Life begins at...whenever you want it to, ffs.

[rhivolution]

Delightfully and a touch maudlin-reflective today, as I stare at 30 and 30 stares back at me. I need to remind myself that I have done things and I am good and Julia Child didn't even know how to cook until she was 40.

I've come out of my 20s with the following good things:
- a supportive and sweet life partner who loves me for being my messed up liminal geeky social justicey self, and an in-law family that are dear. and a home in a country that I am conflicted but generally happy with.
- an okay, if occasionally awkward, relationship with my family.
- two degrees that I enjoyed getting, and with comparatively limited debt.
- a job that, while not in my ideal career, is worthwhile, allows me to exercise critical thinking, while working with good people and being decently compensated.
- loads of not-necessarily-useful-but-awesome knowledge.
- not-great but acceptable health.
- not loads of creative work, but still stuff I am proud of (among these: dissertation! vids! RP which is a goddamn creative work!).
- brilliant creative friends scattered worldwide like yourselves.


There are things I want to do at thirty, though--blog a lot more, read a lot more, write a lot more, vid a lot more. I NEED ACCOUNTABILITY. I need to figure out how to sort this--suggestions welcome.

Also:
- If you follow me on Twitter, I've posted quotes and music videos from the #1s of the day, like the true recent history geek that I am.
- Shout if you have a 3DS and would like to be friends omg. matt got me pokemonz let me show you them...once I have actually started playing.

Comments

[frogmajick]

I'm on the flipside of thirty with the big 4-0 coming up on Black Friday. Accountability comes when you least expect it, if it comes at all. This past decade has been a blur and don't feel any more prepared for 40 than I was for 30.

So here's to the happiest of birthdays, regardless of the number. Much love <3

[rhivolution]

Thank you so very much, babe.