Nothing Like a Fresh Start

It's hard to believe that it has been so long since I have posted on here. I won't say the break was an intentional decision, but this blog definitely fell to the back burner last summer. A lot has happened since the last time I posted. A brief synopsis would be that I graduated from college with my bachelor's degree and applied to and enrolled in law school. Plenty of stories to share from the last year but I'll be saving those for another time.

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I've been out of classes for close to a month now, and now that graduation festivities have finally died down and I've recovered from Senior Week, I'm bored. I've always been a bit of a reluctant workaholic. I procrastinate and complain constantly while I'm in school with "so much to do" but then when I have nothing to do, I'm beside myself with boredom and the lack of structure. I've been craving a creative outlet, and the logical choice for me is to come back to this blog. I feel like this blog never really got enough attention I intended to give to it. I had great intentions starting out, but I feel like this summer is my chance to really get it established before I head into Law School. I want to get into a solid routine with it so that once I'm in school I can use it as what I'm sure will be a much needed creative outlet.

I plan on sharing my goals, tips, and my struggles and triumphs here in whatever form they may take. I'm hoping to post about three times each week, and keep up with the Instagram account I've created to accompany the blog. I'm not sure anyone will be interested in reading this besides my future self, but at the very least it will give me something to do this summer! On the off chance that anyone is reading this, feel free to send any blog post ideas my way via comments or message!

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