Hey, pals! Are you sitting in a pool of your own sweat because even though it’s September and you willed it to finally, please, for the love of everything, to just be Autumn already, it’s still averaging 90º every day? Me too!

Y’all, is this summer ever gonna end? My new routine has me leaving home three days out of the week at the ungodly hour of 6 am and without fail, I am completely covered in sweat by the time my bus comes. It’s dark at 6 am! And yet somehow, it’s still so, so, so hot. I was starting to think that this would never end and that I needed to completely redo my wardrobe to fit my new, sweaty life in Texas and then I remembered that in 3 short weeks, I’m gonna be on a gay mountain in Wisconsin with a bunch of you weirdos, and I’ll be able to wear a puffy vest! I could cry! I love the fall!!

Other than the fact that the weather refuses to change, everything else in my life seems to be changing. Graduate school! Holy. Shit. You gays did not warn me about this? Three weeks into the game, there’s this constant conflict of my deep desire to nap combined with the fact that I want to take in all the knowledge, read all the books, grab all the opportunities, and do all the networking. So far, though, the napping instinct has won most days. My typical day consists of class, reading, writing, grading (which I will tell you nothing about because I took a training to learn about FERPA which is very Serious business), feeling guilty about not playing with my cats enough, and falling into a stress-sleep. But in the words of our newly presidential-aged queen, Beyoncé, “I’m a survivor, I’m not gon’ give up!”

Tell me about yourselves you adorable bananas. How’re you surviving? Did you start school recently? Is it great? Are the prices of textbooks making you wanna burn the academic industrial complex right to the ground? Did you meet a cool queer person on the street/tinder/your ride share recently? Have you figured out the meaning of life yet? Is your cat also looking at you from atop your dining room table (even though you told him not to get up there) while you lay on the floor and type? Are you caught up on Steven Universe????

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