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O well, so maybe today it won't be so much ranting. I'm starting this blog for a couple reasons.One, everyone's got one, might as well try to join the cool group, right? Two, I might be using this at work for our website, so I figured I should learn how this thing works.And third, I'm in a creative writing class, and I figured that I could use this sometimes to put some of my random thoughts and, well, rantings, in some form where people can can look at it. Or maybe this will just be some unlooked at website.
Thank goodness for autosaving systems. I just closed my laptop, which generally just turns the screen off but the programs keep going. This time however my computer turned off, I almost lost what I had written, which would have just been obnoxious to write again.
Just had my first day of fall semester, and while I only had two classes, I'm already frightened. The two classes being my creative writing, and my accounting 300 class. Many of you are probably looking at the accounting class and are now thinking "Well of course you should be frightened of that, you fool!" However my creative writing class is going to be pretty intense too, apparently. I don't know how much of the homework in it will be difficult, there's just going to be a lot of it. For instance, every morning, first thing (even before going the bathroom apparently) I'm supposed to just write for 15 minutes whatever comes to mine (first entry, man I have to pee and I'm hungry I wonder what work is going to be like today really I'm hungry I dunno if cereal is going to do it today maybe I can make pancakes... you get the picture) and I have to "Steal Sentences". Where I just listen to people in different situations (aka eavesdropping) and when I hear a good sentence I write it down in a little journal (so just watch out everyone! You may find yourself randomly quoted in my journal, and if it's really good it may get up here on the internet!).
Speaking of the journal, I had to buy it just now at the BYU bookstore. Man that place was PACKED!!!! Heck, all of campus has been a lot more full today. I guess I was spoiled in Spring and Summer term. Before I could pretty easily walk to and from class without having to dodge people, and now I'm constantly shifting and moving and doing backflips to avoid running into people (although landing the backflip is quite difficult to do without hitting anyone, so I may have to cut back on that one). It's strange, to look at this huge mass of people and to try and fathom how each one of them is going through things similar to me. All of them have hopes and fears about this coming year. Each one of them is a unique person, but that's all lost in the shuffle and the bustle of the herd. Occasionally glimpses of their true selves pop out, but for the most part we all become part of the masses. Maybe that's why I don't like big groups. I feel so much is lost and it's hard to appreciate people individually in a large group, not just when we're in large herds like between classes.
But back to the bookstore, it was slightly awkward, not just for the amount of people. For those of you who haven't noticed, I wear cargo pants, which have some lovely nice big pockets. Since I heard I would have to carry around a notebook for my creative writing class, I went into the bookstore looking for a pocket that would fit into a specific pocket. So I'm going around the store, grabbing random notebooks and holding them up to my pocket to see if they would fit. It soon occurred to me that if anyone saw me, they could easily assume that I was planning on stealing one. Just slightly awkward. Luckily, no one asked any questions and I managed to buy a decent notebook and pen for myself.
Like I said, this was a particular rant-y entry. I wonder if most of my entries will be like this or if eventually they'll start making sense. (timey whimey wibbly wobbly). Probably not, I'm too strange for that. So if you enjoy reading the rantings of a madman, good for you, you should be quite entertained. If not, what do I care, go on facebook for my life updates, my rantings are significantly repressed there, not enough room to put them all.
Ta ta!!
