the indie lumberjack.

First things first.

Happy Mardi Gras, errrbody.

Moving on.

My post today isn’t really anything elaborate. I don’t really have an agenda or anything on my mind that I need to rant about. This is just sort of a “Hey, what’s up” kind of post.

Money in the bank.

Well, I got a job at GameStop as a seasonal hire, which meant I was only useful between the months of November-January. But something magical happened…they let me keep my job after the Holiday season had come to an end. And let’s just say that “Christmas GameStop” is a lot scarier than “Everyday GameStop”. So I work there now and love every second of it [especially when I get awesome free stuff because of it].

And I have a job at Wesleyan doing paperwork for the Political Science department. Not a bad job, I like the professors that I do work for.

This is a house of learn-ed doctors.

A few weeks ago I started my fourth semester at Virginia Wesleyan because the aspiration to transfer schools fizzled because it didn’t seem worth it anymore. I found friends at this school that aren’t backstabbing wastes of time, I found myself a lady, and I found myself an adviser for my major that actually seems to care about me as a person and as a student.

Sure, some things about the school still totally suck [most of the people, the lack of fun things to do on the weekend, most of the people] but some things have actually improved a lot since last year [my GPA, my friends, the food in the cafeteria].

This might sound incredibly stupid to a lot of people, but I’m actually glad I went to Wesleyan because it rooted out a lot of cancers from my life that were holding me back from being successful.

I am a writer, a writer of fiction.

As a lot of you may know, I have been slowly but surely writing a novel for the past 10 or 11 months. This isn’t my first attempt at writing a novel, but it is the first one that I’ve stuck with for longer than a few months [except for the one I was writing in high school that I lost when I lost the notebook it was in]. My goal has to been write about a hundred words a day or atleast 500 words a week. My main goal, however, is to finish this piece of fiction before Christmas 2010…which gives me 311 days to finish it.

I don’t know why I chose Christmas as my deadline for myself, it just felt like a good day to choose. What I might do, is make my deadline March 3, 2011, since that will mean I wrote the novel for two years…I don’t know though.

My Deadline – December 25, 2010.
Real Deadline – March 3, 2011.

I’m not releasing any details about it yet, but if you’re interested in it…ask me questions about it and maybe I’ll let you read Chapter One.

That is about it.

Well…that is all I really have to talk about. Tomorrow is “wtf wednesday” and I think Thursday there will be a review of Dante’s Inferno since I picked up a copy from work and have been playing it as much as I can [it is epic].

Thanks for the support, everyone.

Cody.