I need to express what I am doing here. I don’t really want this to be a famous blog or anything. I would just like to remember some things a little more formally than I am used to. I have grand intentions of making this somewhere where I can publish worthwhile prose but I have to conquer my two huge problems in writing. It takes me hours to write something that would take a normal person 20 minutes and I write like I am a 70 year old man who dreams of the days when judges had white wigs or MLK was a person instead of a boulevard.

I’ll figure these things out eventually. (The previous sentence used to be ‘I’ll be addressing these concerns eventually’…see what I’m talking about; I’m George Washington’s pen.) Practice is the only way to make yourself better at something and I can get myself dedicated to things when I want to.

I am now a real life working class citizen, getting up every day to increase the GDP of our wonderful US of A. I have five jobs and hopefully that will soon change to just one or two.

I am reading a lot nowadays. I finished 1984, The Arabian Nights, all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and the Importance of Being Earnest, in about a month. I just started Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield yesterday. This was the first book that my dad ever read in english, when he was about 10 years old. His old English grandfather diction makes so much more sense to me now. The only problem with this discovery is that it annuls the idea that my writing style’s seriousness could have stemmed from the same cause as my father’s speech. I never read these books when I was younger and god only knows what my great christian school taught me. (Although, I must admit that the ‘Literature Department,’ if you can call it that, was run very competently.)

Gone are the days of “I had a muffin today” posts.

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