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Monday, May 22, 2006

Decisions 

I have decided that on my 30th birthday (in one year) I am going to buy a laptop (if I don't have one already by then). Then I am going to start actually writing in earnest. I'm not sure what my first project will be, whether it will be in script or prose format or what. Two of my favorite authors (Heinlein and Murakami) only started writing when they were 30, so it seems a good model to follow considering the output both of them created (and continues to create in Murakami's case).

But for right now I'm at an interesting point in my life: I don't have any major projects looming over my head. This begs the question, "What do I want to do with my life?" Well, more accurately it begs the question, "What do I want to do with my summer?" because my Fall project is mostly likely going to be getting ready for Winterfest.

I'm not at a shortage of things to work on, though. Not by a long shot. I just need to decide where to focus my energies. I do know one thing I want to do this summer: hang out with my friends more. I had a great time last week hanging out with Brandy, Sandy, Mathias, and Leia. I love all the Bead Factory Babes, but I can't help but feel that they're friends with me mostly because I'm with Carrie (with the exception of Brandy, with whom I was friends before she became a Bead Babe; she kinda straddles the line). I always have a good time hanging out with the Bead Babes, but there is really no substitute for hanging out with my own friends that I made myself.

But I know myself (at least I'd like to think I know myself passably well), and I know that if I go too long without harnessing my creative energies that I'll go stir-crazy. Happiness is an organism doing its designed function efficiently, and one of my major functions is creating things. But what to create? Decisions, decisions!
  • I could work on creating websites (the added bonus of this is that some of them might actually make me some money), like doing (yet another) revamp of ANGRY BEEF or finally getting Thirsty Robots off the ground.
  • Thirsty Robots also involves another creative output, that of glass etching. I could start etching up a storm, getting an early start on my inventory for Winterfest.
  • Or I could concentrate on my drawing/painting skills, and maybe actually amassing enough finished works to go to a gallery space here in town (like at The Rosewood) and saying, "Here, put my stuff up on your walls!"
  • I could concentrate more on This Website, writing more than one Article and/or Movie Review per month. This would keep my writing skills in use for when I actually finally commit to writing for reals.
  • Heck, I could even dig out all of my old tracker programs and samples and start writing music again, something I haven't done for a couple of years!

So on what (other than hanging out with friends) should I focus my energies? That's not just a rhetorical question; I want to know what YOU think I should be creating this summer!

I'll make an executive decision at the end of the week.


posted by Christopher at 11:41 AM

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I think you should either work on writing or painting. If you want to get together sometime during the summer and paint, I'd love to! Then it would satisfy 2 of your resolutions, hanging out with friends and doing something creative! One of my summer resolutions is to paint/draw more, too. I just haven't been making time for it, and I need to. I can completely identify with your creative self going stir-crazy.

By Anonymous Leia, at 5/22/06 9:35 PM  

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