Brain Enema of a Savage Mind

While I may be spending New Year at home feeling a little under the weather rather than out enjoying the evening with friends 2007 has been a pretty good year.  Sure, this month hasn’t been that great, and it’s rather fitting that I’m ending the month feeling run down, but over all this has been a great year.  After all I got engaged earlier this year, I’ve been enjoying my job over all, and I’ve taken a couple nice little vacations this year.  There’s been no major negative things in 2007 - sure, many minor complaints, and some rough spots, but nothing terrible.  I’ve got hope for 2008.  I’ll be getting married in June, and hey, maybe there’s going to be some excellent trip in my future.  Maybe my expectations are a little high for the new year, but considering expectations the past few years have been so low I think its safe to be a little excited for this one.

So to all of you, a happy and wonderful New Year!  May your 2008 bring you everything you dream. 

I’m not talking about the video game here, I’m burning out.  The holidays are always tough - I don’t have a lot of that family or shopping stress - it’s just that because we have a bunch of students working here who all disappear around the holidays I end up working a crazy number of hours.  Plus I end up dealing with other peoples holiday stress as we get people in here last minute shopping for random gifts.  Then there’s all the running around after work because around the holidays everyone wants to get together, or go out and do this or that.  I don’t really remember what my living room looks like anymore.

Today is a half day for me.  The parents are in town so I’d like to see them for a little bit rather than always be at work while they’re here.  Tomorrow though will be a full day of working.  Saturdays are crazy days to work. Between tours and large groups, and just generally being just slightly more busy than two people can handle its going to wear the last bit of me out I’m sure.  Fortunately Sunday there are no plans other than sitting on the couch.  Maybe I’ll treat myself to a new XBox game and spend the whole day blowing up aliens or some such.  It will be a good relaxing day.  Life should return to some sense of normal around January 12th once our student staff get back in town.  But for the time being its zombie mode for me.

All right, so I thought there was about to be some major changes to the website.  More specifically I was going to change the entire engine that drives this blog, but after some experimentation I’m quite happy just staying with Wordpress.  Sure, there’s some things that I’d like to see, but nothing that is of major importance - and pretty much every other solution kind of sucks, or is just serious over kill for my needs.  I think the only major change is that I’ve made three posts in a row - it’s been awhile since I’ve done that.

However I’ve started cleaning up a lot of my older stories - putting some polish on them, so that I can post them to this website.  Several are very short stories, others are incomplete, but maybe putting the polish on them, and putting them up here will help inspire more writing on my part.  I’m hoping the creative spirit is going to be a part of the new year, but we shall see.  In the meantime keep an eye out for those snippets sometime in the next couple of days. 

For those who celebrate Christmas may it be merry and bright!  For those of you who don’t I wish you much happiness and joy, and hopefully a wonderfully relaxing day off spending it in whatever manner you choose! While I don’t have much time off (just today in fact) I plan to use it wisely - doing as little as possible, eating good food, and enjoying the company of friends and (new)family.  Here’s to hoping that the end of this year will start in motion the beginning of a brilliant next year!

… big changes underway.