I'd damn well better keep up with this

I wish I was a writer. So hard do I wish I was a writer. The only problem is I keep starting project after project and after 10% or so is finished I just procrastinate it into oblivion. I think I'm relatively talented, I usually like the flow of phrase that I manage to squeeze out, but I get distracted away from everything too easily. I think possibly it's because I haven't read a decent, for realzies book in at least three years. Fuck you Spiderman for being so interesting.

Fortunately, recent events put a small exploritory booklet about Karl Marx into my lap. Recent events like Christmas. Well, I got around to reading it, and it was apparently the precise amount of jet fuel needed to propel me headlong back into literacy. Within the last five weeks I've read almost 800 pages, which might not sound like much, but for the most part the only time I have to read is an hour or so during breaks at work, and if I'm cognant enough to read before falling asleep.

Another helpful factor would be my work itself. I'm a custodian for a school district in a particularly sub-suburban town, and a large portion of my co-workers are unfortunate graduates of the same town who had the dire misfortune of listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin and figuring out which kind of liquid metal goes best with their pot. This, stirred in with an amount of time in the armed services, brewed a group of working-class citizens who don't trust a man with the middle name "Hussein" and think that time spent in college is a waste. Today, I actually had to defend my position on higher education being important. I had to bother to argue with someone who was against college. Another gentleman who works at a different school than the one I am at now had brushed off our thirty minute conversation about religious politics with, "All that college ruined you." I don't personally remember being a paragon of thoughtlessness before, especially since I had started college before having that job.

All loony old people aside, I'm hoping that I can keep a somewhat regular schedule with this blog, all I really want out of it is someplace where I can fart out an occasional substandard essay about current events, or governments of the world, or whatever the hell else it is I happened to be reading about that week. Barring any regular schedule, I hope that I actually write something here when I come up with it. I'd better save any idea I get in my head, because lord knows that I'm going to be famous for something someday.



Also, I have absolutely nothing against Led Zeppelin or people in the armed services. I don't necessarily agree all the time with Led Zeppelin or people in the armed services, and there are occasions where I will be frustrated with Led Zeppelin or people in the armed services, but I certainly do not hate them.