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Continue reading →: Goodbye, Georgia. Hello, Hollywood!Woohoo, I’ve made it, y’all! Today is my last day in Augusta, and I’m never looking back! This town can literally and figuratively suck my dust. There will be no love lost through the rearview window. My moving pods arrived on Friday morning, and by Friday afternoon I had my…
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Continue reading →: Mapping the move to Cali.Thing have so fallen so perfectly into place over the past couple of days that this move is shaping up to be an absolute dream. ✊ 🪵 Since my last post I have crossed all my t’s and signed on the dotted line. I signed my lease and completed all…
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Continue reading →: One month (and counting)Time has been ticking away and I have been BUSY! My apartment has been completely packed up for weeks already, but I finally have a place to lay my head in Long Beach! Remember a couple of posts back when I was raving about how much I wanted to visit…
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Continue reading →: Happy Mothers’ Day!I wanted to take a minute this Mothers’ Day to celebrate and appreciate my two favorite moms, who also happen to be my two best friends. This is just a quick blog post, but the love and appreciation that I have for this little family could fill a library. I’ll…
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Continue reading →: Five things I’m most excited to do and see in Long BeachThe semester is over, my apartment is packed, and in about 80 days I will set off a journey to Long Beach, California where I am entirely prepared to live my best and happiest life. As I begin to search for housing, I’ve been doing my research on the area,…
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Continue reading →: That’s a wrap on Augusta UniversityWell, it’s official, y’all! My time at Augusta University has finally come to a close. I cleaned out my office last week, I submitted grades last night, and I turned in my keys earlier today. I hustled to get it all done this week because I wanted to put my…
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Continue reading →: Moving update: T-minus 3 months and countingMy time at Augusta University is finally coming to a wrap, and with fewer than three months to go before I set foot in Long Beach I’m slowly getting my ducks into order. The first of those ducks involved moving out of my office on campus, which I just finished…
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Continue reading →: “That my best friend, she a real bad bitch”Those who know me well know that my time in Augusta has been a solitary one. While I’ve come across pockets of queerness in the area, as a whole I have found the community conservative and uninviting. I haven’t made many friends here, but drag introduced me to two of…
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Continue reading →: The last quick trip homeGoodbye (again), Athens; Hello, Theodore Gray As golf enthusiasts and athletes flocked to Augusta for the 2024 Masters Tournament, I fled for the foothills of Ohio, in what will likely be my last trip to Athens for a very long time. Augusta University was closed for its Spring Break, so…
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Continue reading →: Go Beach!I am beyond excited to announced that I have accepted an assistant professor position in California State University Long Beach’s journalism and public relations department! I will move out West this summer and begin teaching at the university in August. I’m so grateful for my time at Augusta University, but…
Hello, I’m Ash! I am an assistant professor in the Journalism and Public Relations Department at California State University, Long Beach. This blog serves as a personal love letter to Long Beach, as I find my community and tread toward tenure.
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