27th
The Easiest Way to Express Yourself
As I logged in to start on today’s update I quickly glanced at tumblr’s homepage. It claimed to me that “tumblelogs are the easiest way to express yourself.” I just shrugged as I got up slowly and turned toward the window. A stiff breeze rushed to greet my congested sinuses as I pulled it open. I looked right. I looked left. “FUCK YOU!!!” I looked right again. I looked left again. Nothing. Cold, I shut the window. I shrugged to myself again, “That seemed considerably easier, but what do I know?”
On the personal front, I am doing okay at my new job. It is not my life’s calling, but it’ll do until I find the easiest way to get paid to express myself. Something funny on the writing front did happen to me the other day. I submitted a report to one of my bosses and he was heard to remark, “Goddamn you can really write.” The funny part of it was that the subject of the report was voluntary annexation. I wanted to give him the “Supercuts” article from the West Virginia Surf Report or the “Bathroom Spray” article from Because I Can or sample chapters from my two unfinished shitty novels or a screenplay or something that was more than a 26 page report on voluntary annexation. Then I realized that he was not an agent or a publisher and I guess I was fine that he was okay with my report.
I have come to the realization that I was never really that good at being a musician. I was also never really that good as a comic. My writing itself isn’t really that strong. I can, however, write a story that entertains. I have been trying to start a second life as a programmer, but I have found that I lack the discipline to actually get good enough to get into the money programs. I worked on learning Spanish and I am relatively sure that I could get out alive if I was dropped into a Spanish-speaking environment, but I cannot cross the line into fluent.
I can, however, make people laugh on occasion through writing. So that, my friends, is what I will do. I will write here as often as I can. I will submit to the Surf Report. I will finish my shitty novels and make them less shitty. I will find an agent or a publisher. Or I will self-publish and shame my sister into buying 300,000 copies. Or I will do nothing and repost something similar to this six months from now. Do me a favor and help me out if you can.
