I’m marking a very bittersweet anniversary in RCagz-land today. It’s officially been a year since my solo trip to NYC, which – yes – I am still banging on about and will continue to bang on about for the rest of my life thank you. You can check out my travel series from my trip here but I’ve also been going through some of my old snaps for my travel scrapbook (yeah that’s a thing I’m finally getting round to!) and thought I’d share some long forgotten photos from my time there.
Soundtrack: Ordinary Day: Vanessa Carlton
Is it bad I can’t really remember what actually happened this month?
I feel like I did a lot this May but that I also basically did nothing whatsoever as well. I suppose after a birthday month I tend to retreat back into my shell a bit – both physically (hello weekend duvet days!) and mentally (the introvert in me basically goes ’NOPE you’re staying and watching Netflix today). It probably didn’t help that I was basically recovering from the worst cold ever coming off the back of my birthday and my brain kinda just went into work/home routine mode for a few weeks.
Despite the absolute boring-ness of my own life, I feel like a lot has happened in terms of the outside world (Elections and Eurovision…tom-ato tom-A-to, am I right?) and the ‘fandom/internet world’ (BEA, BookCon, and Bad Blood, Oh My!). I also went to MCM Comic Con, which was so awesome and so exhausting, but conventions always manage to reignite my love of everything unashamedly nerdy. Also In slightly less exciting news, I’ve been totally engrossed in a brand new writing project (you can follow my brain ramblings concerning that on The Unabridged Writer) and have gotten back into writing bits and pieces for Feminist In Training too (I have one or two posts queued up so keep your eyes peeled, I wrote a piece about the new Supergirl TV show yesterday).
Back in the real world, after speaking to a few friends lately I’ve definitely got ideas for exciting plans, so I feel I need to make June the month to get those in place and happening. Aside from that I’m trying to brace myself for what could be the most depressing anniversary ever *cough* it’s been a year since I was in NYC – I CRY *cough*, but I’m also trying to keep optimistic. We’re on the cusp of Summer and as it’s my first trying to navigate this weird ol’ world of graduate/adult life. I wanna try and make it a good one. There’s definitely a promise of more conventions, meet ups, and hey, ROME in August…so yeah, silver lining after a bit of a ‘meh’ kinda May. *does happy dance*
p.s. sorry for this super ramble-y post, sometimes you just gotta word vomit a blog post now and then and hope for the best I guess? Congrats for making it through this if you have *hugs*
R.xoxo
GUYS. I seem to be on a bit of a roll with post at the moment :) the lovely people at Independent Fashion Bloggers have featured my absolutely self-indulgent post on Taylor’s Bad Blood music video style in their latest edition of Links A La Mode!! Be sure to check out the rest of the posts too, I’m definitely in good company this week
– R Xx
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