Mini-Saga

I have an assignment from my creative arts class to write a story that's exactly fifty words--no more, no less. This is what I came up with.  ^___^

He dreams of a golden fire in the hearth, and wild golden hair, her pure-white smile, her hand in his, reading a book together, lost in a faerie realm, imaginations in harmony...

Raindrops on his skin bring the road back into focus, and he spurs his horse onward, homebound.

(I also posted this on deviantART: http://fav.me/d5xhaaq)

Perfection?

Does perfection mean that there are no flaws?

Or that there is nothing that can be done to make it better; that it's hit its upper limit of quality and cannot go further?

Would it be possible for something to be flawless, but still have room for improvement?  Could such a thing be called perfect?  If so, then what lies beyond perfection?

Spring Semester 2013

Wow, I'm writing a blog post.  It's been forever.

I'm taking some interesting classes this semester.  (Except for Calc II.  As good as I am at math, I'm feeling ready to be done with math classes.  Forever.  :P)  I have three honors classes:

• "Adventures in Mathematics".  Easy A and I get physical science credit (because I'm one science credit short!).  This is kind of a broad overview of the history and application of a bunch of different areas of math.  It's just high-school level math here.  *yawn*
• "Why Creativity Matters".  I guess the purpose of this class is to study and develop creativity?  and learn how to draw?  I enjoy it.  
• "Great Ideas of the West in the Classical and Medieval Eras: The Meanings of Life".  That's a mouthful.  We're reading and discussing literature all the way from Mesopotamia (earliest history) to the 1500s, focusing on what people thought the meaning of life was-- which is an absurdly ambiguous pursuit.  I love this class, though.  We get into deep philosophical discussion like what we had in my Socratic Seminar class at Maeser Preparatory Academy.  I missed that class so much.  ^^

And then I'm also taking Intro to Short Fiction.  I'm enjoying that class too.  ^^

Goodness, I have big ambitions.  I want to be producing content relatively frequently in several different places (here, deviantART, Facebook, Cloud in a Bubble, Heavens' Crossroads, Google+...) while working on other stories that might be publishable (like, as in physical novels, with paper  o__0) and making cosplays and going to college and creating video games.  Is this possible?  o.0  I'm going to find out.

well, that's all for now.  Good night, sleep tight, and don't get eaten by flying spaghetti monsters!

A Thing about Social Media

I don't know how many other people operate this way, but I'm only going to "like" a Facebook page if I can see that it's going to give me news feed content that I'm interested in looking at.  (If it's a page that's in the "interests" section in my profile (i.e. it's something I've "liked" in order to show off on my profile what I like, e.g. musicians, movies, etc.), I'll unsubscribe from their posts if I'm not interested in their noise.)

For example, a Facebook page for Twix.  I love the candy bar Twix.  I'm simply not interested in looking at goofy Twix-related Facebook posts--and the sad thing is, I didn't even look at the Twix page when I saw its ad because I've come to expect that kind of content from that kind of page.

Not everything needs a Facebook page.  You can probably expect that people who "like" the Twix page are people who are diehard fans of Twix already-- do they really need to be marketed to?

Desire

Once upon a time, I wrote a new blog post every day.  Then I took an arrow to the knee....

I wanna be blogging more often than I am.  It's not that I feel any obligation to other people--I'm fairly certain that nobody misses my posts.  Honestly, I get close to zero feedback on the stuff I push out to the blogspace.  I guess I just want to have something to show for all of the thinking that I do.  I guess I also want to feel like I'm brightening someone else's day with my thoughts and stories... well, let's take it one step at a time, eh?

Outward

Here's another personal update, and then I imagine I'll be getting into some more profound postings somewhat soon here.

I graduated high school at the end of May.  Anti-climactic seems to be the word for it, seeing as I forsook high school after my junior year and completed my first full-time year of college in mid-April.  I did feel accomplished when I had that diploma in my hands afterwards, but I'm afraid that what I'm always going to remember is a slight irked feeling at having to wear that silly square hat.

I got a job!  I start digitizing aircraft repair manuals on Monday.  My early college teacher was so proud of me when I told her that I got a job with an engineering company right after graduating from our engineering-focused high school.  I hadn't even thought of it that way.  I was just glad to have a job so that now I can pay for textbooks, video games and a good part of my mission.  I'm intending to make my career out of storytelling, not engineering.  (For all I know, I might end up spending enough time in the engineering department to call it a career.  I'm not picky as long as I get what I want in the end.)

Speaking of mission, it's getting more and more real now.  I still have about a year before I set off (give or take a few months, perhaps), but I've started attending a mission prep class, and I've talked to my bishop about moving up in the priesthood, and per his request I got my hair cut short.  (And since I'm sure some of you will wonder; I'm thinking England and Japan would be cool places to go, but what do I know?  I'm sure the Lord will send me to whichever mission he knows would be my absolute favorite.  That seems to be what happened to every returned missionary I've listened to.)

The oddest feeling I've experienced lately actually comes with the thought that I have now beat every released Kingdom Hearts game save one.  It's been easily less than two years since I picked up the first one.  Now I just have Birth By Sleep left before Dream Drop Distance comes out next month.  I love those games.

Oh, and I made that blog that I mentioned in my last post.  It's called Without Money, Without Price.  ^__^

Aaand that's all for now!

Coming Down the Mountain

Hello, it's been a while.

I've been posting over at deviantART somewhat more regularly, although there's hardly anyone there who reads those posts.  These past few months have been rough, and it was easier to write more random and personal stuff over there.  It felt more appropriate, I suppose.  deviantART is very much a creative, be-yourself site, whereas I still haven't entirely figured out what this blog is supposed to feel like.  xD

Now that school's out, I'm hoping I can devote some extra time to those story sites that I've linked to up there in the navigation bar (Heavens' Crossroads, Velvel the Venturer, and Cloud in a Bubble), and I want to write a book too.  And make a video game, and make money...

I've been filling out job applications for three weeks and I'm sick of it. XD  hopefully it won't be much longer.

By the way... I've been considering making a scripture study blog.  That will be the sixth blog that I try to maintain (including the story sites and the webcomic), but it'll be fun, eh?  X3  Got any thoughts?