Writing
The question I ask myself at 6:34am on June 23, 2010, is: Would writing a book be something I could do? Non-fiction? Fiction?
Why am I even contemplating this? I'm not a writer. I'm not a person who can write a consistent story and keep going until I'm done. I have no training, no experience. Nothing.
Getting involved
I've been at GVSU for three and a half years now. It's really crazy to think about for me. Three and a half years of knowledge, partying, friends, enemies, good times, and bad times. So much stuff.
Although the main goal of going to college is to ultimately get a degree in something and use that degree to get some high paying job and blah blah blah, I have to say that, when it comes down to it, getting involved outside of academics was the best choice I could have ever made at GVSU.
Three fantastic things have come out of me getting involved:
- I've met and kept many great friends
- I've created something I am overly proud of despite it's many flaws
- That would be my TV show, 'Jeff & Mike Write A Comic Book'
- I've discovered how much I like to talk to groups of people, especially those I'm comfortable with
Welcome to the new year
2010. Welcome.
So. This year began with high hopes. D&D with some friends, then blammo: My house got robbed. Not like "100% everything gone" robbed, but more like "we're taking your video games and probably coming back for more" robbed. $2400 worth of stuff taken in a two hour timeframe. Yeah. We filed a police report, got some finger prints taken around the house and were told to tighten security.
The next day after not sleeping, I, along with everyone but one of my room mates, got the fuck out of dodge. You can't call somewhere you live your house if you don't feel safe sleeping there.
Now, I'm currently residing at my parents house looking to sublease my room as well as all the other vacant rooms in the house. If you know anyone willing to live in a cheap house in the south-east side of Grand Rapids, let me know.
As for now: I'm just looking to find somewhere to live. Allendale looks good, but it all depends on if I can find somewhere and afford it. (My buddy Brian and I are looking towards the trailer park just across from GVSU)
Let's just say these last few days have been crazy. Lack of sleep, too much sleep, breakfasts made of turkey-jerky and cigarettes plus D&D. Here's to hoping this year can only go upwards.
I'd also like to thank everyone on Twitter who were supportive of everyone at the house. We all really appreciated it.
For now, I'm looking forward to just going back to school and getting back into a somewhat regular schedule. I'm keeping a positive attitude in that sense.
Now, back to my Degrassi marathon on TeenNick. Man I'm a sucker for this stuff.
It’s the last post of the decade
It's December 30, 2009.
At 7:58am.
I've only been up since 7pm yesterday. Should I sleep? Maybe. We'll see.
Anyways.
This year's been a good one I'd say. I've had some fuck ups, some mistakes and some misfortunes. I've had some awesome times, made new friends, and have smiled more than I have in a long, long while. Lots of shit has gone down.
What to say for the first decade of the millennium? Not too shabby. I'm apart of that generation who came from 28K internet to 2Mbs internet. We've seen the birth of mass video streaming (ie. YouTube) and Twitter and MySpace. Comic books almost died and somehow made their way back to being amazing. We grew up with BitTorrent and the smart phone. We've created a new style and form of speak (I'm talking about 1337 and lol's and such). We've made phone conversation's pointless. We made being smart a cool thing and being geeky a thing of fashion. We made Digg and Facebook and Reddit and Twitter the way to get news. We made Google. We made LOLcats. We made 4chan. We made Photoshop a regular thing. We made sci-fi even cooler than it already was. We turned the year long trend into the week long trend. We made over communication a daily routine. We made the music industry cry and distributed petabytes of information in the blink of an eye. We've done this and more than I can think of, yet we've only just begun to grow up. It's been a crazy 10 years to say the least*.
Me personally... well, I'll say this decade has had it's fun. More than I can remember and some I'd like to forget. Next year only brings more complicated and fantastic parts of life: growing up, prospects of graduating college, being with my (new and fantastic) girlfriend, Katherine, more D&D, more comic books, more hobbies and habits and emotions. We'll see how it goes.
As I do every year since, well, probably 2005 or so, I don't plan on setting resolutions. I feel no need to. There's no sense in setting goals for the year to come that will most likely not flourish. I'll set them as they come as I always do.
I can hope though.
I can hope for a dream job, good times with friends, good drinks and stories and jokes. For survival and laughs. For good thinking and good travel. For good fortune and good luck. I can hope for all sorts of things, and I will every day.
But all and all, 2009 was a good year. I tip my hat to it and to the rest of the first decade of the millennium. It's been fun.
* yes everything there is nerdy/tech related but that's me and that's what I know...
