Whoa now

OK, so it's been about 500 years since I updated this blog, but State's losing badly to Wake Forest (we're at the half now) and I'm trying to think of other things to do than write my Shakespeare paper.

I haven't written anything here since I started grad school, and I can conclusively say that it's "the heat." All my reservations about staying at NCSU have basically been turned around, I've been enjoying working at the Technician, classes are going really well (solid As so far... holla) and I've managed to stick to some positive lifestyle-change type things -- people who've known me for a while will know what I'm talking about.

I've been pretty busy, and I've discovered that I *really* like being busy. I've been attacking the novel with newfound discipline. I dunno, it all feels pretty good.

It's kind of been weird drifting away from my old group of friends, though I do still see some of them on occasion. But it's been awesome meeting tons of new people that are into the same sort of stuff I'm into. It makes me feel a lot less weird. For the first time I actually feel like I know where I'm going in life, and it's not too shabby.

OK, wait a second. I don't understand advertising. A commercial on ESPNU just showed a Sasquatch attack a dude for some beef jerky. No Sasquatch I know would go that far for some damn pemmican. I think we should be a lot more worried about Sasquatches learning how to split the atom instead of so cautiously guarding our jerked beef.

Sorry, random aside. Anyway, I've basically decided to start blogging again once in a while, just to write weird shit like the above when I feel like it. That used to be a lot of fun, and frankly I didn't set a great tone for this blog when I started it last year. I was in the middle of some serious post-graduation hating-my-lackey-job ennui, and I apologize for the emo tone of some of the stuff I wrote back then. But you got to go through it, man, you got to go through it.

The novel is at 70 pgs or so now, 40 of those having been written within the last month and a half. Like I said, I've actually gotten disciplined about it, and after having shown it to a bunch of people that I trust and learning that they do not, in fact, think I'm insane for working on it, I've sort of got a newfound interest in that and creative writing in general. I wrote a few good things early in undergrad and then decided to rest on my laurels for a couple of years, but I'm not gonna fall into that trap again.

I feel kinda all over the place right now, which, probably, is why I decided to post. The TV is now showing a commercial for an "Endless Pool." Has anyone ever seen these? It's seriously the most ridiculous thing ever conceived. A water treadmill. Ju crasy.

I predict I will post on this blog mostly when I have something due within the next two to three days, and much more rarely when I don't have a reason for procrastination. Check in a few days before Dec. 6th, if you're so inclined.