So I guess I took a one month vacay from blogging. Except instead of a vacation, my last month has been hellish and all sorts of awful.
Unemployment is terrible. For a few weeks, I was all, "Yeah! I'm gonna read all the books! I'm gonna go to all the museums! I'm gonna do all the things!" But after some time, that gets old. Being alone for ten hours a day gets old. And so I started getting all depressed and crappy and did a lot of sleeping and a lot of headache-having. Hmph. Don't feel too bad. The blog was not the only thing I neglected. I haven't worked on my book in I don't know how long.
But then something miraculous happened. I got a job. An actual job with a salary and excellent health benefits. A job that means no more days consisting of ten hours of solitude. I can't say where or my exact position, but it has to do with the Affordable Care Act. Cool stuff. This is how I feel about it:
But then I was like, ah money problems. Paying student loans, car payments, etc, is not going to be super easy even with el job. So instead of walking around like that picture of Robert all day, I slept some more. And on the same day my account was accidentally overdrawn, I got an email about said loans, found out I'd have to pay more for my commute than I thought, and broke my pair of boots that are appropriate for any occasion, rendering me useless. So I slept some more. But then I got my shit together and was back to being grateful for a job.
Despite said inertia, I've managed to accomplish some things over the last month. For starters, I finally finished the Fellowship. Yeah yeah! I'm on to The Two Towers right now, and I'm about half way through. I've also held myself to my promise of going to church everyday.
And I've really enjoyed it.
But, back to bloggy business.
1. Future posts. Man. So I really have thought a lot about different posts I can do about Catholicism, I just haven't done it. (Inertia, remember?) So my plans are, over the next week, to write at least one post about why I started to get back into Catholicism and started going to church again, and to write at least two other posts. I think one is going to be about abortion because I've been wanting to write about it for a while. We shall see.
2. Books. I'm going to set weekly goals for reading and throw those goals up on this bad boy for some sense of accountability.
This week's readin':
"Three books?!" Yeah, no. I've read Confucius but I want to do a quick reread. And I'm halfway through Towers. So really it's not too bad. I'm also planning on reading Unions, Labor Law, and Collective Bargaining by Allen Smith on Minerva, el kindle. But it's not a hefty read, it sounds like more of a guide.
So look out for one of those upcoming posts! I'm off to sleep. ...before 9pm. ...at age 22.
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Charlotte
