Dusting Off This Thing

     Wow, long time no blog everybody! I thought I would've had more time and motivation to post once school started, but that didn't happen. Right before the semester started, my schedule got thrown for a loop when I was presented with an opportunity to take part in an interesting project with a few fellow Political Science students. That basically gave me an extra class and a semester long group project to add to my already full class schedule. Because of that and lack of motivation, I have been neglecting this blog over the last few months. Now that the semester and Christmas festivities are over, I hope to be able to get back into posting here somewhat regularly. I have a lot of ideas that have come up that I'd like to talk about, and it also helps to have a place to write down my thoughts. I often find it easier to explain how I feel and get across my own opinions when I have a chance to think about them and piece together my words rather than try to explain things on the fly in an active conversation. Maybe that's one reason why I prefer to listen in conversations rather than talk and take center stage.

     One of the main reasons I decided to come back to this blog was because now that I have some free time to focus on things that interest me (without feeling that procrastinator's guilt that comes with having more important things to do), I realized that I have a lot I want to say. Over the course of the last semester, a lot of things happened in games, politics and anime. For example, I had a full-on anime class at school and saw a lot of new films and series (at least new to me). Because of things like that, I have no shortage of ideas and material to talk about, but my school schedule didn't allow me to write new posts without feeling guilty because of the mountain of work I had to get done. Now that I have some free time while on vacation, I am free to post to my heart's content! Maybe I'll actually be able to keep this blog going and regularly post new and interesting material! One can only hope that life will be kind to my schedule.

    Before I start rambling too much and thinking up more excuses for not posting anything, I'd better wrap things up. I appreciate all the viewers this blog has garnered over the months as much as the people who have encouraged me to write new blog material. Stay tuned for new posts about anime, politics, video games and anything else that strikes my fancy! Take care everyone!

World Premiere!

Well it's the moment that hopefully someone has been waiting for: the first post on my brand new blog! Hooraaaaay yaaaaay! Hopefully you've taken a gander at the About Me and Policies page so you can understand a little bit about myself and how I approach the various topics I'll be talking about. Hopefully once you've read those pages, this blog will be more enjoyable for you.

I know some might ask why I decided now (at almost 20 years old) to start up this blog, but this is a decision that's been a long time coming. I first thought about starting up a blog last summer, but I didn't get solidly interested until near the end of sophomore year of college when I finally felt like I had something worthwhile to say. Once that happened, then I started seriously planning what I wanted to do. However, it took a while for me to actually put fingers to keyboard and set this thing up because of life taking up most of my time. Now that I have the free time and the willpower too see this through, the blog you see before you has come to life! I look forward to sharing some of my ramblings and observations with you, and hopefully produce something you'll enjoy reading. From the comfort of my desk, I'll be bringing to you my thoughts on a number of things in a hopefully entertaining and informative way.

I promised myself I wouldn't let myself talk endlessly in the first post, so I'm gonna end this post early like the awkward first day of school before I ramble on endlessly about nothing. I'll save my voice for a more interesting subject. I look forward to talking about stuff that interests me as well as your enjoyment of my work. See you next time, whoever you are that happens to be reading this!

-Kyle