Adventure #25: Adventures of a Flunking Honor Student

This will most likely be my last post on this blog. Last spring, after evaluating this blog, I felt that twenty-five adventures would be a satisfactory number, a good landmark to wrap up on.

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I originally intended to end this blog by December when I was officially a college graduate, but that last semester was too hectic for me. So, I'm posting this piece today, the day of my convocation (which I am not attending and am fine with; I am busy with other things and do not want to travel to it). I'm ending for several reasons. For one, I am a graduate and will no longer occupationally be a formal student. I am entering the professional world. Further, while flunking as an honor student may be an entertaining and fitting tag for the time of experimentation and accelerated self-discovery, success is more tolerable in the workplace. Also, I do not know if I will have time for this blog as I embark on other life journeys.

You may have noticed that most years I added ten posts (funny enough, this was never planned), but last year I had seven posts. I did not feel like posting much during that period. A person incredibly dear to me passed away. Once that happened, I spent the rest of the year broken until I graduated. Now, in this new year, I find myself seeking connections in whatever ways possible (usually in music and fictional characters) and had often unashamedly shared them on Facebook. I seem to be building myself again, and recognizing these connections and facets of myself and my interests is an attempt to take all the emotional pieces of what's left and establish them into something functional. I sense a reformation into someone new, whomever that may be. I am excited to see what comes of it.

I have been grateful for this blog and for the release and expression it has been for the last two years (Interesting Note: Originally I named the blog "Confessions of a Flunking Honor Student," so my first "adventure" was titled "Confession #1;" by the time I posted my second "adventure," I felt that "adventure" would be better for the blog). It has been a useful pasttime for me to put down my thoughts in an organized, tangible fashion (the internet isn't exactly tangible but close enough).

I now see that I could have taken this blog in a totally different direction, one more suitable for its title (what a fine time to finally being seeing this!). I could have posted funny stories about flunking and disappointment. I shared some, but I see that would have been a fun blog. Regardless, I took the blog in a direction that makes my mother laugh, because she thinks most of my posts sound fairly scholarly and thought-provoking, despite the supposed "flunking" theme.

I have been able to express different facets of myself and share them with others. Thank you for all that have read, for the few who have left comments on them, and for the many who have discussed my posts with me in person. I am glad we have been able to grow together and discover ourselves through each other.

The things I have learned aren't limited to what I have written. I mostly have tried to include the meat of what I had to say to condence post length and to remain private that which would be inappropriate to delve too deeply into or reveal. I do not know if I will continue with another blog. I will just have to see where life takes me and what of it I want to share and in what form I'd like to share it. I will leave this blog open for people to look at, if they so desire. Who knows?--maybe I will come back to it if the time is right (maybe during graduate school!...if I attend).

Below, I have linked my adventures. If any titles interest you, feel free to check them out. After all, they have been published for your reading. There's no telling what you may learn about me or yourself or may be entertained by or may be introduced to from them:

Adventure #24: Living Internationally/We're All in This Together
Adventure #23: You've Been Sexed!
Adventure #22: "Both Sides Now"
Adventure #21: I Had a Younger Brother in Kindergarten, even if My Parents Didn't Know

Adventure #20: It'll All Work Out
Adventure #19: Being Brave
Adventure #18: Too Immature for Kindergarten
Adventure #17: Silver Linings Playbook

Adventure #16: I'm Like a Barbie--Small, Beautiful, and Easy to Undress
Adventure #15: eBay Selling My 5th Grade Crush
Adventure #14: Good [Time of Day]
Adventure #13: Meeting the "Pop Perfection" of Darren Hayes

Adventure #12: (Social) Rules: Throw Them Out
Adventure #11: My Art IS Me
Adventure #10: Hey, There, "Friend." What's the Definition of a Friend?
Adventure #9: Decision vs. Circumstance (or Control vs. Chaos)

Adventure #8: Nothin' But Nettie
Adventure #7: Notes on My Study on People's Interests
Adventure #6: Keepin' It Real
Adventure #5: Check It!

Adventure #4: The Little Prince Personality
Adventure #3: Arrested for BUI
Adventure #2: Yo, Ga...Or How to See God (and Elves) and Be Happy
Adventure #1: Dumbing Down for the World

Blog Status

I know I have not written in a long while--6 months to be exact. I have been continuously busy. In fact, my break for the summer without significant responsibility consisted of 3 days--a short time for an unemployed college student. It's been a busy summer!

BUT, this blog has still been kept alive with lots of views, despite the lack of activity from me. It has received 78 views this month, which to me, seems like quite a bit for a nonpopular blog that hasn't received a new post for half a year. So, thank you--to all the people looking at this that I know and all those viewing randomly. All are welcome!

ALSO, One of my projects lately has been writing for, acting in, and co-producing/-directing a new sketch comedy group, Popsicle Stick Six Gun. We have several sketches we plan on producing and posting on Youtube. This is the first of the installments (WATCH IT NOW!):

First Order of Business

There are some few orders of business to get this blog going.  First of all, (A joke I made when I was six:  Q: What do you call someone who wears underwear on their head?) everything that has order and organization needs a leader.  Therefore, no leader for this blog is necessary, but in attempt to project fanciful excellence, I push for the establishment of a king and propose…......myself for the position.  Now, every king must have a queen, and naturally, I push myself for that position, too.  However, since self-propagation was never taught in the course of my sex education, we shall forego that step and leave the position of queen in negotiation. 

It has come to my attention that blogs tend to follow certain interests and often have specific missions and intentions for what their audience is to gain.  (A: A butthead)  In one sense, I propose we forego that establishment, as well.  I feel safe to say that I have no directional plan (in my life and) for this blog.  As I've thought of what I would want to write about, a variety of subjects have come to mind, mostly inner thoughts often not shared vocally, because of their cheesiness or because of my own uncertainty of their value to others (this sentence is the other sense, as opposed to the previously mentioned "one sense").

All in favor of what has (and has not) been determined, please say/comment, "Arr."  All opposed, don't say anything. 

…….

Thank you!

WELCOME

Every blog has that welcome entry.  So:

Welcome, kids!

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