Sam's website! (^_^)b

It's technically the 9th, because it's 1:53am right now, but I'm still counting it as the 8th since I'm still awake.

I'm having a crisis over what classes to take this year! I thiiiink what I've landed on is this:

Fall 2026

• Intro to Wood Sculpture (ARST 133)
• Language and Prehistory (ANTH 376)
• Junior Studio (ARST 300)
• Data Structures (CSCI 151) IF I can swing taking a different lab section AND leaving 20 minutes early...

And here's what my schedule would look like in that case:

If I can't swing data structures, I'll take Multivariable Calculus (MATH 231) instead, which would look like this:

And then my spring classes...

Spring 2027

• Intermediate Print (ARST 261)
• Introduction to Risograph Printing (ARST 860)
• Algorithms (CSCI 280)
• Ingenious Making in the Modern Age (ARTH 295)
• Syntax (LING 301) ??? (Might not take this)

Which would look like this...

Alternatively, I'll take Analysis (MATH 301) in the place of Algorithms, in the case that I take Multivariable Calc in the fall. It would fall at the same times anyways.

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Phew! Typing that all out made me feel miles better. I just had it all floating around in my head and was totally freaking out!!! No more freaking out, I'm calm about it now!

In other news, I'm getting a tattoo on the 14th! I officially booked it. I'm getting a copperhead ouroboros on my ankle! I'm so so so excited!!!

Bleh. :P I'm gonna go to bed now.

Yesterday I went to Iowa City again. I was there with Kaia for one of their doctors' appointments, but we had a good time checking out the mall afterwards! We went to Panera for lunch, and walked around Target, Barnes and Noble, Hot Topic, and Spencer's and had fun looking at everything. I got another Warrior Cats blind box because I am a child. (I got Sandstorm! I'll put an image here eventually.)

Today was less eventful. I took a very very long afternoon nap. Me and Kaia have been watching this new show called The Outsider, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. I read the book several years ago and loved it, so I had high expectations, and the expectations have been met! It's really great. It can be a little slow at times, but that's Stephen King for you. Oh, and tonight, I made banana bread! Very yummy! It came out a little bit raw at the top because I accidentally took it out early, oops.

One last thing: I might be getting another tattoo soon! There's a tattoo artist in Iowa City whose work I really love, and I'm working on maybe booking with them. Originally, I was going to get a carousel that wrapped around one of my arms, but they wanted to book me all day for that since it would be pretty complicated, and they didn't have any all-day appointments before I leave the state. So, I emailed them back and let them know that I'm still interested in getting a tattoo soon with them, but that I have a couple ideas for sommething simpler: an ourobouros on my ankle, or a silly little dragon, fish, or bird somewhere (maybe above my knee?). Hopefully I hear back soon! I'm really really wanting to get another one soon. Everybody always says that when you get one tattoo, you'll want another one immediately after, and I've found that to be true... I have the disease... I want more...

It's been another couple boring days here in Iowa. We've been watching a loooot of movies (in the middle of a Spiderman marathon and aa Tron marathon, or a MaraTron, if you will), and I've been playing a lot of Minecraft and reading a lot. I'm rereading the first Warrior Cats book right now, which is obviously awesome, and I'm also reading Wool by Hugh Howey. Today we went out to get coffee and I had a (not great) cortado... I miss the espresso at Slow Train.

I don't have much more to muse on. I'll have much more interesting blog posts once I get back to school, though! It'll be a busy semeseter--four full classes, work, and YeoPress (Oberlin's press collective). I'm excited to have things to do all the time. I'm starting to get a teensy bit stir-crazy...