Carnal Embrace

Yeah, it’s been a while. I don’t really know what to do with this blog. I don’t know what to do with my life. I need a job, and I need to figure out this future thing. Am I going to go to grad school straight after graduation? Will I do Teach for America? Wish I knew.

OK, maybe you can. I started real blogging on Blogsome, and for the most part I liked it. I’ve also experimented with Blogger, and found it not customizable enough (for what I can remember). I was excited about Wordpress until I realized I had to pay to alter my coding and I couldn’t put up Google Ads.

So back to Blogsome. Except that I can’t install nifty plugins. WTF? What’s a good blogging platform I can use that has the nice interface of Wordpress/Blogsome but a customizing capability that’s not overwhelming? I don’t want to build anything from scratch here–I just want a cool blog that has my touch. And sweet doodads.

I’m rethinking this whole grad school thing. What if I do want to blog for a living? I’m not sure I can picture myself being a professor, studying for the lit GRE (and taking it), being scholarly for the rest of my days.

What I’d like to do before class starts up again is makeover my personal blog and think about my own niche blog to work on, something on which I can put Google Ads and that people will actually want to read. Who knows? Maybe I’ll return to sex. I’ve had many brief stints. Now I need something to maintain until I graduate.

Maybe something literary, like Sparknotes but with a brain and some soul. A guide to English literature. Promising, n’est-ce pas?

I got my first A in my major today. I swear I’m not stupid–English at Cal is incredibly difficult. I should have been a French major. At least then I’d have a 4.0 GPA for my major.

Facebook is amazing, and I would probably have a real life if it weren’t around. Today (as in the past 10 minutes), I reconnected with an ex through a 28-point opening Scrabulous move. Also, let me not leave out that I found my brother (who is across the hall right now), and he is indeed straight.

Normal people would be sound asleep by now.