The Little Things

So, the infamous first post. I've never been quite sure what to do with these first posts in the past. But now that I am older and wiser, perhaps I have a better idea. I am at the point in my life where I need to make a decision about what I want to do with the rest of it. Do I want to persue a career in the field of anthropology, which i have a passion for and would be happily satisfied doing for the rest of my life i think, or should i persue something like journalism, which i have more of a love/hate relationship about but I am passionate about is either way (i.e. i either passionately love it or passionately hate it). I am also at the point where most of my friends seem to be wanting to move off in their own directions and settle into little routines with their new found post-highschool boyfriends. I am nowhere near the point where I even wish to settle into some comfortable routine with a boy. It makes me feel further separated from them, and more like they won't understand. This blog is more of a place for me to vent about how different I feel from them in horribly cliched terms and maybe, just maybe express some original thoughts of my own.

This is also kind of a place for me to exercise my writing, I try to make an effort to write everyday, and this will hopefully allow me to keep better track of it and maybe help with some character developement for my stories, and things like that. Also maybe if I write an interesting essay for school I will post it in here. There's a lot of possibilities...meanwhile, here's my summer reading list:

•Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
•Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
•The Color of Water: A black man’s tribute to his white mother by James McBride
•Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
•Sula by toni Morrison
•Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by jonathan safran Foer
•Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
•Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
•1776 by David Mccullough
•Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Ann Lamott
•The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
•The Peoples History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zim
•My Life by Bill Clinton
•Invisibly man by Ralph Ellison
•The house on mango street by Sandra Cisneros
•Gifted Hands by Ben Carson & Cecil Murphey
•Animal Farm by George Orwell
•On the road by jack Kerouac & Ann Charters
•I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
•The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
•A separate Peace by John Knowles
•Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
•Undaunted courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
•The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho & Alan R. Clarke

So far I've finished The Color of Water and I am now reading Aloft which is a lot harder to get into. The language in it is so caught up in itself and the timeline is hard to follow and it's a lot easier to read an uplifting book like The Color of Water than it is to read a depressing book as Aloft is so far...

That's about all I have to say for now. And it's time to go set up the rest of my blog.