so 2017 happened that's another year of
my life that I'll never get back in a
futile attempt to make time seeing
slightly less fleeting here is a recap
of what happened in my ear because you
guys kind of seem to care about my life
for some reason that I may never
understand but thank you last January I
started out in kind of a weird place ie
very depressed
fun times first of all I had this hair
which was a mistake it's so we're
looking back at videos and photos of
this time last year because I feel like
I don't even recognize myself like why
am i fake smiling so [ __ ] hard at the
camera
why are my eyebrows doing nothing we may
never know in February I auditioned and
joined a theatre company on campus
because friends and stepping out of your
comfort zone I don't know I learned that
acting discord and improv
is really harder that [ __ ] is so scary I
get a heart attack every time I do it
here is my super awkward head shot for
Encino company I'm still not sure what
my hair is doing I would also my
petition to graduate in three years
instead of floor got approved which is
awesome because out-of-state tuition is
a [ __ ] in March I downloaded tinder for
the first time that was a mistake I met
a guy
relationships are a thing I listen to a
lot of ed Sheeran and walking around
campus smiling like an idiot also at
this point I was interning and
production company where I basically sat
in a book closet and read scripts for
free fun times the only photos I have of
me there are this one of me considering
getting bangs honestly this is a rough
year for my hair guys let's just agree
on that move on and this delightful one
of me trying to be flirty on snapchat
and failing in April I started a new
quarter in school with a good feeling
about disco Los Angeles and life thing
in general I took these photos on the
game of thrones thrown during geek week
with my friends we're trying so hard to
be badass but we look ridiculous still
listening to a lot of Ed Sheeran um
still a lot of stupid smiling in the
beginning of May things took a fun turn
I spent my 18th birthday feeling like I
want to throw up crying on
the bathroom clinic because I was afraid
I was pregnant welcome to adulthood
Ashley good news on the hair front I
finally realized that no matter how many
times I dye my hair platinum I'm not
gonna look like an Instagram model so I
went back to my natural dark color I
went to TFT prom which is basically just
an apartment party where they charge you
five dollars at the door and there are a
disproportionate number of exam theater
kids my boyfriend was not there and I
was no longer listening to Ed Sheeran
but I discovered that night there's
nothing unlimited pancakes and good
friends can't fix and like three months
of crying myself to sleep over the
summer and I wrapped up my first year in
college finally spending time with the
people who had supported me all along of
course with more pancakes and I made my
first film ever in film school which is
awesome but also slightly concerning
because I'm kind of getting old at this
point and I need to learn how to
actually make things I shot it on arias
which is like a super archaic actual
film camera from like the 70s that
breaks down like every five seconds but
somehow I film turned out here is a
super shitty like recording of a
recording so the quality is really bad
but I'm gonna get properly digitized
sometime soon and then share it with you
guys because I think you'll really like
it
hopefully I also found out that I didn't
get an internship that I thought I had
nailed the interview for and I really
really wanted over this summer I thought
that once I moved to LA and started
college you know I'd be like doing big
things in Hollywood or whatever but here
I was flying back to Maryland to work
the same minimum-wage job at an ice
cream shop that I've been working since
like 10th grade so anyways I flew back
to Maryland to spend the summer with my
high school friends we actually ended up
having people ask this was probably the
best summer of my life I'm not gonna put
up pictures or anything for legal
reasons but I will tell you that we had
an excellent summer I did take a brief
break from my degeneracy in August to
get my wisdom teeth out during my
recovery in order to feel like slightly
less of a lump I went first thing for
the first time willingly not dragged
along by my sister and it turns out that
I kind of liked it I did my first thrift
ball and I started pre selling the
clothes online which is like a huge part
of my life right now
at the end of September I moved into my
first apartment well not mine
technically because I share it with five
other roles because rank is expensive
and i also bought my first car
am i kind of becoming in at all am I
doing this right maybe October was a
blur of thrifting adventures spooky
shenanigans and learning how to buy
groceries fix my car which promptly
broke right after I bought it and trying
not to completely die in LA traffic also
at this time I dropped my phone in the
toilet for the second time and the back
camera broke so photos are kind of
limited from here on out in November I
acted in my first play I'm not sure that
I was any good but I tried in December
finals slapped me right in the balls
I didn't leave my apartment for like two
weeks straight and was pulling
all-nighters
all the way until my flight that took me
back home to Maryland that pretty much
brings me full circle to present-day me
28 teens kind of appeared out of nowhere
like this sneaky little [ __ ]
that it is but welcome friend I hope we
have a good time together
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