Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022!
Here are some things I’ve learned 5 days into the New Year:
JFK might have been in the closet
Gandhi was essentially a sex offender
MLK loved other women
Vitamin D can be toxic in large amounts
Fish Oil can be toxic in large amount
My Jaw may be misaligned
Wonderful!
COVID is still around and new restrictions will kick in on January 15th, I’m not excited for it. I was excited to get back into school for the Spring Semester but it turns out, that ONCE AGAIN, I’m on Academic Probation, even though I received an A in my class in the previous semester. I don’t know how that makes sense, and technically I shouldn’t have even been able to take the class but, here we are.
If things unfold the way I think they will I’ll probably use the next 6 months to write and draw a bit, maybe also catch up on shows and finish story ideas.
I’ve been getting encouragement in the creative department, being told to just stick with it, have patience, and work on long form writing, because my long form writing is better than my poetry etc etc.
I’m still frustrated however. And this, is of course, a personal problem, but I want what I want and I want it now.
I don’t know how much more poetry I can read before figuring out if there’s enough, or even if I want to write another book of poetry, but I have a few subscriptions to Poetry magazines expiring right about now and I might consider renewing them. Maybe one. I don’t think, after this recent exercise in poetry writing, that my poetry is good enough to submit to competitions for cash prizes. So I’ll put that on hold for the foreseeable future.
I’ve also taken a step back from developing NFT’s. I’m seeing what’s out there and I feel as if I want to develop something with more utility, something that isn’t just a collection. Of course, that will probably take more capital and knowledge that I don’t have to do, but from the knowledge I have gathered the NFT world is full of scams and exploitation. I mean I’m an artist that wants to get rich like the next one but I had to investigate why so many other well established creators on the internet seem so vehemently against the “digital revolution.” There are of course, others making millions in this brave new frontier and I want their success I just feel like I’m not producing anything right now that I want to sell the rights too. Not any personal drawings, maybe some photography, and no ideas for a series or even a collaboration. Although, and this usually happens to me, I am now generating a few ideas I haven’t thought of before, as I type and express my anxieties…
Anyway, nothing really crazy to report in on, just this monthly update. I paid off most of my credit cards, my Reddit karma is over 1K (after being -50 for about 3 years…) and other than not having a partner/relationship (which honestly, isn’t all that bad) life seems pretty good, if not decent.
I’ll take it, is what I’m saying.
Here’s hoping 2022 doesn’t completely suck! Even with COVID still looming in the distance.
Yuck.
happy New Year!