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!

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?

Rebeginning

I have decided to scrap the original purpose of this blog, because it wasn't motivating me like I thought it would.  I am going to target this blog towards everyone who finds me interesting, and I will simply be me.  I originally intended to write about really deep topics, but now I will talk about random ideas I have along any lines (as shallow or deep as they may be) and whatever else I find interesting.  I hope y'all have as much fun reading it as I will writing it!

Putting Ideas into Pixels (Part 2)

I got back to Heavens' Crossroads like I said I would in my last post.  I'm thinking of not pushing myself to post there every week, since I do have other writing projects to work on.

The spring semester started last week, right along with the new year.  I made a goal for 2012 that involves doing a lot of writing, and then I'm also taking English 2010 this semester.  This particular English class focuses on critical thinking and persuasive writing.  I feel like I'm a moderately good writer -- good enough to get an A in a typical high school English class without learning much, but certainly not good enough to drift through this college class with a great grade.  By the end of the semester (mid-April) my blog posts might sound less like rambling and more like professional writing.  X3

Have you ever thought about how when you write, you're basically just putting a bunch of squiggles up for display and hoping they mean roughly the same thing to everyone else as they do to you?  Not only do we resort to these desperate measures, we spend years in school learning how to do it better.  Expressing ideas must be REALLY important to us.  Or most of us, at least.