I go chunky dunking!

Had one of the best nights I've had in a while on Friday night celebrating a couple of friends' recent marriage. The night culminated in us stripping down and jumping into the ocean. I could use more weekends like this one.

Hello! How's it going? What's new?

Absolutely nothing is new with me... still hella overworked doing that school/work/life grind. Got on full time at work while doing 4 courses (the minimum for full time is 3 courses at my school). Just writing research papers, lyrical essays, poetry, and short fiction like a madwoman over here while taking care of the dregs of society (not my opinion of course) and trying to have a social life and be able to stay home with my cats, netflix, and a bottle of wine, while staying caught upon a gazillion books, articles, stories, poems etc... of course. It ain't easy-- any rich folks on NN wanna take me in? I'm well behaved until you don't want me to be haha. Anyway, just like to check in around here every now and then, miss you all and your antics.

xoxox Jedi

How have you folks been doing? I have about a gazillion (okay, serious overstatement) PMs to catch up on. I'm truly sorry to the few that messaged me around the holidays... I have been meaning to write back but I've been hella overworked. I'm looking forward to the brief reprieve of reading break. I just wanted to say hi. I miss hanging out on NN and checking out sexy pics and stuff.

Xoxox jedi

Finally it is the most stressful time of year, ah, gotta love it. I'm just over half done all my big end of semester papers and projects. I'm nearly done my portfolio for my longform fiction class. I'm really proud of my project and I think I'm going to actually keep writing it. Basically I've plotted out an entire novel and wrote the first 2-3 chapters of it. I just have to finish writing the project outline, do a quick grammar edit, and then I can submit it. I'd really like to think of a working title but I'm completely stumped. Thought I would check out NN as a little break maybe not thinking about it for a bit would make something click but... nada. I don't NEED a working title, I'd just like to think of one... it would make it feel more complete, ya know?

Then my very last assignment of the semester is a 10 page research paper for my film and lit class. I'm really nervous to write this paper because I got really good feedback on my proposal... doesn't my professor know that I am a perfectionist and good feedback only sends me into a cycle of doubt and worry that my work will not meet expectations?! Seriously though, I am nervous about it but I have a solid three days plus the rest of today once I finish my portfolio to work on it.

Once this paper is done it's tattoo, x-mas decorations, and catching up on some good reads!

Anyway, that's the Jedi update, hope everyone is having a great December so far!

here are some hilarious fails at writing sex scenes in literature for your reading pleasure.

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Hello my lovely friends.

Since I've been back on NN more regularly this month I have realized that a lot of my older friends still call me by variations of part of my old username. It is nice to have that familiarity and nostalgia, however I need to ask my friends to please stop and to refer to me as Jedi only in public NN spaces. Also, if I have trusted you with a more specific location than Canada, please do not bring it up in status, video chat, etc.

My confidentiality on this site is really important to me. I do not want my job, or more importantly my safety, to be compromised when I use this site. I might just be being paranoid but this is what I need from my friends to feel comfortable and safe participating here. The reason that I am blogging this is that it is more than just a few people who still call me by my old name and I thought this would be an easier way than sending a PM to all of the folks that know me from before.

I hope you all understand

xoxo

It's mostly my own fault. I made fish tacos yesterday before work and didn't wash the cutting board that I cut the onions on. When I got home it was quite the awful smell but I had a party I was going to so I basically made myself a couple of caesars in a jug (super classy) and left the Worcestershire sauce on the counter and left again. Big mistake. I get home after the party. Still cannot stand the smell of the onion so I wash the few dishes in the sink and wipe the counter (but forget to put away the Worcestershire sauce) and go to bed and listen to My Favourite Murder until I fall asleep. Sometime in the night, one of my cats jumps on the counter and in complete asshole fashion knocks the Worcestershire sauce onto the ground. It is a glass container and explodes expelling a dark, smelly, liquid all over the floor.

So, I called my friend and talked to her on the phone for almost 2 hours, as one does when they do not want to see to their responsibilities, cleaned up the mess, made myself a tea and responded to some PM's on NN. Now I'm blogging a pointless blog before I shower and go for a walk on this beautiful fall day. Which is in itself another procrastination because really I should be working on a revision for my novel writing class and a draft for a paper for my academic writing class and an outline for a paper in my lit and film class. However, the walk is what some would call productive procrastination because really I need to get some fresh air and a bit of light exercise to help me focus. It's complex layers of procrastination so maybe the onion story wasn't so pointless after all.

Have a good weekend, Nudies! xoxo

Hello Nudies! I'm finally here 2 flights, including a 5 hour layover later. I arrived four hours ago found my way to my hostel, dropped off a couple of bags, and found a cafe. I can't officially check into the hostel for another 4 hours but I have some homework to do since i'm missing the first week of classes... how boring! May as well get it out of the way while i have some time in limbo and since i'm still feeling a little off from travelling. Just thought I would say hi to my favourite naked people xoxo

Today has been a productive day thus far, yay me! I've crossed 5 things off my to-do list and it's only 11am. I got a new job offer today and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it pays and extra $2.50 per hour. On the other hand it is for an organization that I have very mixed feelings about. It is a religious organization that provides essential services, like shelters, community kitchens, contracts for housing with corrections etc... it's the religious part that I'm not on the up and up with, but I was upfront and told them that I am not in any way, shape, or form religious and I still got the job offer so... I'm gonna roll with it if only for the money. I also have yet to tell them that I'm going out of the country for a week in Sept... I hope they aren't too displeased about that. I'm just getting kind of desperate to get out of my current job. I hate feeling stuck.

BUT I'm currently feeling more in control of my life than I have in a while. I guess that's how getting stuff done and not procrastinating makes you feel. Who knew?

Also, 5 days of work left until I head east to see my fam for 9 days. I'm looking forward to some time off. In case I was too subtle about it up there, I'm starting to despise my job. Basically I took a promotion that I didn't really want so that I could earn an extra two bucks and I wish I hadn't because it took any and all joy out of my job- yay! LOL.

Anyway this blog is more scattered than my brain, a difficult feat, so I will say adieu for now!

Time management and focus are not things that I excel at. I am easily distracted, easily overwhelmed with tasks, and terrible at multitasking. I often have about 30 tabs open in multiple web browsers- job applications, scholarship applications, travel research, interesting articles, social media, not to mention my endless crafting and writing projects that are on my mind.... But I never give myself enough time to focus on one thing and actually finish something.

In university, one of my professors passed on a tip for studying that has actually been very useful for me in my everyday life. Setting a timer and focusing on ONE thing for even just ten minutes at a time. I don't know why having the timer actually helps me, just like I need a list to help me decide what I'm actually going to focus on for the day, but it makes all the difference. I need more "quiet" in my life. Or rather to focus on more tasks that require my attention like reading, crocheting, yoga, doing stuff with my hands etc... because I get so lost in all the things that I do that only require half my attention, if that makes sense at all to anyone but me lol. I guess a better way of saying it is that I need more mindfulness in my life. I gotta stop my brain from exploding somehow haha.