sadposting is for sadpeople we don't do that here ({"anymore]

remember how 2021 was miserable? cuz i do

but 2022? that one was good

or rather

the second half of that one was good, like really good

the best, actually

like the actual best here's what i did (it's not much but i am actually happy 😌]

early 2022

i was workin at a job that was not good for me in a city that was not good for me, sucked wouldn't recommend it

mid 2022

i moved to portland - turns out that was the best decision i ever done made

the summer was slow. i did achieve my goal for the summer which was a simple "don't work at a shit ass job that i hate"

i did not work at a shit ass job that i hated so. 👍👍

started making irl friends which is not something i had done in uh... like a lot of years actually

went to denver for pico day. met a lot of people in the flesh that i had known as screennames for years. psychogoldfish didn't know who i was because i was beardless. i played guitar hero with buhlboy and it was the best guitar hero sesh i ever had. buhl's the only person i have ever encountered that plays that silly game at the same level i do so that was really neat! i met lilbocks and beatbick for the first time ever? those are my buddies??

i had fun for sure but tbth it was kind of a stressful experience in a lot of ways too because this was at the peak of me realizing just how much i had fallen out of the newgrounds community and that hurt. i got it in my head that it would be a good idea to just completely de-internetize for a while. and so -

shortly after returning to portland i did the thing. i deleted basically all of my social media accounts, damn near including my newgrounds account (but i refrained because i just have too much history here). i was really sloppy about it unfortunately and scared a lot of people and it was definitely an asshole thing to do and i take full responsibility for that, and i am sorry. that said, however, it ended up being a good move for me i think.

my mental health improved a lot during that time.

i made a lot of really good close friends in my new city and developed an actually healthy social system for the first time since i left montreal in 2018, if not even earlier honestly.

i didn't really do a whole lot for the rest of the summer, at least not anything really worth mentioning here but i was having a good time. i was exploring and falling in love with portland. i went outside, touched grass. i read a lot.

littlbox visited me very briefly

bitbeak visited me for the perfect amount of time

some of my family visited me for way too long

late 2022

in september i went back to school for the first time since 2018. pursuing a degree in multimedia. i'm really trying to get a good creative job, ideally at shadowmachine but failing that i hope that having a degree and a more fleshed out portfolio after school will get me into some kind of work that involves video and/or animation but does not involve news because i really hope to never work in news again. i've made some cool connections through school, not really any close friends or anything but certainly people who i'd like to think are future collaborators and what have you. i worked as a lab tech in the multimedia computer lab.

the school term ended 2 weeks ago. i uploaded a couple of my video projects to youtube.

i took a photography class this term, which was really cool because i've never done photography before and i ended up really loving it! i like taking pictures of plants 😌🌱 done a lil bit of posting on instagram for the first time, @gagegoodell if ya wanna see

i had a bunch of little music projects lying around on my hard drive that i knew i was never going to finish so i uploaded a few of them as {`2mintGr00vin'} on bandcamp (some are here on NG too)

so uh yep it's not much but it's been the best time of my life probably ever and i hope each and every one of you (except you! just kidding, especially you ❤️) are having good times too and if not then i hope and believe that they are comin up for you very soon and i love you

in a couple days i'm gonna be posting my music yearlies 👀