I keep forgetting about this thing...

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.

Welcome

So, this is the first post. This may well be the only post. We'll see how it goes.

Why a blog? Two reasons.

1. I'm just about to start my senior year of college and the reality that I will be graduating and thus have to go and make my way in the Real World and Find A Job and all those "fun" things has just smacked me between the eyes. It is fairly terrifying. Therefore, I figure I can post about it here from time to time so anyone who stumbles across the blog can laugh at my misery. I'm giving and generous like that.

2. My mom has just been diagnosed with a type of bone cancer, and she's getting really frustrated at the entire process and keeps telling me one of us should do a blog. So I might blog about that, too. (Don't worry, most of it will probably be me complaining about how stupid the medical system in the US is, so you'll be able to laugh at that, too. When in doubt, be entertained, this is my theory.)

Why "PirateFoxy"?

The blog address is entirely because I am lazy and couldn't think of anything and hey, my dog is named Pirate and my mom's dog is named Foxy. Plus, I  keep hoping that one of my talented artist friends will draw a cute little cartoon Pirate Foxy.