Leave me alone, I’m sick.

Taking a break from a script I’ve been working on for my script writing class to get in my daily blog entry. Yes, yes, I know my dates would have you believe I’ve missed a day, but I promise you I haven’t. I just haven’t changed the time zone I’m on in my settings. I have to figure out how I’m supposed to do that…

All I can really think to write about right now is that my uncle may not make it through the night. I don’t really know what else to say about that, other than the obvious: It’s very sad. Any prayers and well-wishes are appreciated, even if they’re not left here on the blog. That seems kind of weird to me, to be asking that so early on in this endeavor. But timing is timing, no matter how bad it may be, and I guess I believe that as rotten as we may be sometimes… There’s still something inside of us that will help us emphasize with others. But enough. I’m too tired to get into some weird philosophical pondering right now. I just hope he lives through the night. A miraculous turn-around would be nice.

I’ve also been thinking about the implications of pursuing writing as a career. It’s a difficult one, you know that? Sometimes the thought of it scares me. What if I couldn’t make it? But of course, that’s why it’s always good to have something to fall back on. For me, I think that might be website design. I suppose that’s the beauty of and what attracted me to creating a blog: It’s both. It’s a place to write, it’s a place to work on Ye Olde Coding Skills. Which reminds me, I need to work on my layout. I just don’t have the time for it right now, between being sick, going to school, working on homework, and work. It doesn’t help that all I want to do is sleep, either.

I’m kind of disappointed in this post. It isn’t turning out the way I wanted it to. Oh well. I blame it on the sickness. They’ll get better. I promise. Or at least… I hope.

NaBloPoMo

That abbreviation makes me laugh. But I’ve joined in on National Blog Posting Month, or NaBloPoMo. After I wrote in my last entry that this was to be my own version of NaNoWriMo, I remembered that this time last year, I came across an group of people who were using November for the same thing. I don’t really remember why I didn’t join last year — I think I was too late for signing up or something. But this month, I’m going to try for it. One post every day for the month of November. That’s all I have to do. So I’ll really have to push myself, because I know it can be hard to post every single day. Some days you can just be lacking in any sort of inspiration, some days you can be so busy that by the time you have a moment to do anything, all you want to do is relax.

I’ve decided this was a good idea because (hopefully) this will jump start my blogging career. If I have to write every day, then I’ll be closer to figuring out this whole blogging thing, as well as learning what the heck it is I’m even planning on writing about on this thing. Really, it’s just a writing exercise. It’s my way of putting myself out there; it’s like my first real foray into the world of a writer. So I suppose that’s what this is all about for me in the end: It’s a learning experience. Learning how to write, learning how to connect with an audience, learning how to get myself out there. So let’s see where this goes.

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Subjects are the part I have the most trouble with.

Finally, at last, I’m feeling better in every sense of the word. I know this sounds bad, but being sick has been really nice in a way. It allowed me to get some rest. Working and schooling seven days a week for over a month without any kind of break gets to be too much. I’m sure it’s what helped lead up to my getting sick, but it has definitely been nice to have the down time. As soon as I’m feeling better physically, I think I’m going to be ready to go at it again. I can tell because I already feel more energetic about things. Energized emotionally, at least.

Like this blog. I must admit I’m a little unsure about this whole thing. I don’t know what my aim with this is, other than writing exercise. But while a lot of blogs have some sort of theme to them, such as sports, hobbies, politics, etc., this one doesn’t. Not really. I guess I just wanted to see if I could do it. I like WordPress so far. It’s more professional than, say, livejournal, but doesn’t charge like other places. I think I’ve found my place, so we’ll see where this goes.

In other news, I like how the Enchanted commercial (trailor?) uses the music from Hocus
Pocus in it.