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Making Pitches

Or reaching out to indie pubs on Twitter who may be having a difficult time getting people to submit to them w/ the offer of a well-written pitch, but more importantly, a VERY well-written story for them to publish. I am not going to accept money for this article, I just wanna add to my portfolio (or, START my portfolio). I am v proud of this article and I have many more that I would like published and I am working on that.

We'll see how this goes (staying positive!) :)

Hello, folks

Been offline mostly the past couple days because I have been using the hell out of the MacBook Air which will not connect to my WiFi. Or at least not for very long. I am going to have to fix this at some point. In the meantime, I am fine w/ just using the tablet. Mostly.

Anyway, tomorrow I go to the sister’s (new) house and hang for a bit and then I am going to do some meaningful writing late into the night. Both tomorrow night and tonight. I am not 100% sure if iBooks Author is installed on this machine but if it isn’t, I will install it. And then I will start (re)editing “Essays” and making the whole thing look pretty. I still plan on publishing it eventually.

Be back in a bit!

Closing Twitter

I closed my Twitter acct. I have no use for it now that I am on Mastodon. I would like to say that I will never use Twitter again, but, we'll see how it goes. I was simply checking on a different acct I have on there and twitter was not working at ALL. This is probably a good thing.

So, let's get busy!

holy shit.

I was expecting an “in good shape” MBA when this thing arrived and this machine is f.l.a.w.l.e.s.s.! #Damn! It has better specs than the last MBA I had in 2015 and this has a backlit keyboard! I didn't even see that on the spec run-down.

Anyway, I am spending a good amount of time on mastodon.social so if you want to reach out to me, I am on there (@tomskee). I also have a litebytes acct on there because I have given up the Twitterverse (even though the lb twitter acct remains on there until I...idk. Just want people to be redirected to Mastodon is all.

now that I have a GOOD machine, I can finally go all-in w/ #100DaysOfCode + the #EdX course I wanna take. But the 1st priority is to get into STLCC. I know I have said all this before but it is worth repeating because this is what I am concerning myself with the most these recent days.

Now to clean up the Mac a bit :)

MBA arrives tomorrow. I also am not going to be home most of tomorrow. Have #therapy + a lot of other things. Will be doing a LOT of #writing when it arrives. Will also be journaling more in a good #offline writing app. I will also import all of the documents that I have on the flash drive onto the MBA (resume, writing samples, e-books (that I wrote), etc.).

The loan discharge paperwork has been sent off and it is still under-review. If it get approved, great! I will make the arrangements at STLCC for a Fall 2018 semester. And I am expecting it to be approved, BUT, the Fall 2018 semester may be out of reach as far as deadlines go. If this happens...

...I will enroll in the EdX Intro To CS course (offered for free) through HarvardX (no, it's not the same as attending Harvard (unfortunately)). After that, #100DaysOfCode will commence. I must learn to code. One way or the other. I have the best app idea and want to build it independently. With nobody else working on it. This is a good idea, I think. It would be impossible for me to make the time to do this if I were to be enrolled at STLCC. College is the preference/priority. But I have a damn fine backup plan.

So this is where I stand right now.

Here we are Now

So, a short bloggy post because I am on a virtual keyboard.

Status:

  • Loan discharge is still in the works and I have one more form to fill out and send away on Wednesday

  • I met w/ Kevin and nothing terribly eventful was discussed. Just checking-in, I suppose.

  • I have been journaling a LOT #offline in a notebook and enjoying it immensely.

  • I am buying a MacBook Air + school supplies tomorrow evening. Cool stuff!

So, all is good in my corner of the world. Happy.

the loan discharge (cont...)

all of what was previously stated in the last blog post is good news, and i am holding out a littttle hope, but i am not getting my hopes UP. what it is is what it is. i am not very concerned about the whole thing. I mean it is pretty important that i do not have government debt hanging over my head, but as far as STLCC is concerned, not gonna rush it/even expect to attend. Long story short, I was fucking crushed yesterday when they said I was missing a form in the paperwork. Really crushed. If I can send it in and get it discharged and then enroll (s.u.c.c.e.s.s.f.u.l.l.y) at STLCC, then fine. If there is another hang-up where my enrollment doesn't take-hold or if I miss a god damn comma or forget to do something, fucking fuck it. I won't keep chasing my tail.

in fact, I may not enroll at STLCC (or even try) come this next semester. Or any semester. I am pretty happy with just doing what I planned on doing (hustling harder). I will do everything in my power to get the loan discharged. I don't give a fuck where I go from there. #exhausted

remember that loan discharge?

well, they said they are reviewing it and should they need any more documentation, they will contact me with 7-10 business days. The way I see it, that means I have those days to send them the missing form that they need to approve it.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to go to college, really + I will not be approved quick enough to enroll me in the Fall 2018 semester anyway. But it would be nice to not have $970 hanging over my head.

So I will send in the form that they need after I print the form that they need. Printing Saturday, sending Monday (when I have access to a fax).

Things look good.

Work Harder And Smarter

So, STLCC is no longer an option for me. Tried to get funding, failed to get funding, life moves on. So I will focus on just that; my life!

So, in under a week I will be ordering my Chromebook (a good one) and then I will haave the computing power to do what I need to do in terms of writing, getting an EdX certificate, and building my resume. A writing samples page will have to be put on (on Medium.com perhaps?) and I will organize the book for future (self) publication in the months to come.

These are things I am doing.

i am sick of life

i just made this blog public again (bc why not?) and i suppose i will start it off with saying how fed up i am with...everything.

I am sick of my family (that never stops needing things)

I am sick of acting like i like everyone all the time, when really i DISlike most people

I am sick of acting like I am going to actually quit smoking/get healthy/turn my life around in front of doctors, professionals

I am sick of pretending like I am doing all I can to attend college (as of today, it is certifiably impossible for me to attend college thx to this morning's news, so, there's that)

I am sick of pretending I am going to start an online business or create an app

I am sick of being someone I am not

It's a headache

Onto living a better, more fulfilling life