september musings

[graveexcitement]

the month's nearly over, which is wild. also scary cause it means my mid-semester projects and essays are coming due real quick (two different classes have an essay or a project due in like two weeks, except a decent amount of progress has to be done by next week for presentation & workshopping reasons). eep. i'll be okay, i think. the promise of actually graduating in December is a godsend.

i got my driver's license! it's rewarding, being able to drive myself places, and having the freedom to go where i choose, when i choose. i always felt a little embarrassed asking my parents to drive me somewhere just for me -- like, not for school, or to see friends, but just something i personally wanted to go do. and now i can do it! drove down to the library on Saturday :3

my partner and my metamour visited for a bit over a week (got my license just in time to be able to drive them places!), and it was a lot of fun! i do kinda wish we'd managed to make it happen during the summer, but on the other hand, at least when i was busy with school they were able to entertain each other xD

Saturday night i somehow managed to give myself a crick in the neck (i don't remember how i managed it; i was very high) and it's been hurting for the last two days -- especially today in class. i think this is mostly because when i'm on my phone, or on the computer, reading or browsing tumblr or playing games, whatever, i focus enough on that activity that my body is easier to ignore. but i can't do that kind of focus for audio inputs, including important school things like "lecture" and "class discussion," so i have to pay attention more broadly — which means processing both peoples’ words and my physical body’s sensations.

hope this shit eases up soon :/ ice packs do help, and painkillers work for a while (they're working now, in fact.)

on a more positive note, as of this month i'm starting to grow peach fuzz 🥰

hope y'all have also had a good September!

Comments

[sabcatt]

congrats on the face hair! it might be too late for this but i usually find that massaging my neck (with lotion to made it less "rubbing my skin off" and more "moving pressure smoothly back and forth") helps cricks a LOT but that's bc mine are always a weird muscle thing, which may not be the case for u. my september has been.... sure something. lots of adjustment. but good, ultimately, i think.

[graveexcitement]

i might have to try the lotion thing next time, though whenever i massaged my neck it seemed to have like a 60% chance of making it feel worse lol. but it's getting better now, at this point it only feels sore if i like, sit with bad posture for a bit, lol.

glad your september has been ultimately good!