revivals and reintroductions

it's been a long time since i've made a blog post of any kind. i know everyone who read these posts is either related to me or friends with me, so i know this is kind of redundant, but if my great-grandchildren are for some reason going through all of my blogs and wondering what the hell is going on in my life at this time. i want them to know!! this is for you kiddies

i am now seventeen years old, nearly eighteen (in a month)! i live in kansas city and i'm in my senior year of high school. i'm terrified of the future even though i have faith that it will all be okay. right now i'm probably going to go to cottey college, a little all-women's college down in a little town called nevada, missouri. i want to be a docent in a history museum and teach people about history someday. i love bright, obnoxious colors, and i think eventually i want my presentation to get to the point that when i'm walking around town, people are tempted to ask if i need directions back to the circus or if i'm just a big fan. 

also, we're practically smack-dab in the middle of a global pandemic. there's a lot i could go into but i'm sure that by your time, potential great-grandchildren, there will be plenty of history books (or tablets, or brain-chips, or whatever) that you can read. i'm talking about me right now!! this is my blog!!! 

anyways. i'm doing virtual school because in-person school is just too weird for me. i understand and i appreciate all of the work that the school administration is doing to make sure students stay safe and healthy but it just feels WEIRD. class sizes are teeny tiny, lunch is like prison, and by the time i would get into class on thursday or friday i would have already completed the work that we needed to have done. i love my teachers, don't get me wrong, and i know they needed to have there be nearly no differences in their teaching. in-person students cannot have advantages over virtual students. 

i think this will be good for me, though. i really really need to learn some self-discipline and i think that might require a baptism by fire. and since i know my parents will probably read this: i promise i will do my work. i promise! i will. today was just an off-day, i did really really good yesterday. that's true, folks, by the way! 

i really want to get back into the practice of blogging again. i think last time i picked blogging up, last spring, i thought i needed to wait for some Main Events in my life to write my thoughts about. that just wasn't true! if i really want this to be an accurate time capsule, i want to make this a record of how i'm doing and how i'm feeling and what i like and what i love. maybe some things i hate! probably not, but maybe!

well, that's me. i'll talk to you guys later, maybe about my current obsession with taylor swift or about some of my new favorite tv shows. thanks for reading :)