It's the most wonderful time of the year
Ah… the good old holiday season. When we brush aside our differences and get together to over-indulge ourselves. It also gives us time to reflect on the events of the year past. We laugh about good times, cry about bad times, and complain about hard times. Allow me to over-indulge myself in such memories of the past twelve months.
This year has proven, like many others in recent memories, to be full of interesting twists and turns. Where to begin. Ah yes…
January. The new year started. My job at UVa concessions decides I'm of no worth anymore, so I'm let go until further notice. I begin work at Big Mouth Pizza as a delivery driver. Big Mouth is owned by a good friend of Murph and I, Frank Cramblit. If you live in Charlottesville, I HIGHLY reccomend trying it. Really good stuff.
February. A few weeks prior to the beginning of this short month my friend Greg has begun to play this crazy MMORPG called “Final Fantasy XI: Online.” Following him were several of his friends, myself included. For the past 10 months this game has seeped its way into my life almost everyday in some way shape or form. It has a bad habit of making me not work on content for my website despite my best efforts to do both. Thankfully, the website seems to be winning now. Oh, and I attended Katsucon for a few hours.
March. Concessions says they need my help again. I do that and Big Mouth for the time being. Hurray for money. Rabid FF-XI playing continues.
April. During the month of April, one Greg Dean of webcomic fame, decided to take a little break from his daily grind of comic making. He allowed his fans to take a stab at his intellectual property. One such fan, by the name of Davis Murphy, did a strip that seemed to be generally well recieved. Fueled by eager chit-chat on the Real Life forums, this name known simply as “murf” soon started a website of his own a few weeks down the road. And would you look at that? It's still here. If you're a regular visitor who ISN'T a friend, I would like to take this short moment in time to thank you for putting up with my constant “delays” and months of not updating. Please feel free to contact me in some manner (via email or forum) to remind to update the site. I have a gut feeling that I'd respond better to people I don't know as opposed to the nagging of my friends. (And to all my friends, you all deserve a REALLY BIG HUG for putting up with me period.) I have yet to abandon my site, but I also have yet to get it truly going. So after getting this huge ego boost from making a website, I get shot back down REAL quick by having to go through the pain of putting down a family pet of 12 years. This was covered in my 2nd Rant, which I also consider my best. Anyways, I lost a good friend, may she rest in peace.
May. A few days later though, I reached what many consider true Adulthood. I turned 21, had my first legal drink… quickly followed by about 8 more. I get to help my grandfather with a video project by being a “Light Technician” and Boom Mike Operator. Furthermore, my car decides to finally enter the “piece of junk” phase of it's life. Which I promptly respond to by getting a nice 2002 Ford Ranger pickup. I love my truck.
June. My job at UVa concession ends for the summer. I continue to work at Big Mouth Pizza for the time being. Nothing of real notable interest.
July. Uhh… I worked. I played FF-XI. I didn't update much. I went to Otakon 2004. Also… I began to take active interest in this place in Florida called Full Sail Real World Education.
August. I return to work at Concessions, I leave my job at Big Mouth. This begins a downward spiral of the quality of my life as I am soon CONSUMED by work which would not cease until months later. Hell, at the time of this writing, things are just beginning to really settle into a normal manner.
September. Did I mention that I was CONSUMED by work. Allow to rephrase this. My days were divided into two parts: work, and sleep. I would sleep, wake up, goto work, come home and then repeat. This resulted in working 6 days a week, about 10 hours a day, sometimes more. Ever wondered why there were no updates in August and September? Yea… allow me to repeat that word: CONSUMED!!!!!!!!!
October. Big turning point. After being so CONSUMED by work, (I bet that's getting annoying by now. Too bad… I need to emphasize how bad it really was.) Murph and I took a little excursion down to Florida to see this school I've looking at for a few months now. I was… ready… CONSUMED with glee. The school was awesome. The path in front of me opened… I took the first step. It was no longer an idea, or meager curiosity. I was set in my path. I was going to go to this school and change my life for the better. I return back to being CONSUMED by work. I make a meager attempt at doing the site again. In the end… well… you know… work and that c-word again. I'll spare you the pain this time.
November. I don't think I've ever mentioned that I don't like sports. I don't really get all the hype. At this point I was still CONSUMED!!! Then within a span of time that could not really have exceeded two weeks, three things happened. First of all, Football season ended, so I became less consumed (look, lower case now). That was a load off. Secondly, I applied to Full Sail. I was accepted and I'm set to begin on May 26, 2005. Thirdly, Murph decides to go and marry this lady he's been hanging out with. So in about one week, I was given two things to look forward to next year. On top of all this, I ate lots of turkey.
December. That brings us to now. So withing the next few sentences will be things that are about to come to pass (at the time of this writing). This is typically where I'd say “I'm gonna work on my site now!” Instead of making an ass of myself by saying that I think I'll just say I'm gonna do my best. Yea… that works. Things are looking for the site though. So we'll see what happens. My job at Concessions ends next Tuesday (the 21st), permanently. No more of this on and off crap. I'm quitting for a multitude of reasons which I don't really want to go into great detail discussing. Basically, from here on out the job becomes a mish-mash of hours. Where I could be working overtime one week and 10 hours the next. In order to save up for school, I need something I can rely on better. A set schedule. Furthermore, the job takes a lot out of me both physically and mentally which leads to lack of desire to work on the site. I want to do the site not only for the sake of doing it, but also to understand my strengths and weaknesses before I go to school. So basically, I'm quitting Concessions to get ready for school. That's the real big news that this rant was meant to notify you of. On top of this, I've got my various Christmas plans. I'll update about that post-New Years.
I don't rant often, so I'm sure the next time I'll share my life with y'all will be sometime in January. So here's wishing that whatever holiday you may celebrate (assuming that you do celebrate a holiday this time of year), that all goes well for you. So go over-indulge yourselves in whatever, I'll be here.
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