val. 23 yo bi italian. what it says on the tin + ramblings about life and grad school
Intro Post: Hi!
i should start actually using this at some point, so: intro post! yayy!!
i guess the about already covers the basics, so to start i'll just say: I GOT INTO GRAD SCHOOL!!! I ACTUALLY GOT IN!! THERE WAS A TEST AND EVERYTHING AND I WAS CONVINCED I BLEW IT BUT I DIDN'T AND THAT'S ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME!!!!
SO, you might have gathered, i'm really excited about this! i'm moving in about a couple of weeks and i might talk a little about that, but mostly i want to use this space to document the next two years of my life (and hopefully beyond, we'll see). there are so many things i want to do and learn, so many places i never visited before as an undergraduate because... inertia, i guess, or shyness or uncertainity, and i don't want to be that person anymore. i'll always be the type to lay in my room with my laptop and a latte (hence the community title), but i want to do more too. i want to visit museums, and go to the theatre, and walk the lenght of a city to find all its hidden corners, and take day trips to bologna or florence or venice, and go out drinking and dancing with my friends (because we all need that at some point). it's not that i didn't want to do these things before (and god knows i've had some major hangovers in my life), but i feel like i was.. procrastinating on my life, in a way. "later", i'd day, or "someday", and then it was graduation day and it had still never happened. somehow, i'd been going to university and living on my own for three years, i'd spent six months in england and then six in china, and it felt like i hadn't fully experienced any of it.
it sucked, to be honest, and i don't want to feel that disappointed in myself ever again, hence this promise to myself: that i will do the things i want to do, budget willing, and my life will be fuller for it. and i'll tell you all about it on here!
so, to finish, i guess i'll tell you what a few of those things are so you know what i'll talk about at some point: read more original fiction (esp classics and queer lit); go see at least a couple of plays per semester; join my university's chinese and japanese theatre clubs (which i already did last year, but this time i want to be more involved in the actual shows); apply for another semester abroad (i think china again, so! look forward to that next year!), take those sunday trips to beautiful ancient cities i've never been; learn to ride a bike!! (i know!! i was a contrary little shit of a five year old leave me alone!!!) so i can get around the city more easily; study more! practise! raise my english and chinese and translation skills!; and most importantly, enjoy myself.
ok, that's all folks (all three of you)! bye <3




CONGRATS ON GRAD SCHOOL!!!! I totally get how you feel, I kind of feel the same way about my own college experience/foray into adulthood...