chapter two ─── life update

november 2023 edition

𝕳iya guys,

So, I have been super absent for the past few months and I thought I'd let you know why because I probably should have put a heads up on my page. I haven't meant to do a hiatus, but it's just sort of happened.

First of all, your girl has graduated. I passed all my final exams, my dissertation was marked and did well and I have passed my undergraduate course. I am super thrilled, I had a really great graduation ceremony with my family and was super lucky to have that. With this being the case, I am also lucky enough to be able to continue my studies to a postgraduate level as I am now a Masters Student. I am doing a taught masters which I started last month and I'm really enjoying it but it is a lot of work, which I didn't quite realise when I started in October, so I've been spending a lot of time doing extra reading and prepping for assignments.

With this, I am also applying for a veterinary medicine degree because I'm slightly allergic to getting a job. This has taken up a fair bit of my time, applications have just gone in and I'm doing my final supplementary assignment at the moment, though I have some other stuff to do with it later on in December and January. I'm super excited about this, and am really looking forward to the opportunity if I get in, but it's a big if. Fingers crossed for the moment.

Other than that, the other thing that has been taking up a lot of my time is the volleyball club that I am a part of with the uni. I'm the Wellbeing Officer in the club and unfortunately, due to certain members of the club, my wellbeing has taken a massive hit over the past four weeks and I'm not doing so well. When my wellbeing is trash, I also find that I can't write or don't write as well, which is another reason I haven't been writing at the moment. I am back at home with my family and dog for a week and it took me two days to kind of get around to working up the nerve to write on Wattpad, but I'm hoping that I can restore my mental health a bit more and get back into writing. I am still trying to work out what to do with the club, but it's not been great so far.

The final thing that's happened is that I sort of fell out of love with writing and with some of the fandoms that I write for. I'm slowly falling back in love with it, but it might take me a while to get around to certain books and that's just because sometimes I don't like where things are going or what plot I decided to take. I am sorry about that, but I hope to be back to full strength soon to continue writing.

What else happened this summer? I turned 21, which was great fun to celebrate with my family and friends, and I went on holiday to Lake Como and saw the Star Wars villa and also got really into Formula 1, if you couldn't tell from the Charles Leclerc icon at the moment (I'm thinking it might change to Kimi Raikkonen soon). I saw Hozier in concert, which was a blessed experience, and saw ABBA for my mum's birthday in London. I've moved into a new house at uni with people that I've never met before, which was definitely an experience, but it's turned out for the best and I now live with 2 cats, a kitten, 2 rats and a tortoise. 

In other words, it's all been a bit mad for the past five months, but I'm hoping to be back a bit more and at least get you updates once a week. I'm not sure in what yet, but I'm hopeful that it'll be the case.

Thanks for sticking with me and sending you lots of love,

li xx