Well then ladies and gentlemen. I last posted about three months ago...5 days after my 21st birthday. Since then, the Fall semester at WKU has started and I've been going to school for about three whole days and I'm already planning on skipping my World Literature class tomorrow (reasons will follow). A little about my summer first...

Summer was surprisingly superimposed on a vacuous vortex of rapid time destruction. If memory serves me right, I can't remember a good portion of the summer due to high levels of alcohol consumption and the over all general depravity at how awful the summer was. I kid you not. If it wasn't for a weekly tour to the bar I don't I would have moved from the couch...excluding the several concerts, trips to movies (watched district 9 three times), and random bouts of D&D.

So commencing with school section. This is my second year in the apartment with my friends (fourth year in college...hopefully graduating). As an English Major with a writing concentration, I have to of course read a lot and write a lot. I've never been much for reading what was considered to be the norm for college English students. Faulkner, Vaughnaget, Byron and hundreds of others. Granted all of said authors have GREAT works of art and most of which will never be usurped by any of today's contemporary authors, myself included. However still, among the copious suggestions of readings given to me, I still have yet to find one author that actually gets me interested in reading.

I am a natural slacker at heart. I do have hobbies so I'm not so rooted in the ground that I can't be picked from the earthy hold. I practice my drum rudiments for at least an hour a day, I cram at LEAST an hour of guitar lessons into the day. I just picked up guitar over the summer break and I'm in the middle of learning my first song (Seether's - Broken). After that, I stare at the books I've been assigned to read and then back to the illustrious glow of my computer monitor and think I'll start on my writing and all the ideas that I have...Honestly...I was going to sit here and complain that I don't have enough time to get any writing or reading done which is obviously a flat out lie. So, with that in mind...tell me I should get started on first.

For my class next Tuesday I will have a poem ready and probably the first page or two of a short story. I guess then what I'm looking for is a form of validation on my short story idea. I got the idea in the creative writing class that it was assigned for. We were on the topic of tolerance and who everyone in the class was expected to have an open mind about the subject matter of everyone's writing. "we didn't have to like, we just had to tolerate it" was a quote take from the teacher. So I was thinking of setting the story in an environment much like that in Final Fantasy 7; highly industrialized, busy streets, pixels...the whole shebang. The plot is, loosely right now, based four - eight people who are the founders and only members of this gang or coalition of intolerance. Their mission in the world is to give a shock to the system of the society and take the influence away from "tolerance" and bring back controversy. It is their idea that Tolerance weakens the world and everyone in it. From then on they play what seems to be the role of the enemy until their mission is completed and they once again have controversy (NOT Chaos). Alright, granted it's a work in progress and it's just a generic/vague plot structure but I'm just wondering if you think I could finagle it into a working short story.

Shit...I realized I just forgot to tell you why I wanna skip tomorrow's class...I'll tell you later. (if you all respond to this with some kind of criticism).