Introductions--Otra vez

Hey.
Right.

Ahem.

Well, I'm going to dust this off and give it another try, we'll see how it goes.

So a bit of an update is in order:

I'm still in my 20-somethings, and I'm still a music therapy student--but only for another month. Then in fall I will reach the illustrious position of Music Therapy Intern, and if I can survive a year of that and the board exam I'll be an honest-to-goodness professional Board Certified Music Therapist. For the duration of April, however, I've got a job tutoring high school math, a scary test to prepare for, and a few Cache Valley based adventures to get into.

I've been back from my mission for over a year now, and by now that feels normal. I still miss it of course, and have dreams now and then about going back, but for the most part I'm happy where I am and looking forward to finally finishing college and moving on to the next thing. I still prefer hot weather to cold, speak Spanish when I'm talking to myself, put chile powder on EVERYTHING, and try to park places where I won't have to back up--but I'm not scared of pants anymore, so I think that's pretty good progress.

So I'm a music therapist (in training), an RM, a curious soul, and an occasional forayer (is that a word?) into the world of DIY crafts. My first love and passion, however, is writing--less nonfiction (like this blog is attempting to be) and more fantasy/sci-fi/horror. I actually am waiting to hear back on a short story submission to Stone Skin Press to their Swords vs Cthulhu Anthology--fingers crossed, the last update is that they're up to their eyebrows in submissions but they intend to contact everyone by the end of the month. I know I'm competing against a lot of more established writers, so my chances of getting in aren't too good--this would be my first publication outside of student literary magazines- -but if nothing else I learned a lot and had fun writing the story, so that's something.

ANYWAY.
So--this blog. Don't want to make too many promises because leaving it untouched for over a year is a pretty bad precedent. But, for now, my intention is to turn this into a bit of a catchall for whatever is going on in my life, focusing on the weird and creative. We'll see how it goes. And, if you are actually reading this--(gasp!), do feel free to drop in a line if there's something you particularly want to see (or don't want to see---"Please. No more photos of you in weird costume makeup, I'm begging you")