Why a blog? Well, I'd like to practice writing and typing. My reasons are far from altruistic. I'd like to be a writer or journalist some day, and the best practice involves being able to write, compose, and type on demand those thoughts that are swirling around in the mind in order to put them in a format others can read, understand, and maybe even appreciate. My weakness is typing and constantly editing myself even as I type. The struggle for perfection and the procrastination tied to the fear of releasing anything less than such is truly an artistic double-whammy. But then again, true art is never really completed but simply abandoned after time, or so I've heard.
I also don't have the moxy to keep a writing deadline without doing myself harm by way of days without sleep and stress. Any future successes for me will involve my getting better at keeping deadlines. And which deadlines are the hardest to keep? Why, the ones you impose on yourself. So I start with my work cut out for me. Wouldn't have it any other way.
In my mind I have the image of a J. Jonah Jameson-type character picking up a phone to some poor writer and screaming, "I need 5,000 words on this new sushi joint that just opened by this Friday. Your plane leaves tonight!" followed by "Just get it done!" in response to any stammering questions for the writer. One day maybe I'll have the "problems" of travel to far off places and eating/drinking/viewing/meeting interesting things/people and having to write about them in some time and word-count constraint, but for now a blog is good. Plus, I have to start somewhere. I need writing samples before I get that cushy restaurant review job on the coast of Spain or that product review job that comes with free samples.
I've been journaling on paper for the better part of a year, and been a pen/pencil fetishist for as long as I can remember. So I plan to use the blog for the purpose of talking about those things as well as whatever it is I'm reading, listening to, and collecting. In short, whatever it is that I obsess over and use in my day-to-day goings on. I get most of my swag on eBay, and I'm a pretty experienced buyer with a feedback of over 1050 (with an actual + feedback count of over 2500). This past December I started selling stuff on eBay after graduating from graduate school. It's helped pay bills as I look for a job (more on that later). With my seller account, I have a feedback score of over 450 (over 600 +). There's never a dull moment when you're a seller on eBay. Especially when you sell military toys, japanese robot toys, and Starbucks items like I do.
This year I'm actively trying to lose weight. I "broke my knee" last year and tore 2 ligaments. Because of my weight problem, things haven't been right since, but time and time again I've been told that getting down to a normal weight would definitely improve things. Not sure if I want to keep a log of my weight, but I plan to discuss any progress or lack thereof at least once a week. I'm also getting interested in food, funnily enough. Good food, and what it entails. I don't want to be malnourished and fat at the same time, so I've been reading what I can about what's considered good and trying to change the way I eat, subtle changes though they may be at the moment.
As I look for a job, try to lose weight, and buy/sell stuff on eBay I think blogging is the free kind of therapy I'll need to either distract myself from my life at times as well as to rant about it at other times. I'm a pretty keep-to-myself kind of guy and don't like to trouble my friends and family with windy rants and whines any more than I have to. And so I turn to the semi-anonymous blog for solace.
The Internet keeps demonstrating to me how it helps people communicate freely and openly to come together from all around the world. With your permission, I think I'd also like to try.
Until next time.
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