Maybe it's a little audacious on my part to assume that anyone would be interested in reading about various personal updates, but I always find that blogging on this site helps me clear up the clutter in my brain whenever it happens to build up. Plus it's just plain good writing practice, and there's always a couple readers and friends who may surprise me. I'll warn you though that I'm somewhat of a boring person, and I don't expect anyone to take a real fascination in anything that ever happens to me. In fact, most of the updates I might write about in this post aren't really updates at all so much as a few thoughts that have flown through my head, thoughts that need to be written so that they'll finally leave me alone. 

One of the first things I want to talk about is how I can feel myself slowly drifting away from the Kpop fandom. Don't get me wrong, I still love these idols to death and I thoroughly enjoy the music and their promotions as well as their personalities and antics. But my interests are shifting as my attention keeps diverting towards other things like... my education, my jobs, my personal life, all things that I used to gently neglect when I was too absorbed in the Kpop fandom. But ever since I've dedicated myself to being more present and more careful with those things, Kpop, and its old role in my life, is starting to steadily decrease in importance to me. Of course, this isn't to say that I don't like Kpop anymore, because I still do, and very much so. It's just dropped down a level or two on my ranking of priorities. That being said, I'm having major writer's block when it comes to Kpop fanfiction nowadays. And I feel incredibly guilty because I've already started another long story and I was so dedicated to it and excited about it. But then real life got i the way, took my attention away from it, and now I'm finding it difficult to get back into it. I know it's been a long time, and I'm really sorry. In a way, I feel like I've plateued in my writing, and I'm struggling to get better and not stay complacent about where my skill level is. Honestly, I just feel like taking my writing in a new direction. 

As for other random updates: my parents are goign through a bit of rough patch in their marriage right now after some old news suddenly resurfaced again. But that's not something I really want to discuss on here. Just be assured that I'm handling it well, and so are my parents. School has been going well, only one week in and I'm settling in nicely. I finally have a class with my friends in it, and it's making the whole transition from freshman year to sophomore year that much easier. As I mentioned on twitter some time ago, too, one of my goals for this year is to get a study abroad scholarship to Italy. I haven't really made much progress on it however. But the year is only just beginning and I still have a lot of time to make good on that goal. 

Work has been fine, too. I've just gotten extended hours, though, since I've moved up in seniority and they want me at the store longer to fill in for some people who decided to take some last-minute vacations before their kids get back in school. In a previous post, I mentioned a guy named Seth on whom I have a bit of crush. If you're curious, don't be; there've been no significant developments to report, aside from the fact that he and another co-worker have decided on a nickname for me: E.T. Yeah, they're my initials, but also it's because there was this one time I brought Reese's Pieces to work to eat during break and they were reminded of the E.T. movie. My other co-worker thinks it's a good way to remember me, my name, and my face since he never could distinguish between me and another co-worker, Sabrina, because we're both short, Asian women, except Sabrina is almost twenty years older than me. Not sure how I feel about being mistaken for a forty year old woman. 

Okay, enough writing for now. It's almost time for my next class. Thanks for reading!