Post by ultramagneticac on Jun 19, 2011 9:09:43 GMT -6
Hello, friends and future friends. My name is Alex Smith, and I feel a little bit like someone who's been called to the front of a room to give a speech unexpectedly. Kinda sheepish, and my mind is blank. In person I like to do things like that, but here I can't use any hand gestures or variations in pitch or anything like that...
I tend to overuse ellipses and semicolons. If this post alone does not make that clear, just give it time.
When it's not summer, I attend MTSU, from which place in December I should graduate with a B.S. in International Relations. Hopefully next fall I will enter some sort of graduate program, and I'm researching that now, very casually and very slowly.
When it is summer, I work at the Dell plant in Nashville, loading trucks with boxes, and, seemingly, procrastinating real hard, even on things I want to do.
Participating in this forum, that is something I want to do. I don't know if I'll quite succeed, but the desire is present. When I was a child ("I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye"), I wanted to grow up to be a famous novelist. I had a clear sort of rationale for this, too - that, since I was an extremely ardent reader of fiction, I was sort of a consumer of it, and if I was going to use up so much of it, to pull it out of the fiction pool, I needed then to add some back into it. And of course, I always fancied the idea of similar awkward adolescents curling up on their couches on rainy days and escaping to another world, their passage provided by "Alexander C. Smith". I even envisioned my author blurb on the inside back dust jacket...
Doesn't that seem like a brilliant idea for a new thread somewhere? "If you were a published writer, how would your author blurb read?"
Anyway, yeah, if I use this forum consistently as I aspire to do, it will probably mostly occur in the fiction sections. This is not to say, though, that I won't end up elsewhere on the site, but I don't have all that much interest in expressing my political views, or my views on most other things for that matter. I just want to have my imagination stimulated, and to stimulate the imaginations of others, and in so doing build bonds of friendship that will last until... I don't know, until we don't need them anymore? Or something.
Also, I hope someone reads this.
I tend to overuse ellipses and semicolons. If this post alone does not make that clear, just give it time.
When it's not summer, I attend MTSU, from which place in December I should graduate with a B.S. in International Relations. Hopefully next fall I will enter some sort of graduate program, and I'm researching that now, very casually and very slowly.
When it is summer, I work at the Dell plant in Nashville, loading trucks with boxes, and, seemingly, procrastinating real hard, even on things I want to do.
Participating in this forum, that is something I want to do. I don't know if I'll quite succeed, but the desire is present. When I was a child ("I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye"), I wanted to grow up to be a famous novelist. I had a clear sort of rationale for this, too - that, since I was an extremely ardent reader of fiction, I was sort of a consumer of it, and if I was going to use up so much of it, to pull it out of the fiction pool, I needed then to add some back into it. And of course, I always fancied the idea of similar awkward adolescents curling up on their couches on rainy days and escaping to another world, their passage provided by "Alexander C. Smith". I even envisioned my author blurb on the inside back dust jacket...
Doesn't that seem like a brilliant idea for a new thread somewhere? "If you were a published writer, how would your author blurb read?"
Anyway, yeah, if I use this forum consistently as I aspire to do, it will probably mostly occur in the fiction sections. This is not to say, though, that I won't end up elsewhere on the site, but I don't have all that much interest in expressing my political views, or my views on most other things for that matter. I just want to have my imagination stimulated, and to stimulate the imaginations of others, and in so doing build bonds of friendship that will last until... I don't know, until we don't need them anymore? Or something.
Also, I hope someone reads this.