i won’t pass you by.

oh hi.

phil and i set up this blog a while ago, but i was kind of shy about writing in it. i have a livejournal, but apparently those aren’t hip enough anymore.

i guess, in this, i’ll just be writing what i’m feeling and experiencing on random days at various moments. i hope to keep it up as a kind of outlet for thoughts that are hopefully interesting to read. maybe i’ll even start writing creatively again.

to start:

i had serious activist burn out at the end of this semester. you (or i) always hear people talking about burn out, how activists get burnt out and drop out. i always thought, “i won’t let myself get burnt out!” apparently it happens a lot more easily than i realized. by the end of the semester i felt so overwhelmed and taken advantage of that i had relatively no interest in being active. i knew it wouldn’t last, but i needed a break. i finally feel like i’m starting to come out of it. so, it’s a big deal. i never want to get that overwhelmed again. a word of advice for activists: step up and actually do the things you volunteer for so that one person doesn’t get stuck picking up your slack. i don’t know how to help make that happen, but it’s gotta happen if i’m going to stay involved because i can’t keep being the person who picks up the slack. it isn’t fair.

wow. so. i didn’t know i was going to rant about that right now.

i’ll end this on a more posi note: