My rantings, musings, and the overall verbal diarrhea of optimism that leaks out of me.
Sometimes, time seems to crawl by. I’m sure all of you can relate to those moments. Maybe you were trapped in a boring meeting at work, watching the minute hand on that bromidic clock lazily make its orbit, mocking in its languid tick, tick, tick. Or perhaps it was that class we were all forced…
One of the things I am learning about myself is that I often fear the unknown. In the case of Science Fiction this month, I was filled with so much trepidation about the genre that I had inflicted writer’s block upon myself. Up until last night, I was so worried that I didn’t have the…
I am currently at the midpoint of a class I had been both anticipating and dreading for the past six months. Anticipation because I think very highly of this professor – he’s by far one of the most intelligent, kind, and gifted people I have ever met. Dr. Simone Caroti is a brilliant instructor I…
Make lemonade. Then start a lemonade stand charging $0.75 per glass, with a net profit of $0.54 per cup sold. Upon reaching $250 in gross profit, sell franchise licenses [at $50/pop] to five others, reinvesting those profits into purchasing better quality lemons, sugar, and filtered water. Charge the franchisees 20% per diem of their gross…
Want to know how to absolutely make an optimist’s day? Tell them that they’ve been nominated for the Sunshine Award! How cool is that? I was nominated by Alli, a beautiful girl with an incredible blog that EVERYONE should check out: http://exhilaratedliving.wordpress.com/. She’s a recovering pessimist, who discovered the joy of positive-thinking and…
It’s funny how an optimist, such as myself, can find a silver-lining to even some of the worst experiences of their life. We’re annoying like that. We look for [and always manage to find] the good in people, in bad situations, and at the lowest points of despair, tragedy, or anguish. For example, when I…
While cleaning through some old files on my laptop [aka, procrastinating on homework], I stumbled upon the speech I gave at my best friend’s wedding back in March. She and her husband moved to Texas a few weeks back and I’ve been pretty melancholic about it, as I had become pretty accustomed to having my…
Ok, ok… so this shouldn’t really count as a publication, because it’s not a piece of creative work I did or anything that required a lot of effort on my part, but I’m going to count it anyhow. Remember that Entertainment Writers Panel I was raving about last week? Well, the summary I wrote…
This post is going to be short and brief, as this is my first “real weekend” in several weeks and it happens to be three glorious days off! I’ve been putting in a lot of overtime lately, between both school and work, and finding very little time to enjoy some of my favorite things, such…
Ok, my first poem and script have officially been published in Full Sail University’s literary magazine, The Aviator. Woohoo! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MAGAZINE: http://media.fullsail.com/LMS/facdev/Aviator6.air.zip [Make sure you have pop-ups disabled – you’ll need to install an application to view it.]
Victoria Elizabeth Ann 