It’s been a few months since I last wrote! Since then, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind with a new job, new places to explore, new friends to make, and hobbies to get back into- like Archery! As time has passed, it’s been becoming more and more clear that this was the right move to make., even if on occasion I find myself asking if it was.
Since May, I’ve:
Shot in three archery competitions, and placed 2nd in one and 3rd in the other two (after only picking a bow back up in May and the first shoot was in June!) I’ve been able to reconnect with people I knew in college as well since luckily some of them are still in the sport- and are going to help me retune my bow thank goodness.
Had my 4th article published in the Humboldt Historian (“The Curious Case of Wing Hing”, which you can check out over here).
Started class at Sacramento State, the last class I need to be able to get into the graduate program there. The class is project-based, so I’ll be (of course) doing something about Eureka’s Chinese population. I’m looking at researching Chinese owned businesses and Chinese workplaces in Eureka. Even thought I’m only a short way into the research, a few very interesting things have come up so far. I’ll likely write an article on it, so stay tuned.
Made some new friends! I’ve started a tradition with one of them to check out restaurants that feature foods from places outside of the US. We tried to pick a place that had food neither of us had tried before and the only thing we could come up with was Eastern European. It was really darn good. Sour cream with everything! I also hosted a tea party for something like 24 people in a park with my vintage tea cups, and everything. That was a lot of fun. I’ll be doing another one for Halloween in October and am really looking forward to it. I also split 10 rolls of sushi at a place with three other people and holy cow I think it will be a while before I eat sushi again because that was A LOT.
Read every day for 125 days (and counting). The local library here had a reading challenge where if you read a certain number of books over the course of the summer you’d get a tote bag and a free book. I read every day, won the book and tote bag and just kept on going. My stats are kinda crazy- 6472 minutes, 5554 pages, 26 books read (thanks Beanstack for keeping my count going) . Wowza!
I’ve also been working on the sign that will accompany the Clarke Museum’s “The Sun Set Twice on the People that Day” Mural by the late Brian Tripp and the Karuk Mural Team. The Mural went up in 2021 but a sign never got made- I had been working on it when I moved away, but luckily the Clarke team has given me the green light to do the footwork on putting it together. Perhaps that will be complete by the beginning of 2023, but I’m not sure when it would be hung up due to budget and all. You can help support that project by sending some money over to the Clarke Museum with the note “Mural Sign”.
Summer flew by and I’m looking forward to a more restful fall- I was go-go-go most days and need a break! The fall and winter is when I’m more of a homebody, cozied up under a pile of blankets with tea and a book and perhaps some more research- I was recently asked to help with some introductory research for the Folsom Historical Society’s coming Chinese Heritage Museum, which is really exciting. I look forward to digging more into that in the coming months.
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Talk to you soon 🙂
Katie Buesch 