Update: A Creature of Bad Habits

Update:

So, I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd just write a quick blog to say how things are going.

“As good as can be expected, I suppose”.

It's been a very busy and stressful time for me, approaching the end of semester. I have two large research projects going on, which means that pretty much everything else gets put on hold which annoys me. I subscribe to the CGP Grey definition of success- how much of your time do you get to decide what you want to do? At the moment, for me it's “very, very little”. I'm currently writing this post as a way of just getting the language part of my brain warmed up and then it's back to 6,500 words of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and 5,000 words on The Artist.

So, what's been happening? Well...the semester's almost over and it's always at this point I like to take a moment and reflect on how the half-year's been. So far, no complaints but I do have some suggestions. Lately it's been very monotonous so I think a road trip is in order- the destination is unimportant. I really need to take some time to figure out what I'm doing outside of my university work. Certainly, I think I would like to think that I am not codependent on the university- although sometimes it is difficult to think otherwise.

Sometimes I listen to one song over and over again to get myself focused on writing. I've listened to Taylor Swift's “Blank Space” 300 times. I don't even like Taylor Swift- but it is a song which keeps me focused.

I dunno. I really don't have much to say- which possibly suggests that I've shut myself off to new experiences which is never a good thing. I'll do anything once, but I feel like I've not really “done” anything outside of my routine. You start dying when you stop growing, and this is a big problem in my world view, because I am a creature of bad habits, and I do enjoy my routine. Being forced out of my comfort zone is a necessary thing for me to do, but it's never something I'm ever going to be okay doing.

I'm finally out of my back-catalogue so I'll be posting new material here from now on. I had one story I was going to post but it seems in poor taste at the moment so I'm going to just hang on to that one for another time.