Conclusions of the Week (1/30/10)

January 30th, 2010

I so do not want to work in a traditional corporate environment! Right now, it doesn’t matter much because of my age, but in the long run, I am sure I’d be quite miserable. Even better, I think I’d like to work from home-ish, in the sense that I set my own hours or work in a place that is very flexible. Academia, you say? Maybe, but academia has its own set of problems and politics that I’m not sure I want to navigate. Actually, this realization more or less lines right up with what I ultimately want to do with my life and be known for (I won’t say it here just yet, because that goal is years and years off — 10, maybe 15 years in the future).
If I am going to start writing, I have to do it now! I want to call myself a ‘writer’ so much, not for fame or anything like that, but because if I don’t write, my head is going to explode. I’d make music if I could, or paint, or sculpt, or dance, but those are not my mediums. Words and stories pound against the inside of my skull and they must get out! I’ve mentioned before that there is a block as solid as a brick wall preventing me from writing . . It’s gotten less solid over the past few weeks, but that’s taking too long. I’ve been telling myself that I just don’t know quite enough about the craft, but that’s BS. I can learn the technical stuff as I go along and hone my voice. In fact, that’s how I learn just about everything else, why should this be any different? No more waiting! To that end, tomorrow I am going to write a 1 page work of . . . something. I don’t know what, but it’s going to come out.
Weigh in: 196.2 Woot!
I love this song: