PART 32: VIOLET

May 2021 , Sydney

All right, there has been quite a lengthy gap in between my last recording, which was on 2nd of January and this recording, which is on the 11th of May. So I'll try and really quickly recap what's been going on. So I've started school. I think I talked about that in my last recording. I started in February, I'm in my second term now. We finally got into the lab, which is fun. A lot of it was just like in class and now we've graduated to actually being in the lab and doing practice, which is really cool. I'm on my second term of Polish school as well. And that's been super cool. Obviously just like a passion project, but I'm trying to take it seriously because I do want to be, you know, quite proficient in it for the time on the distant horizon where I can go over there.

I turned 30 exactly a week ago. So I've arrived, I've made it. It was dicey at times. But I survived my entire 20s. I had a really beautiful, albeit, busy week. So this is probably the perfect time to record this because I'm kind of coming down from all the activity of this month as a whole, I guess. It was really lovely. My parents met my boyfriend's mom for the first time after having been together for two and a half years. I probably could have picked a less stressful time for it, but it all went well. The party was great.

I have had another break from work. I feel like I talk about having breaks from work more than I talk about being at work. But I'm sort of at the point where I've been away from work, I'm still seeing my regular on Fridays. My weekly regular, which is fantastic to have that guaranteed income. I think that's kind of why I'm a bit lazy with work because I know I have a safety net pending him, you know, unexpectedly dying, which touchwood, will not happen.

I've been trying not to push myself because I really am focused on school and building a future where I enter a different career and a different chapter of my life. So I've been at my Parlour maybe once every three weeks, once or twice every three weeks. So I've actually got no idea what's going on there. I don't know how busy it will be. When I go back on Thursday, hopefully it will be okay. I find when I am away for a while, I tend to get a lot of regulars and repeat clients booked me on the same day because they’ve sort of been, you know, waiting for me to come back. So, you know, I’ll smash out like five, six jobs, go home, come back in another three weeks. So, I don't have heaps to report on work for now.

Not really much else is going on. Life is pretty easy and pleasant. Yeah, focused a lot around just academia and friends and family. It's nice to, you know, be social and have a full life again. I feel like when I was recording last year, my life was just underscored by this complete nothingness that I kind of slapped a bandaid of drinking and substance use over but my sober streak is continuing. I feel a lot healthier. And yeah, I guess that's about it. We're ending on a positive note how pleasant.