I think I’m using up my yearly quota of apologies in regards to this blog, but once again, I’m sorry! 2015 has been hectic, with dissertation stress at the beginning of the year, and then job stress and, more recently, family stress. Like every year, this year has been one of ups and downs: I met lifelong friends whilst I worked at an international NGO, but sadly had to resign because management were so toxic and they treated their students horribly. There’s a bigger story behind everything, but it’s hard to both think and talk about – let’s just say that, to my dismay, money and greed really do make the world go round, and I’m very sad that my first experience working for an NGO was like this. On the other hand, as I’ve mentioned, I’m so grateful to the group of friends I made there. We really got each other through this whole ordeal – in all honesty, I think the shitty situation made us bond a lot faster and to a greater extent.
Onto writing…which I haven’t been doing much of. I’m not going to say that this blog is on hiatus, because I don’t want it to be. But once again, I’m swamped with applications and I really need to figure out what I’ll be doing over the next few years. I’ve also been writing a lot more short fiction under my real name, so that’s been exciting, seeing as that was my first passion before poetry. I’m even thinking of sending something in to an online magazine? We’ll see…
Anyway, once again, thank you to everyone who’s still following me and reading this neglected blog. Hopefully, I’ll update it soon, once I get my head on straight about these MA applications.
I hope you all have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Ally xxx