Life Update #4 | I'm Judging You | 2017 Goals

Hey!

It’s 2017 and it is a new year and it has brought me to my attention that I have not been posting on here in like a minute.

Seriously, need to do this on a more regular basis.

I guess I can do a Life Update thing and just keep you posted on certain things that are going on. It’s going to be a stream of conscious thing so I am going to do some bullet points to attempt to have it be more organized.

• December happened. Don’t really celebrate the holidays but I was off for two and a half weeks.

• I started working again! It’s not fast food this time and I actually enjoy my job. I work with the local school district and the elementary school kids are just so adorable. I tend to have more patience with the younger kids… I definitely think it’s because they are so tiny. 100% believe that is the case.

• I am going to start nursing school soon in the next couple of weeks. I’m just so happy to be back in school, I haven’t been doing any sort of formal education in over six months so I’m really glad to be back in the swing of things.

I guess what I can tell you that I’ve been up to, is that I made ONE New Year’s Resolution.

NOW, I really dislike it despise it when people say resolutions are just not worth it and full of crap. It really isn’t. Everyone should have a personal goal that they would want to achieve and the thing is, you don’t have to necessarily fulfill that goal in that same year. It can be a life goal. A ten-year goal. A five-year goal.

New Year’s resolutions are something that can have someone refocus their life goals and if it so happens to be on New Year’s Day so what? Let people live.

Anyways mine is just to be healthy: physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally; just be well-rounded. Not a hard goal to do, and something that I would aim to do. If I feel like I haven’t made it by the end of this year, there’s always next year.

Courtesy of The Huffington Post

Next thing, I have going on is this book I’m listening to called I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajaye. I’m only an hour into the six and a half hour audiobook but I’m thoroughly enjoying it. It’s witty, funny, but gives everyone the time and place to look at themselves and see what they can do to improve on themselves as a person.

I’m Judging You is basically the perfect book to give to someone who, you know, needs a little bit of help in their lives when it comes to being a decent human being. And sometimes, that includes you. Or me. I’m guilty of being an awful person sometimes. And it’s okay.

For the most part, I think that’s about it. I want to do another Muse of the Day or make another segment of this blog, I don’t know yet. Until next time.

Sincerely,

Jante

Life Update #2 | My Unrequited Love For Aziz Ansari | Lots of Critiquing

Hey! 



|    LIFE UPDATE    |

It's Jante obviously, but I have a new blog post up thanks to an uplifting of spirits and I am just feeling much happier now. I was really feeling quite awful for the past couple of months and I was feeling unmotivated and uninspired and basically every single un-prefix + positive attribute that you can think of. 

Well the basics of everything are:

 - I'm currently volunteering at a local mosque and I subbed for a class one day. I'm also in an Arabic class so I'm learning Arabic again and it's honestly such an interesting language. Maybe one day I can learn it as soon as I know Spanish and Swahili fluently. I want to aim for an age where I can be fluent in both languages so maybe 28? Yeah, 28 is a good age. And I don't think this is a hard task for me to fulfill, I've always been relatively good at languages and I know waaaaay too many bilingual, tri-lingual and multilingual people for me to only know English as a language.

- I also am finally getting a job...hopefully...that's still a work in progress.

- I got accepted into the nursing program and I finished all of my application procedures needed. I'm just waiting for my orientation meeting which will be in December. 

|  MY UNREQUITED LOVE FOR AZIZ ANSARI  |

This is mainly just me trying to live my fantasy that one day Aziz Ansari will somehow stumble across this blog post, read it, fall madly in love with me (in a totally platonic way cause Muslims before whatever-the-hell-he-is) and we become the best of friends. 

I just read (okay listened) to Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg narrated by him and it was just a beautiful six hours of pure joy and undiluted rapture as I listened to his nasally voice read to me his book (and also make fun of me for listening to his book). BUT IT'S OKAY cause I BOUGHT THE HARD COVER...you hear that Aziz! I BOUGHT IT SO GTFO. 

The amazing thing about this was that Aziz, managed to be quite hilarious but also provide great data, experiments and enlightening commentary in regards to social media and the pros and cons that it has on contemporary romance. In the end, I will most definitely be rereading the book again. 

|     LOTS OF CRITIQUING     |

Given the fact that I have had too much time on my hands, I have been watching way more television and films and with that I guess I kinda came across this YouTube channel called TheReelRejects and D4Darious and I guess I have just been looking at films and television shows in a different light?

I wouldn't necessarily say that I've been the most observant and greatest critic of all time but I think I have gained this ability to critically analyse and note whatever I am watching by paying more attention to how a director may set the scene, figuring out why they may shoot a scene in that way, how the set is designed and acting methodology and so on so forth. 

I have also been doing a lot of reading about the movie business and how it works and it has been really interesting. I wouldn't necessarily call this a hobby of mine nor am I interested in participating in it but rather it is something to occupy my time while I await for the next chapter of my life to pop up.

Welp, that's it and I guess I'll talk to you later. 

Sincerely,

Jante