Some Thoughts On The Matter

 Hey! I know it doesn't look like it, but it's felt like  forever  since I've decided to sit down and write a blog post. It's kind of hard to believe that it was such a strong habit of mine that I was able to post frequently for a year. I've really enjoyed my more lax expectations when it comes to the scheduling for the blog, but it's also led to a new conundrum: what is worth blogging about?     Obviously, there is no requirement or standard that I've held my blogs to in the past. That was the point, after all: I just had to write something, anything, twice a week, and I'd be happy with it. But now that I'm going to be posting much less frequently, I do feel a strange sort of duty to have more of a qualitative approach to these blogs. For weeks, I haven't been able to come up with any ideas "worth writing" about, but finally, a thought came to mind, one so obvious that I literally smacked my own face for not having thought about it soo...

     It's kind of surreal to think about, but today marks the exact one year anniversary of me making this blog site. This blog sits in a sort of liminal temporal space in my mind: it feels like I've had the weekly pressures of posting to this site for almost forever, but at the same time it feels absurd to say that I've written 106 blog posts in the span of a year, with most trending above a thousand words each. Being conservative, that's at least  106,000 words written this year, which is more words than in the Hobbit book by  J.R.R. Tolkien. Man, you're telling me I could have written the Hobbit in a year instead of a bunch of blog posts that no one reads? What a waste of time...     I'm joking, of course. Even though comparing my estimate of how much I've written for this blog to classic books in literature is kind of breaking my brain (seriously, this blog has more words than 1984), writing a bunch of words was never really the driving motivation ...

     When most people are asked the question: " What's your favorite movie?"  there's usually a short burst of panic as people scramble to think of a definitive favorite film. After all, not everyone has such strong opinions on film, and even if they do, its pretty hard to single out just one film that stands above your other favorites. Personally, after time and time again of panicking and saying something like "Oh... I like a bunch of movies... I can't pick just one favorite,"  I decided that the next time I was asked this question, I'd have one, definitive answer so I could talk to people about it.     However, when I say that my favorite movie of all time is Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest , it tends to catch people a little off guard. After all, it's kind of expected to name a famous "film bro" movie, one with high critical acclaim, or perhaps some super-niche small film that only a select few have seen. Mentioning...

      It's always a good feeling when hard work pays off. I believe I mentioned it in my last blog post where I wrote about my time at the Kudzu Review this semester, but as a refresher, I applied to become Head of the Fiction Department since my current bosses are graduating this semester. And, after a week of waiting, I was notified that I did in fact get the position!     This meant a lot to me, and not just because I finally have something new to add to my resume. The Kudzu Review has sort of represented a shift I made this year to properly engaging with my interests and future career in writing/editing. During my freshman year at FSU, I was kind of aimless in terms of progressing my English career and developing my sense of identity. I think I was just focused on having fun and getting through my first year of living away from home, along with all of the challenges that come with living in a cramped college dorm, a relationship, and going to a different col...

    A lesson I've learned throughout the last few years of my life has been how surprisingly valuable having routines is. I know, shocker. I must be the last person on Earth to discover that doing things consistently will lead to progress, stability, and general happiness. However, I still wanted to talk about routines I have for a little bit, if only because I can't think of anything else to blog about today (technically I could've reviewed the Minecraft Movie, but that's a joke). It's all about the small moments of consistency in life that add up to a greater, happier picture.     For example, one of the first routines I had established with Wade, my roommate, was watching anime together every other night. Neither of us were really "anime nerds" by any stretch of the definition, but we both were interested in exploring a medium that we both weren't familiar with, and sharing that experience with each other provided nice, calm nights where we were abl...

      FINALLY!!! FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY!!! THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS IN SIGHT! IT'S WITHIN OUR REACH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!     Excuse me. I got a little overexcited. This will be a very short blog post- I can hardly contain my excitement and will be taking the day off of work to celebrate. If it wasn't immediately obvious, after several years of waiting impatiently and being kept in the dark, the release date for DELTARUNE Chapters 3 and 4 was released at a Nintendo Switch unveiling event, which was promoting the upcoming release of the brand new Nintendo Switch 2. I don't even own a Switch, nor do I ever plan on it, but when I heard that DELTARUNE news was released at this event, I quickly tuned in.     After spending so much time waiting with no end in sight, it felt a little unreal to hear about DELTARUNE having new content drop after 4 years since the last update. While I always knew it would one day happen, the know...