Whoops, it’s been a while again.
Everything with Max has been good news ever since his surgery. This week, I was able to fly home to see him for a few days, and it was so relieving to actually get to see him in person. He’s gaining weight back and starting to look like himself. He’s close to being able to talk normally again and sounds more like himself every day. All of his nurses, doctors, and therapists are saying he’s progressing ahead of schedule. Overall, it just seems like he’s doing very well, keeping his head high, and most of all he continues to maintain a great sense of humor about the whole thing. He’s begun “tumor profiteering” as he refers to it as, where he is using his tumor as an excuse to get lots of new cooking and baking supplies, convince my parents to pick his desired destinations for future vacations, and of course not have to take the trash out once he gets home. Smart kid.
Going home in general was very easing. It made me feel a lot less anxious about the entire situation to see how normal things are already becoming. My parents are doing well, and Max has been getting tons of support from friends, family, and neighbors. It was really heartening to see all of that, and it made me feel a bit more comfortable going back to Montana.
Life lately has been a bit busy as usual, but I have a feeling it’s about to slow down precipitously. My only close friend out here, Courtney, just left. We made the best of the last few weeks she was here, which was really great. We were able to do a ton of hiking, go out to all our favorite bars in town, and even got up to Bozeman. It’s been nice to have a friend here for the past few months, and I’m very thankful to have met her.
Alas, I once more shall be alone out in the wilderness, which maybe will come with some benefits. I still need to edit my thesis to get it to a point where I can start expanding on it again, and I need to figure out how to meet with a professor at Montana State who’d be in my field of study. I really want to start kicking my grad school process into gear, and I think those two things are the first steps. Hopefully my excess alone time in the near future will enable this.
I also want to start applying for some jobs in Florida soon, or some remote stuff. Working out in Montana has been great and all, but one thing I have realized is that, unfortunately, I do indeed need money. My bank account has been… rather low… for the majority of the time I’ve been out here. It would’ve been fine even with my relatively low wage, except I can’t actually get full-time hours like I was supposed to. This has led to getting paid barely in excess of what my already cheap rent costs every month, which has made things a bit difficult. Still, as long as I can put gas in the tank to get myself to Florida come October 28th, I’ll have no complaints.
I also want to bring back my album reviews, which I did one of after declaring it a new series. I love writing about music, and I think once more with my excess of free time I’m going to need new things to do. I’ve been listening to a ton of different stuff lately, and I think I’ll probably review some stuff I’ve loved for a long time but haven’t written about as well which will be fun. So stay tuned for that if you want!
Song of the Week (Max Selection):
The Line 
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