About Me
Righto, first things first. I have no idea what I'm doing. Writing a blog, life, anything... So please refrain from asking questions along the line of:
“What are you doing with your life?”
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
“Why aren’t you going back to school?”
The answers are as follows; I don’t know, somewhere I’m sure, and I don’t want to.
Awesome, now that that’s all settled you can know all the actually important stuff about who I am and what makes me so interesting that I think I need my own blog to share it all on.
I grew up in a small town in middle of nowhere (likely accounting for my lack of social skills and general awe at the things the “big cities” have to offer, like escalators). I was homeschooled most of my school career (yes, I’m one of those awkward, ill adjusted, nerdy, weird, Christian homeschooled kids). However, I’ve been told that it doesn’t show to much. Whew, maybe we homeschoolers aren’t so different from the rest of the world. Wait. Who am I kidding? We totally are
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise
Margaret Atwood
Yes, I did just google that quote to slap in here for effect. It’s not something I live by or even think about on every occasion. It’s just very accurate to my personality.
For those of you wondering, I did go to college, graduated, and I’m never going back. I’ve traveled to Europe (twice), seen the Eiffel Tower (did not disappoint), the Leaning Tower of Pisa (“a big leaning disappointment” according to one of the girls on that trip), most of London, and some other likely famous buildings and sights in that part of the world. Oh yes, and the gelato. It’s amazing I highly recommend, but it’s got to be from one of those street-side gelato stores in a European town (it just doesn’t taste the same over here *deep sigh).
Ok, what else. Oh yeah, I love to write (if that wasn’t obvious by this point). I wanted somewhere to release all the pent up writing creativity that strikes me a few times a year. I figured “why not share this brilliant gift with the world” (I’m kidding, my writing isn’t that great, but it’s entertaining most of the time).
Now, what brought on my sporadic love of creative writing? You guessed it (or if you didn’t that’s fine, I still love you), I read. A lot. As such, I’m going to give you a list of my top ten favorite books, because I believe you can tell a great amount about a person by the literature
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
True, some of those are book series and not just books, but hey where am I supposed to make the distinction? Anyway, they’re all incredible (at least in my opinion) and you should read go read them all. You're welcome for the unsolicited reading advice.
Honestly, I can’t really tell you any more about myself because, well there’s just, you’ll get to know me throughout the course of the future and reading about whatever it is I decide to post.
This is basically what my hometown of Salmon looks like