If my brain were a website, this post would be the site map.
SLEEPING
Recently I've had a tendency to wake up in the wee hours of the morning spouting random yet relatively profound statements, such as "Monopoly's biggest flaw is that it operates on an inadequate representation of the current cashflow system utilized in our modern economy, through the elimination of certain key elements such as debt and interest...ZZzzz."
WRITING
I've been trying to make reality out of an idea I've been chewing on lately...it's a novelette--a bite-sized piece of literary indulgence, if you will. In short it's my re-imagining of a classic and well-known tale about an Italian plumber's adventures battling a giant angry turtle-esque creature.
READING
Now that I'm temporarily done with school and have earned some semblance of a degree, I intend to spend the following semester catching up on some non-mandatory reading. I have a list of books, but I just need to put myself on a schedule to make sure they all actually get read in time.
DRAWING
I need to draw more to keep myself from getting too rusty before art school starts in August. When I have an intention to draw something specific, I'm never satisfied with the result; however, when I'm just sketching whimsically while half paying attention to something else (usually someone talking at me), the stuff that comes out is decent.
PAINTING
I started painting something about a month ago, but I quit because it looked like butt. Not a butt, just...butt-tastic. Y'know what I mean? Anyway, I've had some ideas of what to do to salvage it, but I just can't seem to make the time to get my butt out there and paint it. But I am getting tired of looking at its butt-ness, so I need to just do it.
CHRISTIAN-ING
My faith has definitely gone through its share of challenges this year. I've been very open to a lot of new ideas, and it has been a spiritual workout comparing everything to what I know about God and the bible. Especially when it's comparing the bible to the bible, which is a lot more intellectually demanding than it sounds. I've got some short- and long-term goals about what I'm going to do to cultivate my faith this coming year, rather than just maintain it.
MUSIC-ING
This "-ing" thing is going downhill fast. I am still teaching guitar on Saturdays, and I'm still making 40 bucks an hour for it. It's good to have a weekly refresher to remind myself that I'm actually a guitarist. However, as of late, my time at the store has been spent either teaching guitar, or teaching myself how to play the songs from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on piano. I can do all of the first episode, which is apparently only impressive to Whedonites.
BLOGGING
I'm always thinking of things to write, and over time I've developed quite a filter. Most of the things I think of are not things I can imagine anyone else being interested in. I write those too, I just don't publish them. I try to blog often, to give my racing brain an outlet, and always write as if I'm some kind of columnist who gets paid for it. But I always wonder if my posts are as interesting to others as they are to me.
WORKING
My work situation is fluid. I say that because it's always changing. And because it would look cool in a lava lamp. For better or for worse, it will be changing again at the end of May, provided all goes as planned. We're about to make a big life change, and I really hope and pray that my work situation will be solid throughout the process.
PLAYING
I know that I get addicted to video games very easily. Instead of trying to exercise self control (psh), my wife and I have agreed that whenever I buy a game that I know will suck me in, I am allowed to be addicted to it for a month, and then it must be shelved, only to be played infrequently and casually. But knowing that I will be cut off in a month makes the gameplay period that much more intense, because I have to beat the entire game in a month or else I will die.
TALKING
I've realized that I talk a lot. And I have a lot of opinions on things that don't matter. I find that those two facts converge and create the reality in which I live every single day: I speak my mind on every topic I have the least bit of knowledge about. One of those things is grammar, which is why the previous sentence is killing me. But I find that I learn so much more when I listen and let others speak.
LISTENING
My taste in music is changing rapidly. Recently I created a Pandora station based on Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, Kate Micucci, and the band She & Him. Somehow the station miraculously changed its name to "Chick Songs for Dudes." I'm okay with that. I also have a mix based on Explosions in the Sky, The Postal Service, and Playradioplay. I had no idea who any of those artists were a year ago, and I will probably be listening to something entirely different another year from now.
That's all for now.
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