Project March: TBD

It's the last day of February and I'm not sure what I want to work on in March. I feel like I should already have this figured out, you know? Like I should already be excited about what I'm slated to work on.

But not yet, I suppose.

The options include (but are not limited to):

painting (I have a few gesso'ed canvases awaiting my artistry, but is a pile of paintings going to fatigue my desire to paint in general?)
visual art (similar, but like, maybe I'll just make a drawing or a painting or something every day for the month)
music mixing (I have a MIDI keyboard that I'm ready to learn to create electronic beats of my very own... but should I wait to dedicate a month to that once I've learned how to use it better? I don't want to just be frustrated)
story writing (I'm on a writing kick, what with February being humorous essay writing, but do I want to have two months back to back be in the same genre?)

The answer is there are no wrong answers. I need to keep reminding myself that this is an experiment. And no matter what I choose, I'll be creating more than zero.

Maybe that's what this whole project idea in general should be called: More Than Zero. I like that.

Project February: Humorous Essay Writing

The What Humorous essay writing. The Why This one was an easy choice. I'm currently enrolled in a class at Second City called Writing the Humorous Personal Essay . The class only runs through the end of the month, so, bingo! I took Stand-Up 1 through Second City late last year, which culminated in a final performance in front of an actual audience. Now, it wasn't quite my debut Netflix special; it was friends and family members of mine and my fellow classmates, but man, what a rush. It was something I signed up for to get me outside of my comfort zone and something to push me to just try . I fully intend on taking Stand-Up 2 at some point during 2023, but I needed a break. It's exhausting going to a 3-hour class once a week where you're expected to perform and think on your feet. Not to mention that I feel I'm still changed from the pandemic, and I've grown more... anti-social? How It's Going The month is not over yet. And man, February has flown by. But...

The Year That Got Away

June was the last blog post that I wrote this year, which might seem like I fell off the face of my own planet, but it's understandable why that was a breakpoint in 2023 for me. June was so different than I could have imagined going into 2023. I spent ~3 weeks on the back side of June in Connecticut, house/cat-sitting for a friend. Things I experienced: the idea of living on the east coast the idea of living in a small town being able to go for a wide variety of hikes solitude homesickness new art experimentation cats The trip wasn't something I knew was on my horizon going into 2023. I had had this daydream during the pandemic that I could just pick up and go live anywhere for a while. My work was fully remote, so the world was legitimately my oyster. The part where I got stuck and never took the leap is the fact that I'd be paying rent at home, and also at whatever romantic location I chose to relocate to temporarily. So when I was asked by a friend if I wanted to stay in...

Project January: Personal Website Re-Build

The Thing Rebuild my personal website, from scratch. I'll get more into what "from scratch" actually means later. (Spoiler alert: I did it .) The Why I completed a coding bootcamp in 2017. Since then I've had the practical idea to create my own website. This means that I would code the whole thing, and not pick a plug-and-play/drag-and-drop solution, such as SquareSpace (which is the service I used for years). There's legitimately nothing wrong with that kind of solution, but I was like, "I know how to code. Why aren't I using it for my own practical use?" Beyond that, I'd be free to explore with my own designs, learn some new technologies and likely find a way to host the site for free. (I think I was paying something like $13/month for SquareSpace.) The Work Why Hadn't I Just Done it Before? As with many things in life, getting started was the hardest part. I knew that I wanted the site to have a sexy frontend (AKA, I wanted it to look goo...

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