Well, I got tired of 140 characters

Welcome to my blog!

I've been using Twitter as a random journal of my life, but here lately I've been thinking I need a few more than 140 characters to talk about all that is going on in my life. I have done some art blogging before that has gone fairly well, but for a while I've been wanting something a bit more broad. There's more than art I want to talk about! What about KonMari? What about EMDR? What about books and cooking and travel and education and science and writing and fashion and nerdiness and geekiness and everything else that I just love?

That is where this blog comes in. If you want just art without my ramblings on the educational systems of the world or the wonders of a good therapist while crying about Sherlock, I'm sure I'll have something to link you to soon. For now I'm going to be focusing on just writing what I feel like.

I'm pretty much going against every single "This is how you make money on a blog" book out there, but I'm not trying to make money. I'm just trying to create and share and ramble. I'll still tweet, but I might write more about what I'm thinking as well.

Goody.

Right now this blog is a lot like this picture. Full of ideas and potential and fairly representative of my life, but fairly scattered. But that's okay. As soon as I know what this sack of words is going to be like, I'll let you know. Maybe. Or I might not ever know anything other than I'm working on my own public diary and you'll have to work it out from there. 

Me too. 

I'm going to be working it out and also remembering how to write. I haven't written in ... years? Forever? Since the before times? I think I've been able to hold onto grammar fairly well but I must confess I never quite developed my own style (I will definitely write up the reasons for that; it's fascinating!) and I'm hoping this blog will help in the development of... I dunno. Something.

So... what do you need to know about me to enjoy this blog?

I suppose I'm a newly minted person. I've only just recently (August 13, 2015) developed a sense of self through therapy, and I shall be writing about that often because it's a good story. I probably won't write straight at it at first, but sneak up on it while I'm journaling everything else. 

I am an artist and I probably missed my calling as some sort of teacher/debugger/village idiot. I love doing art. I hate doing commissions. One day I will complete my physics degree. I never should have taken the job at a start-up in Philadelphia. I could be an astrophysicist by now living in a tiny house with a Tesla! ...well, at least an astrophysicist.

I speak a lot of different languages badly and I've lived all over North America. I am quite the cat person. I have very refined tastes, but I love tacky and kitschy just as much. I take serious things seriously and I take not so serious thing seriously. But I don't really take anything seriously. Or do I? This blog is supposed to help me with deciding what I care about. 

KonMari has been the most magical thing ever. I am pretty sure it's why my therapy worked so well so quickly. I'm single, but I used to be nuts so that's not surprising. I want children now but I used to not be so sure and past me was totes right to not want them. I told everyone I was thirty before I was thirty. Thirty has actually been a pretty terrible awful year, but tackling it as a real person has been very self affirming and quite satisfying. BRING IT ON! You have NINE more months to break me, 30!

All of this and more with a healthy dose of art will be in my blog. Also other things. 

And my sense of humor. I hope my deadpan delivery comes across. If not, I will do more periscopes and show more art. Or learn to write my humor better. 

Whatever works!

Welcome! Hope you enjoy the weirdness!