Hey AGJ4, my name's Phoenix, but you can also call my Nyx, whichever one you fancy. I haven't been having an amazing week; I'm doing pretty badly in my classes and today I decided to skip a class and say I was sick. I'm going to make it up though and the break is a relief, and I've been studying. Well, I'm not studying as much as I could be but I'll really be focused soon enough I hope. I've been mostly looking at art and quotes and random humor related to the Penumbra Podcast? Have you heard of that? It's about a genderqueer private eye who lives on Mars and the crimes he deals with along with his secretary and his criminal and the strange happenings of outer space. It features many characters I would die for, loads of queer characters, and very chaotic characters. It also has some really beautiful dialogue about love and identity, as well as the grit to not give up. I really really love it. There was a while when I could barely get myself to read, but I'd listen to at least 3 episodes a day. I have to finish the weekly soon. I think maybe I didn't describe my character's personality well, because the person who partnered with me just like barely used her at all, which I kind of feel let down by but I'm not really worried about it. I guess it means I'll write her without accidentally being influenced by the way someone else interpretted her lol. I'm not sure how I feel about her yet. I keep writing stuff I don't like with her but I'm not changing my character with so little time left, even with my extension. Plus it wouldn't be fair to my partner, though I guess it technically wouldn't affect their points, it would still feel like cheating. Plus I don't actually want to give up on my character. My professor is offering to sponsor us to do some little research project that we'd present in mid-April. The deadline to sign up is today and I've had over a month to think about it. Truth be told though, I have no actual ideas, but I have intense fear of missing out. I've always had an intense fear of missing out. I've been to one of these events before and saw people's presentations and they were so good. There were studies of art, and studies of how different cultures use medicine and ritual together, studies of bees. Honestly there's so much, and I love plants and I want to work with plants. I just can't think of a good project idea to do-- especially since I've barely worked with plants. In my defense though, it's hard to work with plants when my neighbors all around spray pesticides, and it's not like they're spraying pesticides to keep bugs away from their food, no it's so their grass lawns stay green. I'm anti grass lawn, I think clover lawns are better because they host nitrogen-fixing bacteria, so they're better for the soil. I can't really think about that right now. I definitely need to get more experience with plants if I want to work in plant pathology, which is like the study of diseases in plants. However, as I said at the beginning, I'm struggling in my classes, but I don't know how much a tutor would help me. I think I don't try hard enough. I have a calculus exam tomorrow and I really really need to try. So after I finish this letter, I'm going to study. I probably should go now, but I don't want to leave this letter unfinished, and I think there's more to talk about as long as I write fast. AGJ4, you said you want to talk about books, well which books? I have had a tendency to start a series but never finish it. I really love the Hunger Games, The Underland Chronicles, all Rick Riordan series even the fully flawed Heroes of Olympus I still love, Aristotle and Dante, Babel, and Six of Crows. I also really like the Pandava Quintet which is the Rick Riordan Presents based in The Vedas and The Mahabharata, but I never actually finished it. My reading list is insanely huge! and I've only read a few short stories this year and one longer book, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. I'm currently reading The Spear Cuts through Water by Simon Jimenez. I have to do math now. I look forward to hearing about books and whatever else you want to talk about. Let me know if you'd like my letter lengths to change. -xXFierroOrFalafelXx
