So... what's the deal with Caivilo?

Hey, this is Liv. Saying that yes, I still like to write, and no this isn't going to be my structured writing space!

Before I post an influx of new entries over the next few months (using this space as both a dumping ground for my Notes app musings and an online diary of sorts) I just wanted to share a quick life update.

Last December (2024), I started grad school. After taking three years off following a tumultuous undergrad experience, I began pursuing my MS in Information and Library Science. Shortly after finishing my first graduate course (a short, accelerated winter term), the spring semester began, and life… went downhill. My dad, who had been sick for a decade, passed away. Around the same time, my boss, ever incompetent, started demanding that I lay off student workers while picking up extra responsibilities like covering extra open hours, etc.

But despite all of that, 2025 has had its ups and downs.

My girlfriend and I celebrated our one-year anniversary in August. I hit the three-quarters mark of my library science degree and am tentatively applying either to another master’s program for this upcoming fall—or seeing if I can continue on and pursue my Ph.D. in Information Science at the same university.

I’ve also decided to keep this blog solely as a personal, online diary of sorts. In pursuing my writing and storytelling interests, I’ll be launching Out of Circ, a (unsurprisingly) library-inspired newsletter and blog where I’ll discuss queer living, life, and everything in between. If you want the occasional life update, you can still keep up with me here!

(I’ll also be republishing some older writings that I still like—either to reference on the new blog or to give them a bit of polish.) But for the most part, this will remain my low-stakes, once-a-month update space for life stuff!