School's out, school's out! Teachers let the monkeys out!
Well, not quite, but only a couple weeks left until the semester that never ends finally draws to a close. I'm not going to lie, the last four months have felt like an eternity. Maybe that's because it's one of the first time's I have made it a point to do well in school since I graduated high school forever ago. Maybe it's been the meds. Mayhap it's a bit of both, but I'm going to give a good chunk of that blame to the meds.
Seriously though, I've got a few things I'm working on creatively, and I've come to what would seem to be a crossroads. I've got two things I thoroughly enjoy in this world: creativity endeavors (fiction, movies, my own creation of goodies) and video games. It would seem that with the way I consume entertainment, games in particular, that something has to give. I'm thinking I really only have a couple options at this time.
One, I can continue to be a game-crazed-maniac, drop out of school (again), and just make an attempt to find another meaningless job during the upturn of a recession. (Good luck with that!)
Second, I can finally bring this nonsense to an end, stop talking about doing something, and actually do something.
I suppose I could just continue down the path I've chosen for the last ten years, but that's really not something I think I can handle any longer. Mediocrity and procrastination have brought me to this point and, frankly, I'm a little scared of where it would lead in another ten years.
I'm leaning toward option number two. A major factor in this coming up now is that a friend is trying to revive his theatre company this fall and has asked me to write the script for a staged old time radio show for a Halloween production. This scares me. Granted, I do love writing, but I've always written in the comfort of knowing only a few people will see it, and those people will rarely ever tell me how terrible it is. So now it comes down to not only finishing a writing project (that would be a great success), but completing something and then converting it into a script. The best part in this is that I'm not writing for my own amusement, but because it was requested of me. So now I don't have the option of putting it off and telling myself I'll complete it later because right now I just need to get one more level, or win ten more games, or whatever gaming distraction seems to have my attention.
Great aspirations.
As classes wind down the pressure will truly be on in the effort to put the finishing touches on a story I have been wanting to write for a couple years, but never have been able to convince myself the time was nigh for its completion.
Then comes the real fun. Libsyn. I've come to the realization that I'm a techtard, though others may not agree. I can find my way around most things, but this is something I just don't understand entirely. I'm not sure how much bandwidth or whatever I'll need to put audio files up or how would be best to host it. I know a website would be ideal, but jeez, money. I'm gonna hafta find some of that stuff in a suitcase or something to set this up. Hopefully it can work from this little blogspot for a bit until I can figure out how best to do this.
We'll just have to wait and see. Not too much waiting, mind you. Just enough to find a solution. Until then? I suppose this can suffice as a temporary solution.
