Beginnings

So, this is at least the third blog I've started in my internet career. Frankly, I'd rather not look back at previous attempts; I tend to be hypercritical of my work. I doubt there'll be much to post before I ship out to basic in March, but we'll see. I know I won't be able to blog in basic, but hope to really start when I get out in... May, I believe. Still, I'll try to be as consistent as I can be.

At the moment, my life consists of lazy mornings, most memorable for their distinct lack of coffee (mostly), doing odd jobs around the house until I leave for work around 2, and then closing the store (a local grocery store.) I'll get online and chat with friends until I get tired and head to bed. Unless a few things work out for me, that's my schedule for the next 9 months, aside from this morning and tomorrow morning, where I was unlawfully and unwillingly dragged from my warm, soft, comfortable bed at 0400 to go to work. I hate when people ask for time off. I should be the only one with that privilege! It wouldn't be half bad, actually, if I was working that shift regularly. It's actually nice to have a day to get stuff done in. But shifting from a 0100 bedtime to a 2200 bedtime isn't easy.

Due to my redonkulous amount of free time, I have lots of opportunities to think, which is a double edged sword, which has led to a lot of examination of my own philosophy. Other popular topics include: heroes; justice; chivalry; gender; revenge; the nature of man; & adventure (or rather my thirst for it).

I guess I'll wrap this up with a few of the questions that have been bothering me for a while, as well as a quote.

- What is a hero?
- Does chivalry recognize self?
- How much weight should epicness hold in my decision making process?
- Is Rorschach Lawful Good or Lawful Evil? Or maybe, What alignment is Rorschach?
- If a man with photographic memory walks into a bookstore and memorizes a book, did he do anything wrong?
- What would G.K. Chesterton do?

"No one doubts an ordinary man can get on with this world; but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it?" G.K.C., Orthodoxy

Anyway, that's it for tonight.
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