Mental Purgatory

So I stumbled upon this site a while back called NaNoWriMo.org which basically stands for “National Novel Writing Month.” The purpose of the site/organization is to help get writers to finish a novel. To do this, writers are tasked with starting a novel on November 1st and finishing it by November 30th. You can’t start [...]

As I prepare to move to Norwalk, CT, I’m slowly tackling all the burdens of moving. Recently, I’ve been dealing with the Cable/Internet services, which has been… well… a pain in the ass. So I figured I would start my moving thoughts with these gripes.
Internet
Unfortunately, there’s no getting around this one. I live and breathe [...]

I recently reread Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower. I emphasize the reread part because most books, upon a second reading, are good, but they’re like visiting an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time – A lot is missing from the experience but you have a great time because it [...]

So lately I’ve been running high on emotion what with graduating from school and starting life anew and all that hooplah. So laying out in the grass last night, I started writing and saw that the narrative was really getting caught up in that emotion. With this in mind, I started thinking of ways I [...]

So I’ve been away for a while, largely because I was taking care of this whole graduation from college thing. Apparently, graduating, celebrating graduation, and moving home/moving family takes a lot more time than I’d expected it too. Still, I have proof that this time has been put to good use.

Over the next few weeks, [...]

“Today, I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied.”
C.S. Lewis book, Til We Have Faces, reads [...]

So this post goes in every which direction and is kind of boring, but the general theme is online voting.
The first item is the Warped Tour’s Battle of the Bands. Hardly anything I care about, definitely not my kind of music, but all the same, it’s something I’m going to bring up. Why? My friend’s [...]

I recently had the opportunity to go to a Fall Out Boy concert with opening acts All Time Low, Hey Monday, Cobra Starship and Metro Station. As a visitor to this blog, you probably know that this is not my kind of music at all. However, I was taking my sister and so, I figured [...]