One Year Later
Hello, everyone!
After a year of languishing -- far too long -- I am resurrecting this journal. My creative side has been idle far too long. I have no one to blame but myself, but World of Warcraft certainly helped me out on that matter! Alas.
News. News!
Financially I am better off now. I am working two jobs now, once again at Kroger as a cashier, and secondarily as a transcriber of Elizabeth Stoddard's newspaper articles. I am still very poor, and my possessions are scattered, but my friends have been great help and my family as well. My mother has moved to Florida, so for now I am living with my father and his wife for the summer. They've both been very kind.
Meg has also been of great help to me, as well as her family. They are providing me with a home while I take my last semester of college, August to December. I had a premature graduation ceremony (photos coming on Facebook, oh yes!) and received a placeholder placard for my future diploma. I have been blessed on all sides.
My cooking skills wane, wax, and wane again. I hope to actually eat healthy one of these days, so I am working toward that goal.
I recently acquired a Twitter account.
My classes for the fall are promising. Creative writing (short fiction), Shakespeare, "Female Gothic," and a "Queer Theory"-themed English capstone. I hope to prepare myself for the semester this summer by reading and researching ahead of time, work permitting. Therefore, I am flexing my creativity muscles, reading ahead, and researching as much as possible. I understand that "Queer Theory" as a name has fallen out of favor from the very person who coined the term. Is it stuck, or can a new term be crafted? Has one been already?
With the prospect of graduation looming, once again my focus has been redirected toward "what do you want to do?" The answers I have given to that have all been short-term: "find a job." The idea is to pay off my bills, get a decent place to live, et cetera. But what of my long-term goals? I want to define what I do by who I am -- not define who I am by what I do.
While there are many long-term goals I think about, nothing sounds so appealing to me as my old dream of being a published writer -- a dream almost as old as I am. However, there's no such thing as a long-term goal that fulfills itself. I have to work toward it!
To that end, I have given myself a number of short-term goals, all designed to exercise my dormant creativity. I enrolled in the fiction-writing class. I am resurrecting this journal. I will order a replacement digital pen for my tablet to replace the one I lost a year ago. I now carry pen and paper with me at all times. Even in recreation I am choosing to play games that encourage creativity rather than repetition.
I must rebuild my neural network of synapses and neurons to get my creative juices flowing freely once more. I remained inert for too long.
After a year of languishing -- far too long -- I am resurrecting this journal. My creative side has been idle far too long. I have no one to blame but myself, but World of Warcraft certainly helped me out on that matter! Alas.
News. News!
Financially I am better off now. I am working two jobs now, once again at Kroger as a cashier, and secondarily as a transcriber of Elizabeth Stoddard's newspaper articles. I am still very poor, and my possessions are scattered, but my friends have been great help and my family as well. My mother has moved to Florida, so for now I am living with my father and his wife for the summer. They've both been very kind.
Meg has also been of great help to me, as well as her family. They are providing me with a home while I take my last semester of college, August to December. I had a premature graduation ceremony (photos coming on Facebook, oh yes!) and received a placeholder placard for my future diploma. I have been blessed on all sides.
My cooking skills wane, wax, and wane again. I hope to actually eat healthy one of these days, so I am working toward that goal.
I recently acquired a Twitter account.
My classes for the fall are promising. Creative writing (short fiction), Shakespeare, "Female Gothic," and a "Queer Theory"-themed English capstone. I hope to prepare myself for the semester this summer by reading and researching ahead of time, work permitting. Therefore, I am flexing my creativity muscles, reading ahead, and researching as much as possible. I understand that "Queer Theory" as a name has fallen out of favor from the very person who coined the term. Is it stuck, or can a new term be crafted? Has one been already?
With the prospect of graduation looming, once again my focus has been redirected toward "what do you want to do?" The answers I have given to that have all been short-term: "find a job." The idea is to pay off my bills, get a decent place to live, et cetera. But what of my long-term goals? I want to define what I do by who I am -- not define who I am by what I do.
While there are many long-term goals I think about, nothing sounds so appealing to me as my old dream of being a published writer -- a dream almost as old as I am. However, there's no such thing as a long-term goal that fulfills itself. I have to work toward it!
To that end, I have given myself a number of short-term goals, all designed to exercise my dormant creativity. I enrolled in the fiction-writing class. I am resurrecting this journal. I will order a replacement digital pen for my tablet to replace the one I lost a year ago. I now carry pen and paper with me at all times. Even in recreation I am choosing to play games that encourage creativity rather than repetition.
I must rebuild my neural network of synapses and neurons to get my creative juices flowing freely once more. I remained inert for too long.