celine Dion at full volume for twenty minutes until I hyperventilated. One member of my committee was in an airplane because dates were never his strong suit. I was told I passed without revisions and spent the afternoon in a dissociative state, playing a computer game at a bar. And that was that.
message 19: another season
message 19: another season
message 19: another season
Hey there, This one is about aging, kind of. I was the youngest person in the room for so long, and it was more of a relief than a shock when that was no longer the case. I suppose I’m a cat who has worked through a few lives already, with enough scars that some don’t even have a story. At the very least, I am a Leo. I spent my twenties in academia—research awards, appropriately clashing patterns, teaching portfolios, the whole nine—and it all sort of came to an end when I was thirty. The afternoon I defended my dissertation, I sat in my car and sang Celine Dion at full volume for twenty minutes until I hyperventilated. One member of my committee was in an airplane because dates were never his strong suit. I was told I passed without revisions and spent the afternoon in a dissociative state, playing a computer game at a bar. And that was that.