Snippets and Stories

Helloooo and bienvenidos!

So, I still can't really believe I'm going to do this. A blog? I'm pretty terrible at posting updates on social media as it is, aaaand this is kind of giving me college flashbacks. Create a blog post. Respond to at least two other classmates. Before midnight. Or else.

Ha! That was definitely a thing. But this? This is going to be different. This is a commitment to my creative self. So once again...welcome to my imagination!

I'll be using this to post snippets (hence the name) of conversations I hear or anything else that might inspire a story or poem. A dream journal, perhaps? I still have some awesome dreams and some would make for a fun read.

It'll also serve to post project updates as well as to document my creative growth. I've been ignoring it for waaaay too long. As a science major, my creative spark was going haywire because there weren't very many outlets in the curriculum. Were Zoology lectures exciting? Heck yes. Don't get me started on our field trips. But did they give you opportunities to write poems about the demise of a snail at the hands (uhhh...flagellum?) of a parasite? No.

I had to do that in the margins. And that made for some messy lecture notes. There was no room for flowery writing in field journals either. I put all of that on the back burner so that I didn't get too distracted during class. And then came grad school, adulting, teaching and tiredness--and where did the time go?

I mean, I'm easily distracted and don't quite have the best time management, but teaching is a whole other beast. If you ask me, there should be at least two teachers per (middle school) classroom. One to do all of the classroom management and actual teaching, the other to help with grading, phone calls, and meetings. And both should lesson plan together.

But I digress.

You know that saying, if you can't find the time, then make the time? I made time! I saved up for a whole year, and applied for a leave of absence. Wooo!

Do I miss my students? Yes. Do I enjoy working on creative endeavors for hours a day and honing my skills in hobbies that I had ignored for ages? ABSOLUTELY.

There are a few time-sensitive, bothersome uncertainties (will I run out of funds? will I return to the classroom?) but I think I've bought myself enough time to deal with them later.

This is the year, dear readers, that I become the butt-kicking, sword-wielding, sciencey, creative minstrel-author I have always wanted to be.

So here's to 2023: may it be the the year of fun and fulfillment!

Cheers!