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2014: A Review

Look, I know it’s pretty cheesy to post a thing reflecting on the past year at the end of December. But I keep seeing all these things on Facebook that supposedly summarize what happened and they all say “It's been a great year! Thanks for being a part of it.” They wanted me to do one too, but my Facebook posts would hardly be an accurate representation of my life in 2014. Life is so much more than what I post on Facebook, partly because I don’t really think anyone cares and also I don’t post everything I’m feeling all the time.  And, also, there were barely any people involved in my 2014 who are on Facebook. I have barely over 100 friends on Facebook, and of those, maybe a quarter of them post stuff semi-regularly. And of those people, probably ten of them are active on my Facebook posts. I probably have more active followers on Tumblr than I do Facebook (this is a lie. Maybe five people reblog my stuff on Tumblr. But I love those guys, especially if any of them are readin...

Hobbies Include: Not Writing

If I have one superpower (and lbhrn [lets be honest right now], I probs only have one), it would be procrastination. Proof? Well while I’m writing this post, I am also working on a Christmas card for a friend that I said I was going to be putting in the mail like, two days ago (Moogle-chan, I’m sorry that I suuuuck). Which is I guess less an example of procrastination and more an example of me sucking, except that it IS procrastination when Christmas is in less than a week. I also have a writing job that I should be working on because I said I would have it done before I left on Christmas Eve, but I’m not working on that yet. Why? Well, partly because they don’t pay me enough, BUT REALLY: I have a simultaneous fear of success and failure. Which I guess a lot of people do, but here is how it works into my procrastination. The longer I put off doing something, the longer I have where the thing I am creating still has potential. That might not be clear, so let me explain. I...