Long hiatus

I know I’ve been gone a while. It’s a long story, not terribly exciting, just life stuff that got in the way. It’s still not totally done but I feel like I have to start writing again, partially because I know how annoyed I would get if I wanted this blog URL, couldn’t get it because it was taken, checked the blog, and saw it had been dormant for months. This has happened to me before. It’s really not a big deal but it’s kind of a let-down.

Having been away for so long, I feel like I need to write something epic. I don’t have anything epic. Like I said, just life stuff. Finishing up school, trying to figure out money stuff for post-secondary, all that stuff. Very stressful, and made more-so by the fact that some stuff went wrong months ago (I’ll admit, at my own fault) and has just snowballed. The impact could be that I’ll lose my place in residence. I hope that doesn’t happen, and I’m holding out hope, but I’m also bracing myself for that. Another reason I’ve been away for so long is because of my laptop. I’ve written about problems with it in the past, and the night before a big project was due, it died. I cried. Thankfully I’m a procrastinator and hadn’t gotten too far into it. The house desktop is a piece of crap – unbelievably slow, actually painful to use, but I managed to get everything done. The teacher understood that I couldn’t bring myself to re-do the parts I’d lost. Of course I didn’t get marks for the parts I didn’t do, but at least I finished. I finally used some of my meager savings to buy a new laptop, and I’m very happy with it so far. I’ve been learning the joys of Open Office and trying to get back into the internet again.

Part of the reason I’m writing this post is because I feel like I should do something with my writing. I feel like I need a project, like the Julie/Julia project. (Funnily enough a commercial for that movie is on right now.) If anything, it would give me a bit of direction. I’m trying to come up with something. Maybe get to know someone from every province and territory. Maybe learn to knit. Maybe learn to cook, like the Julie/Julia thing, though I doubt I’d have the patience. Anyway, I feel like I need to do something. I’m thinking that thing might be doing some serious blogging about starting college and all the trip-ups I’ve gone through so far. It’s an idea, right? I know personally I love reading about the post-secondary experience, and about what freshmen experience. We’ll see.