"2024 Will Be My Year"
October 11th 2024
so like... it's funny. very often people say "[x] will be my year" as one year is coming to a close-- and then they get beat down by the next year hard within the first month. thankfully i did not say that shit in 2023! and quite honestly, this year has been awesome.
FOR THIS blog post since i kind of abandoned this site for a hot second (the entire year) i wanted to just... talk about the year? it's been pretty fun, so why not!
one must imagine sisyphus happier than a college student
i got into college for graphic design in 2019, right out of high school. and it was quite honestly a pretty shitty experience! especially since in 2020 certain worldwide calamity events made it even worse than i first expected, including it getting so bad that i quit college for a bit.
i only really returned to finish that whole deal in the second semester of 2023, and surprisingly (/s) now that i wasn't a freshly turned adult who was extremely unstable, it went a lot better. it was still stressful but i had the mental stability and maturity to just be able to handle myself better.
and then 2024 started and i didn't actually have any classes left to do for the first semester, so instead i wound up getting an invitation from one of my professors to be an assistant for one of her classes. which i didn't hesitate at all to accept because fun fact i really want to be a teacher in the future.
it was actually a pretty solid semester of helping with classes and getting to know some of the students, i truly did have a lot of fun with that (i even got to reconnect with former classmates from 2019) sooo... that was cool! all that did get cut a short a little bit earlier because of something else i got to do...
but i'1l get to that later! after the first semester of 2024, i now have Actual Classes again for the second semester (but only two) and it's been going pretty smoothly. mostly because i already kind of know everything that's being teached in those two classes and i just kind of get to have a free ego boost by talking about what i know. sorry. it is exactly what i needed right before i graduate.
stuff that's cooler than college
aside from finally being out of the college trenches when this year ends, i also got to do a lot more fun things related to personal interests. one of the highlights of this year for me was joining a semi-public minecraft server on impulse and accidentally getting myself an entire new group of friends i enjoy to talk to.
i had a big reawakening of my interest in minecraft youtube last year, and all of that kind of ended up leading me into following a few blogs on tumblr for the QSMP. (because i fell into an obsession with that after brazilian creators were added) and from that i caught wind of a semi-public server for the tumblr qsmp community...
keep in mind, i didn't Post about QSMP much at all. nor did i even really indicate anywhere that i cared about it a lot? there were maybe a few reblogs on my main tumblr related to it, and despite it all i still messaged the owner of the server if i could join their discord. and they said yea!
from there i just kind roamed around lost for the first few days in qblrsmp (narrowly avoiding embarrassing deaths a few times) just kind of wondering if i would even care about the server That much. well the universe proved to me that i Would very quickly, cuz in one of my wandering sessions i stumbled upon a little village by the snow and two players chatting with each other.
i hopped into that conversation kind of shamelessly but it worked out because within a few minutes they asked if i wanted to live nearby! and i said yea sure! now i was part of tonmy's family village! and from there i just kind of starting meeting more and more people involved with that corner of the server.
my qblr character (sunny) and tonmy the egg.
the server reached its end earlier in august, but i still actively talk to a lot of people i met in it, and i'm actually so happy to have met a lot of new and fun people on complete chance. we even have a d&d campaign now. :D
an old screenshot of my qblr house while it was being built.
honestly, this post is starting to get extremely long. which is ok because even though i have More to talk about in relation to this year, i'd actually like to dedicate an entire post to some of that. so i guess this post is good enough like this!! well.