time to be an essential guy

It’s Friday but it’s the first day of the week I am up at 8am in earnest!!!

It’s the end of the week but it’s the first day I feel like I have some motivation!!!

I started writing for my Winter Olympics Tiny Song project (will share to every and all Olivia Rafferty Outlet in good time) and I am excited for what sport it’ll be today (thinking ice hockey or figure skating?).

I also want to complete an application for mentorship with this women in music thing… have to write several paragraphs about myself (why do all applications involve the writing of several paragraphs?)

I also also want to start writing or making notes/ideas for my SCAR abstract. I am starting to feel the sand running out and my anxiety kicking in. Maybe I need to ask for help??? But from whomst? Welp. Time to read about the glaciology of the Cairngorm mountains.

I have also made a ‘Work With Me’ page but have been toooooooo scared to share ahaha. AHAHAHA! I need money though and I do want to start working with musicians. I just want to give it a shot. And I have the capability. I just need the strength to draft some DMs and send ‘em out. Heelwp.

(an essential guy)

Just saw someone on Tumblr refer to insects as “these essential guys :)”. You’re right. These guys are essential.

one week!

It took one week to find an apartment in Glasgow, which feels wild. During this process, I had to remind myself: “what if it was easy?”

It’s allowed to be easy!

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Here are the other things I need to get done in February:

• write my abstract for the SCAR conference in Oslo (scared of this one!)

• do my Olympics project…. yes girl. i have a scheme and a PLAN

• find a job!?!??!?!

• share my ‘work with me’ page which i made on this website. i want to start helping other musicians and make a bit of moolah inbetween work whilst I have the time for it

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In Other News…

Heated Rivalry has my whole heart and soul.

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In Other Other News…

I got a haircut! I feel like this is the beginning of a new personality Olivia. It’s the first time I’ve really loved a haircut in a while and not just felt like I was doing it to just maintain stuff. It feels like a CHANGE, which is what I’ve been craving.

train to glasgow

The landscape outside is a series of gloomy Rothkos.

I had a little snooze on the train listening to my own songs. Feeling that groggy, “who am I where am I” feeling you get after a nap.

I also bought a mammoth Leuchtturm 1917– 411 pages. I really wanted a Hobonichi Cousin but instead got this and will date every page and write in it. I want one notebook which encapsulates my whole year. Did a gross bullet journal calendar at the front and the ink is ghosting through so I need to use better pens and less dark markers. I want it to be a diary/commonplace journal. Currently in love with this one Instagram account @wordlayout and her commonplace. She makes her own stickers and it’s perfectttttt.

every hoohooha

heading up to Glasgow today on the train! going to look for a place to live! hoohooha!