Ghosts

I'm DONE! Well, done with my freshman year that is. Finally turned in my College Scholar proposal which marks the end of school work for my first year! Doesn't feel especially different though... maybe because I'm taking a summer course which starts a month from now.

It is awfully weird though. For the past however-many months, I've been living in this fantastical college world, and now here I am in the real world. Still unemployed.

The other day I learned something interesting: Apparently record companies give songwriting contracts. New dream career path? I think so. And call me strange if you'd like for not wanting to be a real musician (slash performer), but if I could make money off of writing pop songs, I would never have to work a day in my life (hooray for cliches!). I suppose I'm just different:

It's not everyday
That someone aspires to
Have a ghost career

Recently, I've realized that almost all of the jobs I would be interested in life are "ghost" jobs. Writing for a television show, writing songs, writing speeches, writing almost anything aside from books, really. Really though, I don't want to be famous, and if I can make money just riding the curtails of fame. Think about it, if I got a song-writing contract, I could be doing exactly what I'm doing right now in my free-time, only making money from it. That's a BIG "if" though.

A tedious, brief scene

I've realized that recently my posts have been a bit long and rambling. I shall correct that with this post.


Concision is a
Quality worth having. Though
It can cause problems.

I can be concise if I want to with ease. However, there's just so much to write. It can be problematic though. For instance, in that haiku. I thought of those first 11 syllables, and then needed to come up with the rest. And then I did. Here's a few examples in which being too concise can lead to complications: concocting a Constitution for your country, conducting a hostage negotiation, sitting on the wrong side of a police interrogation, debating, writing a 40 page research paper, or doing stand-up comedy for a 30 minute block ("okay let's see, 5 minutes in? Crap, I'm pretty much done"). In any case, concision can be valued in blog posts. Unless they suck. Rambling and respectable is better than tedious and brief (the 2nd part is a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream. There's no reason why you should know that though).