Eight Months Later

And you thought the blog had just died, didn't you?

At any rate, a lot has happened since the last post. It's harder for me to keep up a blog when I've actually got a job and school and, well, things to do. To provide an update:

• Jobs. I was finally hired at Best Buy in late October--and left it two months later despite their pleas for me to stay. Went on to work at Staples, an arguably worse move, quit that in early April (notice a pattern?) and now I'm at the Atlanta Ballet doing a telemarketing gig. Not dreadful work, especially when you play sudoku for most of the shift, but not exactly a resume-booster either, unless I plan on being a telemarketer indefinitely. I'll probably create a separate post with details about my jobs later.  

• Writing. I'm not just blogging anymore: since about May of this year, I've been trying to actually be a real writer with real writing assignments that might even show up in search engines. This all kind of started after googling "how to make $1000 a month" some five or six weeks ago and was led to an site dealing with online article/affiliate marketing. But more on that later; in the meantime, I've signed up as a Yahoo! Associated Content Contributor, been trying to create a viable Elance profile, and am even working towards getting a writing internship soon.

• School. Has started. And with regards to the spring semester, has already ended as well. I'm currently in the midst of dealing with a part-time summer semester, making a decision about transferring from Georgia State or not, and deciding what the fuck to do with my life after--and during--college. Everyone keeps saying this is the time in your life when you can do anything with it--anything with it!--and I'm pretty much still in the wtf? stage of having any idea about that. Like I'm going to screw up colossally and miss out of some major opportunity that I'll have an epiphany about around my 40th birthday. At any rate, it's still nice to be in school, it feels like I'm making some sort of progress. I'm even keeping another blog for my English class right now.

So that's just an inkling of what's new. Just to touch one of my prior posts about buying a computer: I bought a computer. And a car. And car insurance, gas, repair bills--blech. So now I'll need a job pretty much indefinitely. And I've got this bad habit of not showing up for work; in fact, I should be at work this very minute. I know, I know, this is why I'm not getting good jobs. All the more reason I should focus on my writing: as of now I don't have anything else going for me.

So yeah, hopefully the next post will be before February 2012. Later.