how to be ok at stuff

If you haven’t yet read Warren Ellis ad Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan, you’re missing out in a major way. Hunter S. Thompson shuffled right on out of his mortal coils and on to the great buffalo in the sky in the middle of my senior year. I remember a teacher I had reading the announcement aloud [...]

Yeash! (this is my happy-dance, Sean-Connery-esque yes, my happy happy yes because I have made it to and through another goal day in November, the novel month, as in fiction, as in Yeash!) So forgive my overwrought happiness. It’s a side-effect of this pursuit. Oh how I briefly mourn (before again being distracted by my [...]

I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year, and I’m already enjoying the journey. I’m using a tool called Write or Die see http://writeordie.drwicked.com/, that is kicking my ass in the good way that makes words come out of it. I’ve had so much success with it already that I’m thinking about [...]

Green has always been one of my favorite colors. I like all greens, but kelly green in particular has, for the last seven or eight years, been my favorite. As it turns out, green is a fantastic color to evoke positive feelings, and in particular to combat anxiety. Wikipedia, being my constant companion, helps me [...]

I’ve been making big-picture adjustments of purpose and meaning in my life, as well as trying to shift my day-to-day activities such that I can be conscious of the various things in my life for which I am grateful. The job I mentioned applying for several posts ago, I ended up getting, and eventually, quitting. [...]