It's certainly been a while since my last true update on my life. It's Christmas Eve, I'm back home in Redwood City after finishing my first semester in college, and frankly, I'm quite bored.
Finals week was probably the most fun I've had all semester. No real classes to worry about, long breaks in between exams, only one actual exam aside from a few papers and performances. I got to do whatever I wanted, really, there was significantly less stress than I experienced in high school (three exams in one day? Who thought that was a good idea?)
Writing this article is a bit aggravating because I have one of the 2017 MacBook Pros, and since Apple is dead set on making everything as slim as possible, it features one of those newfangled butterfly switch keyboards. For those of you who don't know, a butterfly switch is a new device underneath each key on a keyboard designed to significantly reduce the amount of space in between the key and its corresponding sensor (a millimeter, about). This design allows for the keyboard to be even slimmer than before, and I suppose was meant to reduce the chance of dust getting under the keys. What Apple failed to consider is that if dust DID manage to get under the keys, it would be impossible to get out, and they would be rendered practically useless. Every time I used the letter h in this paragraph? A minimum of 3 tries to type it, each. There is no practical solution for this except blasting your laptop with compressed air (which failed). Another fun fact about these fun new keyboards: you can't remove the keys easily without breaking the switch. I'm getting it checked out later this week, but I'm expecting they'll have to replace the entire lower half of the laptop. $700 minimum if I'm out of warranty.
That aside, I've been thriving. But yes, I'm bored. No projects to work on for school, no gym membership to work off all those calories I've been accumulating. I spent all this work getting my PS4 and Wii U back up to the Bay with me from my dorm and I practically haven't touched them. I play Sims 4 a lot but honestly every time I boot that thing up it feels like I'm draining my life away.
This whole keyboard thing is giving me a headache so the rest of this post should be quite jumbled.
I've been watching a lot of Life On Mars recently, and it's fucking amazing. The British version, of course.
I started reading Moby Dick and American Gods. Vastly different books, both incredibly gripping.
I've been searching for something to create and found nothing. I looked for inspiration everywhere, even Sims 4. I tried starting a novel and then my keyboard gave up on me (headache much worse now).
Speaking of that, I don't know why I'm so scared of writing in fantasy. I guess I don't like that all I know are archetypes and cliches. I have to just go for it but I can't seem to get past the likelihood that what I make won't be great.
Brycegeist 2017 may be a bust.
I admit rap is a really interesting art form that I'm starting to listen to a lot more. I take back all the negative comments I made in eighth grade, Sam.
I was smart to bring my longboard with me. I left the house today and found a tree to sit in for inspiration. No such luck.
I have, however, found the topic for my next article on Odyssey. My Tourette's article (the same as my last post) is almost at a thousand views, and that is honestly so exciting. I'm so happy that my story is out there and I'm starting to bring attention to the negative stigma around Tourette's (which I've been encountering a lot more recently, even in Life On Mars).
I can't even type anymore. I hate this so much. Hopefully I can get this fucking keyboard to work properly so I can get back to making things on here. I can't be arsed to read my own handwriting, nor could I if I tried.
Things I'm Stealing from this break:
Hopefully a new keyboard
You don't always have to make great things
Sometimes you have to make your own inspiration
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