I suppose an update would only be polite.
Short version:
Mom still has cancer, is doing mostly okay right now, hopefully new treatments will get through the FDA before she needs them. (While they're at it, if they want to hurry up on some of the new stuff for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, I wouldn't complain. Just saying.)
Graduated with a degree in Cinema & Digital Arts from Point Park University. After everything else I've done, it felt weirdly anti-climatic - my mom was diagnosed with cancer summer between Junior and Senior year, also, so mostly I was just hoping I'd be able to finish Senior year. Doing the whole graduation thing and getting a diploma was kind of a relief as much as anything else since it meant one less set of things to stress about. (Maybe I'd feel more excited if I actually frame my diploma and hang it up somewhere? Does that help?)
Currently pondering getting involved in some volunteer stuff since I have random amounts of spare time here and there around helping my mom with things (she is stubborn and is still working full time, f*** her cancer) but not quite sure yet which volunteer organization I want to get involved with, or if I want to go through one of those sites where you can just sort of fill in here and there depending on who needs extra bodies for any specific event.
So that's about it. If you have any suggestions for groups to volunteer with, lemme know. I don't really care what I do as long as it is interesting and in some way educational for me - though my view of what counts as educational is pretty broad, since I think you can learn from a lot of experiences if you just keep your mind open to it.
