on social sports
“Shh,” I say to her, “it’s okay. This is really stupid and I’m pretty sure it’s mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself. In four years, you’ll never have to do this again and in about 16 years, you’ll actually kind of enjoy running.”
me and my seemingly never ending quarter life crisis
I’m here to let you know that I haven’t figured it out yet and I don’t know if I’ll be able to figure it out in the foreseeable future. I’m trying to be okay with it, but truthfully it is very difficult.
things look a little different around here…
I’ve made my peace with not knowing all of the answers – I will simply allow myself to be. In the famous words of wrinkly space priest Yoda to burgeoning Jedi Luke Skywalker: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
why I left
I had nightmares about work: vivid movies wherein my students told me how much they hated me.
funemployment: on being unemployed
It was never that I wasn’t able to pick up the pieces while I was struggling, but I did already have my hands quite full and that made for slow work.
my life, as told by Paul Kelly
“Hey, I’m Taylor and I like Paul Kelly. No, like really, really like Paul Kelly.”
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Oh, hello sticky beak!
It’s me, Taylor, I write all the stuff here. I’m an unemployed Masters of Creative Writing student. I enjoy crafts, reading weird books and the feeling of the sun on my skin. I love The Matildas, my husband, our cat and dog, and Paul Kelly (although probably not in that exact order).
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thoughts from the first year 