100th Post!

Wow, has it really been 100 posts? The time sure has gone by. I remember three years ago when I started this guy; I was living in Michigan, looking for a full-time job and I couldn't get a manuscript published if I were one of Stephen King's kids. And now here it is, 100 posts later, and... well, I live in Florida.

Just kidding, gang. I mean, the facts above are all, well, factual, but I'm not as bummed with my lack of progress as you might think. Actually, a lot has happened; it's just been confined mostly to the areas outside of my writing career. How about a bulleted list summarizing the last three years?

• Worked at a library part-time while finishing college
• Submitted my first short for publication
• DJ'ed some weddings and grad parties
• Wrote my first script
• Wrote some short stories
• Won a flash-fiction competition (though I think there may have only been something like seven other entries)
• Received my first rejection letter
• Graduated with my Bachelor of Arts in English
• Excitedly accepted position working for an academic publisher
• Started 2009 with my first big move to a new city
• Got a cat
• Wrote some more short stories
• Submitted a second short for publication
• Came up with the idea for a second script
• Received another rejection letter
• Went on a cruise and met a special lady
• Maintained a long-distance relationship with aforementioned special lady
• Started 2010 with my first big move to a new state (to be with aforementioned special lady)
• Applied for jobs selectively, assuming that I was an exceptional candidate
• Watched savings account dwindle
• Started making stupid videos and posting them to YouTube
• Applied for jobs less selectively, assuming that the economy was to blame for my lack of interviews
• Started writing a new script
• Watched savings account dwindle
• Applied for any and all jobs for which I was qualified and would be reasonably compensated
• Watched savings account disappear
• Began my short-lived stint as a temp
• Watched savings account rise a smidge
• Submitted a third short for publication
• Lightning struck, killing laptop
• Applied for any and all jobs, period

And that pretty much brings us up to now. At this moment I sit in front of my girlfriend's old computer, which I have drug up from the storage closet under the stairs, and I write my first post since my laptop went kaput. As it happens, that little Acer was used to write probably 90% of my posts over the years, so perhaps it means something that it's now gone.

Maybe it's on to bigger and better things.