2015- moved to Charlottesville. went to work orientation. went to my first day at after school at the then Meriwether Lewis elementary school. got lost driving home. was generally sad. it was cold and rainy all day.
2016- Still working at the same after school job but made up my mind that I would quit. interviewed at the therapeutic boarding school I would go on to work at.
2017- Working at the therapeutic boarding school. It was really tough but also really fulfilling and probably grew more as a person during that year and a half than any other time in my life.
2018- Back at the same after school gig from before but with a new boss and enjoying it a lot more. Was living at a summer camp but would leave in April of the next year.
2019- Still working at after school but also was an art teacher at an all boys middle school. Had terrible roommates. Started climbing once a week or so. Was pretty busy during this time.
2020- COVID. From March to June I'd moved back home to Harrisonburg. Then I worked at Field Camp for my second summer and then I didn't really have a job. I was working on illustrating a book for Field Camp but not much else. Got more into climbing and applied to be a coach at the gym around this time.
2021- In the spring of this year I went back to afterschool for one more semester and started coaching once a week at the gym. Then I left afterschool completely and coached more in the Fall while doing some off-season work with camp. This was the last year I'd live with roommates. Still in the house I'd moved into after the harrisonburg COVID break. So far I'd lived in a duplex with roommates, a summer camp, a different house with different roommates near the first house, back home with parents, an old house near UVA with new new roommates, and then the next year I'd get the current apartment I have.
2022- Living in current one bedroom apartment near the climbing gym. Coaching every day and also doing off-season camp stuff.
2023- Same.
2024- Same.
It's been pretty stable since 2022. Haven't moved or changed jobs. I'm really grateful for all the people who supported me and gave me opportunities and I'm even kinda grateful for the people who were really awful because they taught me a lot too but they mostly taught me about what awful people are like and ideally I wouldn't have to learn that at all but...well, thanks I guess.
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