Random1

It's 10:26 at night, I have the urge to blog, I'm fighting off a cold--maybe it's in its' last stages!--and I have no actual subject. But I still want to write! Oh, to hell with it; I'll just write what comes to me!

I'm titling this Random1 because, as I said, there's no real subject this, and I'm sure I'll want to do this again. It's not completely random, and I'm not about to just write the first thing that comes to my head--don't want to do that. I was thinking about blogging about... The best way to describe it is that it's about how I got where I am now religion-wise, and then I thought, "Nah, I'll do that some other time." Maybe when I have some more blogs done. And then I wanted to do an old story of mine that I was working on, but then I looked and realised how little I actually have of it. About that--I actually have a couple of ideas about it, but I can never really seem to get them written...

I was going to go on about this sort of thing--that story, what's it about, ideas I have for other ones, and stuff like that, but then it hit me: I'm going to be attending the University of Arizona in a couple of weeks, and I'm both excited and scared--yes, I know, everyone goes through those feelings. Part of it is simply the transition from Pima College--even though I'll be taking one class there--to the U of A. Sure, I'm not completely unfamiliar with it. I guess it's mostly just the fear of the unknown--how different will it be, can I get through this... And then what? Where do I go from here?

As I said in my previous blog, I'm going for a Political Science degree. The truth is, I can't even really remember where I got that idea. Right now, I can't so much point at a certain event or person that made me think, "Yeah, that sounds like what I should do!"; it's likely more of a case where a bunch of different things came together over a period of time which brought me here. First off, I've been interested in History for basically as long as I can remember, but I knew I didn't want to be a History Teacher--I didn't think I could handle that--and working as, say, a Curator at a museum eventually just sounded interesting and boring at the same time. And yet, I couldn't help but feel like I wanted to do something relevant to history. While I was in Pima, I quickly figured out that Acting, while a decent hobby (if I could ever be bothered to get back into it), should stay a hobby. With all due respect to Business majors--I know that I know a few people who are--, as stable as it probably is, and as tempting as it sounded (if only because I thought I could do that), in the end I just thought, "Do I really want to be doing this for the rest of my life?" and answered, "No, probably not." I was already interested in politics, along with history, and I was looking to do something that would help out the community. I guess that's where it all came together.

For New Years' Eve, I'll probably just stay home. There's nothing going on at church--there was a party last time--so... I have no idea what I'll do.

Introductory Post

Hello, and welcome to my blog LDNester. I see myself using this to write about the things going on in my life, some of my creative writings, interesting things I find on the internet... You know, what many would consider the usual things to find here.

In a couple of weeks, I will be attending the University of Arizona after being a student at Pima College since June 2008, with the goal of completing a Political Science major (and a likely minor in Regional Development). (Despite this, I'll try not to post anything too political--certainly not out of disinterest, but because I'd rather not write anything too inflammatory.) Outside of school, I can see quite a few of my writings to be centred around happenings at church--no, not because I'm particularly religious (or because I'm getting paid by them), but because, frankly, I don't really have much of a life.

As far as creative writings go, I'll go into detail about those in January. Right now, I have a coupe of ideas--one that I'm trying to focus on the most--and at this stage I'd really appreciate some help with that. The truth is, that one I'm focusing on involves not only an actual story--I seem to be good with coming up with ideas for them, but implementing them is another thing--but the fact that it's from an alternate universe which diverges from our own. So, there's both the "I want to tell a good story!" and the "How to keep this all plausible?" factors in play, especially the former. Of course, I can just switch to what I was working on before that before it started to lose steam--don't worry, there's way less of a focus on the Alternate History element to it, and there's some actual story material to it that I can use.

Other than that... Nothing that I really need to go into detail about in this.

First Blog, and Merry Christmas

I sort of want to skip the awkward pleasantries about this being my first blog and get right to an actually decent subject. Maybe I'll do a more proper "First Blog" in a week, giving an overview about who I am and what to expect from this blog.

First off, Merry Christmas to any of my readers. I decided to jump the gun a bit here--I was originally planning on doing this somewhere around January 10 (more on why that's the case later), but I figured I might as well start now (Christmas Eve). As of right now, I'm in Maricopa, Arizona, where my Aunt Norma and Uncle Billy live--they were both originally from Texas. As far as Christmas goes, there isn't really much in the way of plans--if I were home in Tucson, I'd probably be at the Christmas Eve service at my church Grace to the Nations (that, or I might just attend the morning service). All I know for sure is that, for dinner, we're having burgers (not sure what we're having with it, though I'm having grilled onions and jalapeños on mine), and we might take a tour of the area looking at Christmas lights just did (say/think what you will--at least it's something). Christmas Day, I'm even more clueless. I doubt there'll be much presents due to the economy--not that I'm complaining much; these days I'm lucky if I can think of more than one thing I really want. Actually, we're celebrating Aunt Norma's birthday--we might open presents tonight (if we do, I'll post pictures of them in the next blog). On the 26th, I'm helping Billy over at the Food Bank--gathering food from the local stores, sorting them out, and the like.
The reason I mentioned January 10th was that, as I had originally hoped, I would be going with a couple of my friends from church (including Steve Peterson--someone I originally met back in Pima College--Spring 2010 semester) and some other from Minnesota on a Mission Trip to Hermosillo, Sonora--the capital of Sonora. The trip was cancelled not too long ago--same as the trip before--, but if we had gone, we would have been distributing clothes and feeding the locals, helping out at the local churches, evangelising, and a few other things. Part of what appealed to me about this trip, aside from getting to do at least some of that, was the fact that I've never been to Mexico--not Nogales, Rocky Point/Puerto Peñasco, or anything like that!--and I was really excited to be able to do that. And, before anyone asks, they've done this before. While there may be threats from Narcoterrorism, I have/had no fear about that (no one's died on any of these trips that I've heard of).

Well, that's all I can really think of for tonight that I can't just post in another blog.