A Boy and His Blog

2009 has come and gone, and we are now at the dawn of a new decade.  2009 was pretty uneventful for me.  I guess the one big happening was my decision to switch majors over to journalism.  I continue to freelance, and I really feel that I’ve been working my butt off thus far, but if I want to get anywhere, I’ll have to keep doing that for some time.  No one said this would be easy, and I’m up for the challenge.

I’m still an artist, though, and I have so many unfinished artistic endeavors.  There’s a storybook I’d like to work on; I’d also like to dabble in the fan art realm; then there are all of these graphic novel ideas swimming around upstairs.  It’s insane: this summer I was a guy who didn’t know what he wanted to do.  Now I want to do so much.  And dammit, I will accomplish all that I set forth to do.  That is a promise to myself that I intend on keeping.

In terms of the graphic novel idea, I want to do something with a lot of passion.  I want it to be a gritty love story that doesn’t have a happy ending.  I want it to be noir, I want it to be sexy, and I want it to be brooding.  I want it to fill the reader with a false sense of hope, only to end in tragedy.  A good friend of mine said she’d help out with the art, and that all I needed to do was send her my ideas.  It should be very interesting and very fun.  I’m looking forward to it.

I got a bunch of great gifts for my birthday and Christmas.  Games, comics, stuff like that.  It took me about a week to beat A Boy and His Blob, and I enjoyed every minute of it.  What I liked most about the game was that it was puzzle after puzzle.  The game’s progression relied completely on puzzle-solving, which made it more than just a simple platformer.  After beating A Boy and His Blob I started New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  It’s a really fun game, and another nice addition to the Mario series.  I reckon it won’t take me too much longer to get through that game.

It seems as if I’m pretty much done with Global.  I haven’t been scheduled in what feels like many months, and I honestly believe that the owner of the company has some personal vendetta against me.  (I always wanted to say something like that.)  Why?  I don’t know.  It’s a shady company anyway, so I look forward to getting another job and just saying goodbye to Global Event Staffing forever.  So I guess that means the job hunt shall begin anew.  Here’s hoping all goes well…