04/25/2026

Graduation

I defended my thesis on April 3rd and passed. I've made the final edits to my thesis and made the corrections to the formatting for the grad school. It'll be accepted soon and then I'm done. I'll have a masters degree in geology. I did it. I've got a graduate degree. From there, I've got two papers in review and one published related to coal geochemistry. I have several related to work being submitted and I alsohave to convert my thesis. I think I could really be looking at a promotion.

I also had a panic attack because I thought I poisoned myself in the lab. This led to some deep thinking since I thought I was going to die. I've decided instead of pursuing the geology PhD, I want to go for the creative writing MFA through my job. That means I have the rest of this year to write and get stuff published before the end of the year. Things have been chaotic but I want to trim my life down to UU on sundays, pole dance, and writing. That will make me happy. I got a story accepted for publication as well by an antifascist journal!

Finally, I've been playing a lot of Elder Scrolls. I beat daggerfall, but currently I'm doing a (heavily modded) Skyrim playthrough. I'm playing a high elf who worships Meridia, Azura, and Noctural. She's basically from a sect of high elves who settled in Blackmarsh as part of the elves who went to Morrowind. She wanted to be an alchemist but because her family was dissidents against the Thalmor, she was incarcerated and brutalized by them. Because of that, she's set out to become stronger so she can get her revenge on the altmer-supremacist Thalmor. She's accidentally become a werewolf by tasting shapeshifter blood while doing alchemy and is looking for a way to save her soul from Hircine. She weres second era Altmer armor that is a family heirloom.

Also, I have a bottom surgery date of August 12th now!