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good news

Like a rare blood disorder. No, wait, stop quoting the Mountain Goats and tell your good news!

Okay.

I complain a fair bit on Tumblr, but today I have happy things to say!

As is probably obvious if you’ve seen my posts over the last few weeks (or months), things at my job were not going so well¹ and I quit at the end of last year.

I did so having applied to go to university and study photography this year, although I didn’t get an early offer in November so I wouldn’t know for sure until mid-January or even early February if I would actually just be blobbing around wondering what on earth to do with myself.

Last week I realised that first-round offers came out on January 16th instead of some nebulous “in the future” time that I didn’t have to think about just yet, so I spent a few days in a state of horrible uncertainty (mixed with near-certainty that I wouldn’t get in, thanks pessimism).

But then the offers were released and I had an offer for the one course I want to do! Enrolment is next Tuesday and I’m happily looking at subject descriptions and public transport options and trying to get up the nerve to deal with Centrelink and apply for Austudy.

My plan is to major in photography, but also do the minor sequence in professional and creative writing that the degree offers, and cram in as many extra writing/critical theory/artwank subjects as I can.

So I guess this is the start of a new phase, in which I actually have some idea of what I want to do with my life and make every effort to make it happen.