Vacations are tough. Not only can they cost a lot, but the heightened expectations make every decision important and full of consequences. Oh sure, you can just relax, but then what else are you missing? Is the ideal vacation one where a person can relax, or is it packed with excitement? It depends on the person, and the place, but part of taking a vacation is also understanding why the vacation is taking place in the first place. For me, the “vacation” that is currently ending as I am writing this, was one out of necessity.
The vacation in my case in my vacation from blogging. Coming back from Japan and now living in the US hasn’t gone exactly to plan. It has been a lot of making up new plans as things progress, and well, it has been good. Living back home and getting reacquainted with friends and family has been a valuable experience for me. If my new plans do work out, it would be great, but it is that constant remaking of “plan B” that makes me hope that "plan a" would just work out already.
I do want to apologize to all those who were disappointed by my lack of writing. You all are a small bunch, but ya’ll are the ones I don’t want to let down the most. For about two months I just felt like my personal life and problems were taking front stage and everything else was becoming irrelevant. Which is a shame, because it will now take a while to get the rust off of these writing muscles. It was an odd feeling, not really thinking about what to write every week. There is something about sitting down and sending something into the world that has become important to me.
I struggle with the feeling that my writing isn’t living up to my potential sometimes, and this blog allows me to explore that feeling. I hope that one day all this writing might lead somewhere, but if it never does, I can at least say that I tried, even if it is just a little bit. Even if no ones reads an entry, at least I was able to form my thoughts into something solid, perhaps even tangible (as much as text on a web page can be tangible, anyway).
So the plan is to get the blog back on the rails on a weekly basis. I am going to move the blog date to every Sunday instead of the sort of Friday/Saturday thing I had going on before. I figure that will give me plenty of time to type one out, even if I have to do it at the last minute.
Anyways, other than than finally getting back into writing, I have been doing pretty good. I finally got my jet-lag under control, which is great, but for a while I as able to wake up at 6:30AM with no effort and seize the day. Now I have to make sure to set an alarm and get coffee if I ever hope to wake up that early. I gained a few pounds, and now I have to be extra diligent to lose them. I was planning to get a good work out routine started and this is just a good excuse to get it started. Still eating rice and miso soup every morning, though mostly because my parents have a rice maker and it is the most convenient thing for me. Getting part time jobs has not been difficult, but landing a full time job has been tougher than I thought. Still doing my best, and hope that my skill and a little bit of luck will carry me to where I want to be.
Not sure what I will write next yet, but I have several ideas. I was thinking of writing about that whole Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke thing, but the work I would have to put into it combined with how played out it seems to become may deter me just enough to not do it. I have things to say about World’s End, I have thought about comparing Iron Man 3 to Cyborg 009 (comic books movies at opposite ends of the spectrum of comic book movies for the mainstream and comic book movies for a niche), and maybe writing about some things about video games now that the PS3 and Xbox 360 generations seem to be coming to a close. I also got a sequel to COMPARTMENTALIZATION in the planning stages called ORGANIZATION. Whatever I write about, I hope that everyone (and more) will tune in and read!
Have a happy Labor Day!
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