Archive for September, 2008

Over the years I’ve had to part company with a few friends and many casual acquaintances.  Everyone has.  It’s an unavoidable part of life – you can’t stay in touch with everyone even if you want to.  Granted, some of the people I’ve lost touch with were because I made the decision to sever the ties and move on, but sometimes it was simply because we lost touch over time.  I’m now faced with the harsh reality that I’m soon going to have to say goodbye to a friend that I’m closer to than anyone else.  Not because either of us want to, but because he’s leaving the continent to start his family and take his life in a new direction.  It’s less than a year away, but I’m trying not to think about it just yet; because when I do, I feel like I’m losing one of the best people in my life right now.

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I remember the first time I ever really weighed myself back in P.E. in middle school, and the scale reading exactly 80 pounds.  I was lanky and awkward and oh so incredibly dorky, but I was also thin.  High school hit and my body matured and I gained some weight, though not in a bad way.  I was growing up and gaining some weight, but I was still thin.  And then college started.

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Over the past year or so I have endured a constant barrage of information from a friend regarding a certain series of books that have been out for quite a while now.  In preparation for the final installment of the series, she finally convinced me to read the first book of the series just to prove that she wasn’t crazy, and to prove to me that it really was as amazing as she had been claiming for so long.  With reluctance, I borrowed the first book, and thus began my downward spiral into “Twilight” oblivion.

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I sat down last night to write my first paper for my Master’s level management course, and it didn’t take me as long as I thought it would.  I wasn’t looking forward to doing the paper, but once I actually sat down and did the small amount of research necessary to write an informed essay, I found that the material was worth reading and the amount of self-evaluation needed to finish the paper off was enlightening.  But it was only after I finished spending an hour or so on this paper that I realized I had never put this kind of relaxed effort into high school.  And I couldn’t help but realize…what was I thinking?

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It’s been a long time since I’ve done any kind of consistent blogging, but I’m hoping that this will be a new step forward for me.  I’ve always enjoyed writing, and have had many blogs over the years.  I had a Xanga back when it was popular, then got help from a friend in designing my own ad-infested Tripod site, then moved on to posting on the social nightmare that is MySpace.  Each has been slightly more disastrous than the next, but I did it anyways because I wanted to put my thoughts out there for anyone to see.  Now it’s time for me to take another step forward, and to that effect I’ve purchased this domain.  I’ve been thinking about it for quite a while, and last week I decided to make it official and start something real.

I stay pretty busy between work, school, and trying to maintain some modicum of a social life, but I think these things will only serve to help me write more as opposed to preventing me from writing at all.  I have lots of opinions, and anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem whatsoever in voicing them.  Sometimes I’ll say something everyone can stand behind, and sometimes I’ll stand alone, but either way, I’ll be standing up for something.  I want to someday be a published writer, and I think this is a means to that end.  Only time will tell, and I’m willing to stare at the clock for as long as it takes.