Getting Better

Well, I see I got my first follower on this blog; hooray for me! Things are looking up for the most part; I haven't had anyone turn up trying to ransom my own stories to me and nor have I seen any new novels floating around the internet with the words 'New' and 'Earth' in the title so all seems to be well, at least for now. Pretty soon, as soon as finals are over, I'll be able to devote actual time to this blog instead of half-assing it most of the time. I'm starting to think that in the time being, I need to devote some time for school work as the semester comes to a bloody and screaming end.

As it turns out, though, finals are just as ugly as they've always been. They are and always will be the academic equivalent of a horrible crawling Lovecraftian abomination, a monstrosity that cannot be stopped and nor can it be placated by human sacrifice. In the end, it will always explode your mind and give you one hell of a headache. Even something so seemingly simple as biology 101 seems like a chore at this part in the semester due to burn out and general disinterest on my part toward an extremely lower lever class. 

On top of all that, I find once again that signing up for next semester's classes is more difficult than it should be. Once again - I don't know how I fucking keep doing this - I lost my pin number I need for online registration and now, because they are slowly phasing out paper, the school requires us to sign up electronically. Isn't that special? So now I have to face the scornful looks of my advisory professor just so I can get my pin number back. Eh, all things considered its par for the course.

Not off to a good start...

Well, as it turns out my first post isn't going to be a happy one. Two days ago (November 6th), my fiance and I went to go see the TSO (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) show that visits Charleston annually. In the hours before the show, we must have went to about a dozen places. We walked across a transit mall, through an art store, into a sushi place and all throughout a mall. The show was awesome and it was, and I don't say this lightly, the hardest rocking I've ever seen. After the show, I even went out to eat at my favorite restaurant with my best friend and his wife.

Now, has anyone ever had one of those days wherein you just know you're having way too good a time? You think to yourself: 'Wow, something has to go wrong here.' Well, something did. My brand new bluejeans that I had bought the day before from wal-mart (death to the smiley face), apparently had a hole in the left pocket - a brand new pair had a hole! Well through that hole, I lost my jump drive which contained my treasure-trove of literary works, all of them in fact. Thankfully, I have copies of all of it on another jump drive, but that's not really the point.

I don't know if you can really understand this without being a writer, but just the thought of someone else - a complete stranger - reading through my works and holding just about everything I've ever written in the palm of their hand is...unsettling. I'm a little afraid that someone might be unscrupulous enough to claim my works as their own, simply replacing my name with their own on the title page. Now, I do have multiple forms of proof (one of which is this blog) that the titles of those works and the content are mine and mine along. I have rejection letters, documents and dozens of people who will vouch for me if it came down to some kind of legal battle, but still.

It is because of this, my most recent of blunders, that I feel compelled to list all the names of my literary works on this blog so that, if it happens and my stuff gets stolen, I'll have dated proof that the titles are mine and that I actually wrote about losing them. Feel free to ignore this next part if you haven't already.

Novels: "Flight of Eagles," "A Three Edged Sword," "The Last Deep Breath," "Come, Full Circle."

Short Story Collectors: "One Black Rose and Other Tales."

Short Stories: "A Courtly for Tycondrius," "Macbeth (Short Story Version," "Purple Man," "So Burns the Wicker Man," "The Door in the Mountain," "The Endless Corridor," "The Lonely Man," "The Thing in the Blackbole," "Within These Walls."

Poems: "Antimatter Dark," "Azure Blue," "Battle Song," "Destroyer of Worlds," "Overthrone," "So Much Like Morrigan," "Sum of all Endings."

Dungeons and Dragons Campaigns: "A Line in the Sand," "The Tygian Conflict," "Murder of Crows," "Shadows on the Frontier."

There, that just about covers it, I think. The Dungeons and Dragons campaigns are actually based on my literary works so I thought it was prudent to compile them here as well. Next time, gods willing, I'll have something interesting to talk about aside from my near loss of my entire life's work...bloody hell.