But it isn’t over.

Yesterday I finished the presentations I had to do and I think both of them went well. I ended up just relaxing for the rest of the day, I was pretty mentally exhausted after sitting through about four hours of presentations. I’ll probably get my marks back on those when the semester closes.

All that’s left for the semester is a reflection piece, a final piece and a set of critique markings. The second critique round was a bit of a nightmare and so I’m hoping the last one will be okay, especially because I’ll have double the critiques to write up and review.

I’m not hopeful about my marks for one of the units because it was a trainwreck (not my work, the organisation of it) and judging by the pretty mediocre mark I got back on the first assignment (where I indeed hit everything they asked for on the task page (because they didn’t give us an actual task sheet)) they’re not taking the situation or lack of communication into account when they mark them. My group partner and I are pretty frustrated about it. I don’t know what to expect for my marks for the writing project but I’m hoping for good marks in my last unit because I care the most about it.

Not mentioning what the units are called is pretty vague and it probably makes for a confusing read but I do it because I’m not sure how much to reveal on this platform, but I guess I’m not being as honest as I’d like to be by hiding the details of it. So, here’s a quick breakdown of what I just said:

• KYB302 Creative Practice – I’m over the chaos of it
• KWB306 Creative Project – Not sure about how I feel about it, it’s made reading a labour
• KKB192 Indigenous Australian Politics – I strived to do well

I’ve been planning to write a piece about the Indigenous Knowledges Minor (of which KKB192 is part of) but life has been a bit crazy. If I put the goal here in this post, however, I might get myself into gear and do it. I think most of my hesitation is from not knowing how I want to design the post, because parts of it will probably become rants but I want it to be taken seriously so I’ll have to vent and then re-order it or vent, write, vent, write etc.

On the other side of things, I’ve been going through a moment of ‘self-discovery’. But it’ s not quite the general kind of self-discovery but more like I’m admitting to and embracing parts of myself that I hid because I felt I would be judged by those around me, especially the people I care about. It’s liberating to embrace parts of yourself though, especially when they make up part of your identity. For me, it concerns my beliefs and sexuality. More clarifying and in-depth posts on those topics will probably go onto my other blog though, but I just thought I would like to mention that despite this being a difficult time and it feeling like, for a moment or two, I was further away from my goals of graduating and my career goals than at the start of the year, I’m doing well and finding that there have been some benefits. Not to Covid19 but to the isolation part.

Now it’s time to focus on regular writing and the other parts of my life like my hobbies and my extra studies. I’ve picked up learning Japanese again and though it’s a bit disheartening that I’m no longer at where I used to be, I was actually impressed with how far I made it last time and that’s really motivated me to get back to that point and keep going with it. I also want to revive my garden, start my diorama project and get back on track with my DMing. There’s probably also a stack of things somewhere else that I’ve forgotten about, but hopefully I’ll get to them.

I kind of don’t like this new editor. I feel like it’s made things way too complicated. And there’s something wrong with the media library at the moment that I can’t find a fix for (it’s mostly around adding and editing media). Eventually, I’ll probably get used to it… and then it’ll get updated and I’ll be confused again. The problem might also lie more with the desktop version of WordPress. I’ll figure it out, at some point. This post took way too long to create because of it.

Bring on the end of semester!