Diary: Graduation from WVU!!!

Hey, I did the thing!!!  I figured I should post about it on here too

I cut it close and didn't want to say anything or celebrate too soon, but my grades are in and I really did it!  These past few weeks were possibly the most stressful of my life

I'm kind of a horrible student.  I have trouble remembering what I need to do (and even remembering to look at what I wrote down to remember to do).  When I have a lot, I find it impossible to focus on each thing, and see it as one big ball of impossible, so I shut down and give up.  I was scared to even celebrate and had a hard time being excited about graduating

My mom

The photographer who took all of the pictures in this post, Kevin

Arianna

Basically, this sums it up quite well:

I know that I can be smart and I have very good thoughts and ideas and I feel like I understand a lot about people, relationships, and life, but when I try to study something I find interesting, I just lose interest until I almost dislike it, and want to avoid it.  I wanted to be a fashion designer and go to grad school in Japan for it, but I absolutely dread the thought of more school, and I don't want to MAKE clothes, just design them. But I can't put my ideas well on paper because I'm not great at drawing, and don't really feel motivated or inspired enough to.  Also when I'm in school, I noticed I lost interest in a lot of things I used to do, but maybe that's just me changing? I used to doodle all the time, dress up more, play with fancy makeup and nail art, but I don't so much anymore.  I wonder if those interests will start to pick up again now that I'm out of school? Photography has become a strong interest, and modeling is one that wavers between strong and not so much.  I need to improve myself more for modeling. I'm ready to take it to the next level, instead of just freelance, not getting paid, just-for-fun stuff (though I'll still do some on the side because it's fun).  When I had long breaks in school or weekends, I found it hard to make myself get up and do much of anything unless it's doing something with friends. Maybe now I will want to and be able to again?

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Anyway, now I feel like a huge weight has been lifted and like I'm finally free!  The plan for the next few months is find to a second job so I can save money for Japan, find a job in Japan, lose weight, like seriously cuz I ate my stress as sweets for the past few months, and so I can get into modeling for reals, get rid of lots of my stuff, and see all of my friends as often as possible since I couldn't during the combination of school/work every weekend, and do lots of blogging and photography!

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Morgantown Halloween 2016

Hello! I have some posts from a while ago that I still am working on, but I wanted to post my Halloween post not too long after Halloween, since I told some people about my blog when I took their pictures.

Some of my closest friends I met in Japan visited me recently (their first time in WV), and I want to post about that soon too!

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I worked my university job the first part of the weekend, so here are some pictures I took of students passing by!  I also briefly stopped by the Japanese club's party because it was in the same building as work.  Some of these are my friends and some are just strangers whose costumes I thought were cool!

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Anna from Frozen

Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

They were giving out candy, and gave me some when I took their picture!

Baby Doll from Sucker Punch

Chiyo Sakura from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun

And my own bunny maid costume from Bodyline

Then I took Saturday off because it was my turn to party at Arianna's!

I have the cutest friends ♡

And here's the makeup I did for Takeru's cool skeleton costume

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Blog: Pokemon Go!

Originally I didn't particularly plan to get the game, since my past Pokemoning was just watching my cousin play when I was little, and I'm not much of a gamer, I get frustrated and give up too easily, so watching someone else play is the best!  But, after seeing my friends play and learning that you have to go outside to actually chase the Pokemon, and walk to level up and hatch eggs (I've been trying really hard to exercise more) and find Pokestops to get items, I figured I would give it a try! I love it!!! Though it's still super buggy which gets to be really annoying...but I've run into friends while playing, made a few new acquaintances, and I've been walking a lot more everyday! So I've been enjoying my ride on this bandwagon so far XD

Here's just a few fun screenshots I took!

My best Pokemon so far <3

WVU's campus is a goldmine!

My favorite cafe is a Pokestop!

From the one time I briefly owned a gym...

And then here are just cute screenshots of Pokemon I took

I'm sooo excited for the future of this game! I rarely get so excited for games. I have motivation to exercise and be healthy already from watching Taylor R's videos, and from my own dream of modeling in Japan possibly becoming a reality soon. But it's always been really hard for me to STAY motivated to do anything, even the things I enjoy or want so badly to achieve. This game is just enough extra motivation I think to keep exercising by walking!

This game is actually the reason I haven't been blogging so much lately though X( It's good because I've been going outside and working on one of my big goals for this summer (losing weight, lost 3 pounds so far!) but blogging often was also a goal, so I gotta get to work on that!

Here are some really pretty pictures I took while Pokehunting the other day

Look at all of the people hanging around the Pokestops in Morgantown!

Takeru had to wait for the Japan release (yesterday) of Pokemon even though he's in the US because they just released it for his kind of phone on the same day XD Yay Pokemon hunting dates!! <3

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Photography: Azaleas

Azaleas are in bloom everywhere around town!  These are all of the different colors and kinds I encountered with my camera.

These pink ones were in front of the Creative Arts Center.  I was admiring them the day before I got my camera wishing I had my camera, so when I got my new one I went back to take pictures while they were still in full bloom!

I really like the contrast of the dark stormy sky and the white azaleas.  The sun was still shining on them, making them look extra bright, while the dark clouds were on their way in the background.

I got them on a sunny day too!

Then these ones were super tiny! Their petals were also more spaced apart