Once again an "I Aten't Dead" update, only I haven't got the icon anymore, because it's been so long
As the subject line says, once again I try to at least update my journal. (I-it's the thought that counts, right...? ^^")
Stuff that might have changed in my life since the last time I updated, in bullet points:
- I moved back to my old home town. It was nice living somewhere else, but in the end, I missed being
near my family too much to stay away.
- I'm now the teacher of a 6th grade and pretty much all of my students are sweet, but have difficulties with social interaction, emotional control and learning. (Otherwise they wouldn't need a special needs teacher as their class teacher, of course.) Which makes school always interesting - and infinitely exhausting sometimes. Also, one of my student's family belongs to an Eastern European part of the mafiya. - Yes, really. v-v"
- I'm having a bit of a rough time right now, because my dog died fairly recently. She was twelve years old (not young, but not ancient either, for a Beagle) and it happened very quickly and unexpectedly. She was fine most of the summer and then she started breathing heavily and the vet discovered that she had cancer of the lymphatic glands (a subform of leukemia). A week later, she couldn't breathe or swallow properly anymore and we had to put her down. :(
- Other than that, though, I'm doing fairly OK: I'm enjoying the late summer - early autumn weather and my home-grown tomatoes, beans and zucchini...
- ... which kind of alludes to my interests, which have changed a bit over the last two years: I've discovered my love for gardening! (I built a tomato-house, all by myself! - Yes, I'm very proud of that. ;P) I'm still reading fanfiction (I don't think I'll ever stop that), but am not fannishly involved anymore. I miss it a bit, but to be quite honest - towards the end, especially the Arashi fandom got far too big and far too busy for me and I started feeling pressured into keeping up with news and fandom-love, which resulted in me basically leaving the fandom for good. It was a nice time, but in the end, it got too much for me, and I'm not really interested in keeping up with a big, active fandom like that anytime soon.
- I'd still like to start writing again, though! Perhaps I'll look for a challenge in the next months? I think that it would be quite a lot of fun to do one of those again. ^-^
- And, after this tl;dr: HOW ARE YOU DOING, MY LOVELY FRIENDSLIST?! I've recently seen
guingel update and I've also seen aatash update (hey you two, sorry for not having answered your posts yet, I've got them open in other tabs, I promise!), but I fear that most of my friendslist has moved on to greener fields (=tumblr and stuff). For those who're still on LJ, I'd love to hear how you're doing!
Stuff that might have changed in my life since the last time I updated, in bullet points:
- I moved back to my old home town. It was nice living somewhere else, but in the end, I missed being
near my family too much to stay away.
- I'm now the teacher of a 6th grade and pretty much all of my students are sweet, but have difficulties with social interaction, emotional control and learning. (Otherwise they wouldn't need a special needs teacher as their class teacher, of course.) Which makes school always interesting - and infinitely exhausting sometimes. Also, one of my student's family belongs to an Eastern European part of the mafiya. - Yes, really. v-v"
- I'm having a bit of a rough time right now, because my dog died fairly recently. She was twelve years old (not young, but not ancient either, for a Beagle) and it happened very quickly and unexpectedly. She was fine most of the summer and then she started breathing heavily and the vet discovered that she had cancer of the lymphatic glands (a subform of leukemia). A week later, she couldn't breathe or swallow properly anymore and we had to put her down. :(
- Other than that, though, I'm doing fairly OK: I'm enjoying the late summer - early autumn weather and my home-grown tomatoes, beans and zucchini...
- ... which kind of alludes to my interests, which have changed a bit over the last two years: I've discovered my love for gardening! (I built a tomato-house, all by myself! - Yes, I'm very proud of that. ;P) I'm still reading fanfiction (I don't think I'll ever stop that), but am not fannishly involved anymore. I miss it a bit, but to be quite honest - towards the end, especially the Arashi fandom got far too big and far too busy for me and I started feeling pressured into keeping up with news and fandom-love, which resulted in me basically leaving the fandom for good. It was a nice time, but in the end, it got too much for me, and I'm not really interested in keeping up with a big, active fandom like that anytime soon.
- I'd still like to start writing again, though! Perhaps I'll look for a challenge in the next months? I think that it would be quite a lot of fun to do one of those again. ^-^
- And, after this tl;dr: HOW ARE YOU DOING, MY LOVELY FRIENDSLIST?! I've recently seen
guingel update and I've also seen aatash update (hey you two, sorry for not having answered your posts yet, I've got them open in other tabs, I promise!), but I fear that most of my friendslist has moved on to greener fields (=tumblr and stuff). For those who're still on LJ, I'd love to hear how you're doing!