Over a decade ago I wrote in a journal every night. I got the idea from watching Se7en when the deranged serial killer's wall of identical notebook logs was discovered by the illustrious Brad Pitt and I thought to myself I wanna do that! And collect my crazy thoughts I did. Granted mine weren't about how I was going to murder people in an elaborate biblical display but a teenage girl's rants aren't far off from that. Somewhere in closets and attics are teal spiral bound college ruled notebooks with fanciful titles such as Manifest Destiny erased crudely into the cover paint. And while most of the words are probably trite crap I remember fondly a few times I read aloud to people who encouraged this hobby of writing. But instead of blossoming into the next David Sedaris I discovered the Nerd Crack known as fantasy and sci-fi novels and got distracted for a long, long, long time.
Now I'm back (well mostly, because frankly once you dabble in Nerd Crack, you always dabble) and I'm on a mission. My continual goal since the lowest point in my humanity [remember the India blogs?] is to be a better person, a more interesting person, a kinder person, a healthier person, a more productive and creative person. This blog is the newest portion of that goal. Instead of mindlessly clicking glowing pixels in the latest facebook application, or tweezing missed leg hairs I'm going to write. As some of you know I'm co-writing a novel with my friend Justine that has been in the works for *cough cough 7+years COUGH*. I'm attempting to get addicted to yoga and pilates and I'm studying Spanish along with that whole extra degree in biology with teaching licensure thingy. Even if it takes a melon baller to scoop the inside of my brain for ideas, I figure somewhere in that infinite cavern of wrinkled gray matter a topic can be found.
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