sarah HANNAH gómez

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I desperately miss writing here, and I log in all the time, look around, write down notes for posts, and then go away.

Here’s the thing: I am trying to be good to myself and good about myself, meaning that I am trying to treat myself well and trying to be thoughtful with how I present myself and to only write here when I feel like I have something to say. Full, thought-out ideas. And I haven’t had the energy to think things out because I’m still recovering from the depression I was in over the summer, and because work has been mentally and emotionally draining, and because I’m trying to develop new habits.

I really, really want to be writing. I’ve been writing a lot more, but not the kind of a lot I need to if I want to legitimately call myself a writer. I don’t like that, but because I have other things to take care of, like working enough to pay my bills and trying to stay healthy, I’m not able to make it a priority. I know lots of authors have jobs and kids and lives, and I only really have the first, and yet they make it work, and that’s great for them. Right now, I’m just not able.

But I’m making it a goal. I’ve read, and probably you have, too, that it takes something like two months to develop a habit. Right? Probably Self magazine told me that. At any rate, that doesn’t seem far off. It didn’t take long after I moved to Silicon Valley and started working at an institution that is powered by Google Apps for me to construct my life entirely around my Google Calendar. If you force them, habits happen. But I can’t put “writing” in my calendar on a daily basis yet. Not just yet. Continue reading →

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I Googled myself today because lately I have been getting emails meant for a Hannah Gómez in Texas (are you there? If so, I kind of hate you and really want you to learn your email address and stress it to others so that I stop getting your ridiculous memberships to stupid websites and newsletters for culinary academies). Then I got distracted by Google’s “related searches,” where I could clearly see which searches were for me and which were for a third name-doppelganger (there must be a word for a person who shares your name, and I’m willing to bet it’s German), so I started clicking around. And then I forgot to NaNo and I forgot to take my vertigo pills, so the world kept spinning slightly, and I forgot to eat. Continue reading →

Hey, look! I rode in a hot air balloon with the most ridiculous American Girl yet (Girl of the Year, so not a real AG, but still, she comes with a hot air balloon).

So I haven’t been blogging much lately. I doubt you miss me, but I thought I would let you know where I have been that is not here, in case you in fact can’t get enough of me.

I went on vacation and got the soundtrack to Pocahontas stuck in my head, because I was here . And now I am in Chicago going here when I should be doing this .

But also, I am elsewhere on the Internet and in print, like a peer-reviewed journal , this magazine , and this blog . Apparently when I yell repeatedly about how there are still major problems with diversity and race and ethnicity, people respond or tweet or tumble, and that is awesome, because I would really like to make more friends/colleagues/mentors and have more conversations, because that’s how shit gets started, man. And also, thank you for tweeting or tumbling me or publishing a blurb about me as an alumna of your school, because that makes my day and makes me feel famous.

I’ll be back when I have a handle on things. And next month I will also be blogging at Forever YA and Reading Jessica Darling , so if you’re not already reading those, get on it.

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