This Town

It's been a long time, too long probably, since my last update.

Not much has changed and everything is always changing, right?

For those of who have been following the adventures of me, you would know that I previously worked at a thrift store, pounding away like a zombie starved of the right kind of brains.

That's right, I said previously (also, zombie...because I follow trends I guess).

My current position is sitting on a bed at 5 in the morning, but my current job position is working the front desk at a hotel! Sometimes I drive the airport shuttle, sometimes I check people in, sometimes I answer the phone and say sorry to people's silly complaints, but mostly I have plenty of time to write my novel.

Yes folks, I'm writing a novel (no, not that one, a different one). I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, which is crazy times, mostly. Essentially, I'm attempting to write a fifty-thousand word first draft of a novel during the month of November. Why? Because I'm insane.

Also, in doing so, I hope to develop the habit of not only writing every day, but also using the first draft as a freer, less edit-heavy space where creativity can flow without worry for perfection. I think these are skills which perchance may lead to an exponential increase in productivity on the writing front.

Tonight, however, I've already done a great deal of writing and am only still awake because in about two hours a strange person is coming into my room to stare at the water damage in the ceiling. Believe it or not, I actually cleaned.

Before all this sitting and writing, I was at a Friendsgiving party with some fantastic new friendstrangertypes I'm slowly growing to love. It was fantastically brilliant in the way that only a packed house full of people I don't know well but who still jump at the chance to bless and encourage me with our similar loves and hopes and questions can. I am blessed to be in an area of the world where crazy, talented, creative, wonderful people can gather and eat tons of food and just be there in the midst of one another. Yes, it's awkward for the introvert sometimes, but that's why we have a tiny box for him that I keep in the back left of my brain. I let him out for exercising most nights around this time, so it's okay.

As far as music goes, I am not sure of the exact date yet, but the first new single in (for)ever should be "dropping" as they say in the next couple weeks. SO LOOOOOK OUT!

More on that bit to come.

Love you all, and I hope you're getting more sleep than me.

p.s.- check out my new acoustic video right here: CONSTITUTION HALL