Hey Everyone,
I'm back, well, sorta. Courtney and I are still waiting to move in to our new apartment tomorrow, so it's still a bit of a struggle with very limited internet and all that fun stuff. Thankfully though, other things, for the most part seem to have gotten either better (school, work situation, writing, reading) or tolerable lately or less so (health).
To start with, well, my school situation has been fixed/solved for the moment, but it's likely to be a long term solution thankfully. I finally decided to cave in a bit and do what everyone had been suggesting and attempting to see if some of my personal IT work that I've done over the last few years would be enough to help get me into a Masters program. Well, thanks to the work on my firewall, which I use on my home network and on some of the small jobs I've done here and there, the school (Walden University) considered that enough alone to allow me entrance into the Master of Information Technology program with a concentration in Information Security, plus I'm being allowed to test out of some of the more advance courses though, the tests also proved I needed to get a more solid base of instruction on the low level stuff. So I start that on the 4th of September, and I'm excited for that.
Health wise things have taken a weird turn, my stomach condition has
either gotten a lot worse or something since I've been constantly sick
again for the last few weeks, but I'm finally caving and seeing what
exactly can be done to help with it at this point. So I'll keep everyone
up to date. (I threw this update in at a random point so I didn't end on a negative note!)
The work situation is still being figured out to some large degree, but I've more job applications out than I realized and now I've had to actually start turning down interview requests thanks to the time conflicts between them. Hopefully, I'll know something soon though.
So reading and writing kind of go together in a sense. See, I finally have managed to well, get back my reading mojo, to put it kind of weirdly. I've been on a run where I've read usually an entire book a day for the last month or so. I started with the books by Dan Brown, which were something I whole hearty recommend. From there I read the Hunger Game series, and a few books in the Star Wars novel series, starting with the one dealing with Revan from the old Knights of the Old Republic games. For it being a novel and taking me a while to place what was happening again, it having been years since I've played the games, this was definitely one of the best books I've read in a long time. Now I'm on to the Percy Jackson series and I'm trying to take my time with this one along with the whole moving thing and all.
Now the thing is with this return to me reading as much as I did at one point in time is that my writing has taken off. Currently I've been working on more than a few short stories which I'm thinking of trying to put together in some sort of collection and seeing what happens at this point. I'll keep everyone up to date on how it goes and maybe even put up a selection from one of the stories once I have internet at the new apartment and time to settle in.
Alright everyone hope everyone is doing well and everything, time for me to get off of here and get ready for my doctor's appointment, so fun stuff!
Josh
