Hobby

I'm Finding Time

Now it's become apparent that I've got a lot of time on my hands, so I'm thinking of taking up a hobby or learning something new. I don't mean like getting a really casual hobby, like stamp or rock collecting, but something more... my style.

Lately I've taken a lot of interest in designing and photography, so I might look into that as a field of interest of hobby. Then again, I've always liked coding and knowing HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL could really help me in the future if I ever pursue a job as a coder. I don't know. There's a lot of stuff I could do. I might just stick to reading for a while until I figure out what to do.

Writing is already kind of a interest of mine, but NaNoWriMo certainly fulfills my cravings for writing. I don't know what else I could really do. Maybe I should just do something wild, like make a simple 3D animation or really get crazy and start learning how to design games.

It'd be cool to be a game designer, photographer, designer, coder, or anything along the lines of that. They're all really cool professions that I would just love to have. Doing something that I actually enjoy.

A Lot Of Work

My cousin has been really piling on work for me (he's assigning parts from a grade nine textbook for me to do in hopes that I can skip grade nine and go onto grade 10 next year), and the stress and strain of that is kind of bugging me.

You see, there's this constant expectation from everybody that I'm going to become something special one day. I personally want to be something special, but I don't know if I'm mature enough, or have the work ethic to do so.

So lately I've been working a lot harder than usual in order to meet my family's standards. I've kind of already met their expectations because I've gotten A's in all my subjects (SO FAR). I'm doing a lot better than I thought I was.

NaNoWriMo takes up a lot of time for me and I'm just a little more than 5,000 words behind schedule. I'm probably going to do a lot of typing tomorrow and get half halfway to the quota of tomorrow. Essentially saying, I will be 6,000 words behind schedule if I don't type anything today.

Lina's Coming Back

My cousin Lina is coming back on November 28, so that's something to look forward to. It's going to be awesome having her back in Canada. It seems like it's been a long time since I've seen her (really just about two months I believe).

Anyways, today I'm a 9. Nothing to be seriously happy about, yet there's nothing gloomy in my life. I've become very conscious about words that I say too often (such as "so", "anyways", "probably", "lately"), and I'm trying very hard not to say words that I overuse. It's going pretty well so far.

"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Bernard M. Baruch