Man oh man has it been a while. The semester's work picked up and I got a little overwhelmed. I still am. I have 2 finals and a final paper all happening in the next four days. It's a lot to handle, but I think it'll be alright. As always, a lot has managed to change since I've lasted written here. I suppose I should go in chronological order to keep it as streamlined as possible.
Firstly, Leo joined my family for Thanksgiving this year. His own family is very on edge with the COVID situation and wouldn't allow him in their house without taking a ridiculous number of "precautions". They required him to take a COVID test but didn't tell him they required it until only a couple days prior to Thanksgiving, so he wouldn't have gotten his results in time. He advised them that the rapid tests were extremely unreliable and he wouldn't waste time taking one, but they didn't seem to care. So instead of dealing with their nonsense my mom invited him to come with us to my aunt's house for our usual small gathering. We all drank and played video games and ate a ton of food. It was the most fun I had had in a while. Since he lives further away now out of state we don't see each other super often, so it's nice when our schedules finally match up. It also sounds like he'll be coming for Christmas Eve at my house as well. We all had fun last time during Thanksgiving so I'm anticipating the same. He and I have always gotten along well and have fun, so I'm looking forward to it. It'll be my first day off after work ends. I'll get to that now I suppose.
While everything was going on with school and work and my generally busy schedule, I had to look for what's called a fellowship site for my graduate degree. We each need to be practicing in our field while being supervised in order to gain "supervision hours". Once we complete 1,500 hours we qualify for state licensing for our degree so we can ultimately become board certified. This has been quite the task and many people in my cohort had problems finding sites that worked for them. After some issues with my paperwork on the school's end, I was able to land a few interviews. One of those interviews apparently went exceedingly well. I got an offer for a full time paid position. I won't get into much detail for privacy reasons, but I'll be working out of a school that functions as part of a typical academic year. That means I get summers off, and as a salaried employee I'll still get paid. The concept of having ~6 weeks paid time off from work is still sinking in with me. Plus we abide by the normal winter and spring breaks along with religious holidays. All together it seems like an amazing job. I'm salaried, accrue my required hours, have off during the summers, have fairly often 3-day weekends, don't have to commute too far, and have access to decent health benefits. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect job. Because of this new job, I decided to leave both of my research labs as well as my normal office job. I no longer need the labs for my resume (I already have 2 1/2 years of experience there) and I don't need the pay from my office job. People were very sad when I informed them I'd be leaving my jobs, but they were happy I was moving on to something bigger and better. I'll miss one coworker in particular named Vince. I'm not sure if I've mentioned him in the past. He and I have bonded over the last year of working together at my office job. We have a lot in common and talk constantly during the day. He's very much gay and is in a happy and healthy relationship, so it's purely platonic. But I will miss him a lot. We talk all day at work and it sucks we won't have that anymore. We still text almost daily when we aren't working together, but it'll still be an adjust for us both not talking for 7-8hrs a day consistently. We help keep each other sane. But he's very happy for me and urged me to leave as soon as possible. He wants me to go far and achieve all my goals, and I feel the same about him. The office job itself is just alright, but I've definitely met some good people there. So I guess that's the biggest news - I have a new job soon. I start in a few weeks just after New Year's so hopefully 2021 will be a fresh new start for me. 2020 hasn't been great by any means, but it wasn't the worst for me personally. It had it's ups and downs, but the ups have been very up - like finally starting graduate school, paying off my car, and now scoring a seemingly perfect job. We'll see what happens, but I'm looking forward to moving onwards and upwards to infinity and beyond.
I'm also turning 25 in a matter of weeks, so that's also a thing.
I'm gonna do something a little different this time with music. This is going to be a themed list. You may or may not already know this, but I am a huge anime fan. I've watched many many anime in my time, but unfortunately don't have much time for it anymore given my busy schedule. Below I'm going to link some of my favorite opening/ending songs from anime I've seen and highly recommend. Don't worry, they're not all in Japanese. They include German, English, Russian, and Latin as well. Some are more mainstream and popular, but others you may not know. This time pay attention to the videos that accompany the music. They're my favorites not just for the music value but also for the artistry behind it as a whole. I know it's different than what I've been doing, but I've recently been vibing a lot with them so I figured I would share a little and maybe spread some anime appreciation. I linked more than I normally do, but they're all pretty short so just sit back and enjoy.
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