Life

“Life is what happens when you’re making other plans” – John Lennon

“What do you want from life
An Indian guru to show you the inner light
What do you want from life
A meaningless love affair
with a girl that you met tonight”- The Tubes

“Life! Don't talk to me about life.”- Marvin the Paranoid Android

Our life is what we choose to make and so with it. It’s working 60 hours a week or it’s sleeping those 60 hours away instead. It’s following your dream and becoming a success, finding true love, being a nerdfighter or being a fighter against nerds (hopefully VERY few of the latter are reading this).

Last week, as I contemplated the upcoming replacement of my calendar, I also thought upon what I have done over the last year, and what I probably should have done as well. Did I work to follow my dream of being a successful writer? Was I able to find that one brilliant position at the library I wanted to work for the rest of my life? While finding such a job position has been difficult, no matter how I could approach it, I came to the realization that due to such strange hours of employment, my writing has fallen to the deepest reaches of my mind possibly only tread upon during those bizarre moments in life sitcom writers make episodes about when they’re forced to produce something immediately within the hour- otherwise known as the flashback.

I had to excuse for such actions. A large number of my friends, as well as those I follow on twitter, find time weekly—if not daily—to blog about topics on their minds, and they have more responsibilities than a sketch artist has broken pencils. If they can find time to keep up their authorial presence, what reason do I have not to.

As a result, this blog has formed.

When this becomes a regular production, you may find me discussing a variety of topics—possibly what’s happening in my life, what’s happening in the world around myself and others. This may also be an outlet to discuss something that has shaped my life a great deal- pop culture and literature.

In the dark days following the Y2K scare, I was presented with the choice for my future. I felt at that point in my career that writing was was future and jumped in to studies of the field of journalism. Now, this of course did not work out as I had planned, discovering what the first year of college is really like. While it was not the same as everybody else I knew, it did provide a difficult choice, as the grades I would receive prevented me from pursuing such degree.

While this saddened me, to this day I do not regret shifting my focus to English however, as it has provided such great friends I would never have met otherwise, as well as a love for great English literature, the books that hold it, and the buildings that house those.

While this blog details such things, I hope those who begin to follow this will also leave their own insight, possibly proving ideas for blogs to come.

So hop in the TARDIS and take the ride with me. Lets spend twenty-eleven together, and see where this blog will go.