Christmas and Onward

It's been a bit of a blur lately, it's been late nights and long sleep-ins, presents and good hopes. I've done a lot of interviews and landed the job I wanted. Now I'm standing where four months ago I decided where I wanted to stand.

I'm excited, I believe anything can happen now. I am ready for the next part of life, the next batch of lessons to be learned and experiences to experience. Later today I am going to start ringing people about an apartment in Malahide and then at some point I'm going to move up there. Then, at some point I'm going to start a new job.

Everything will benefit from this, I tried the full time writing thing and I found I was not ready yet. Something is still unsatisfied inside of me, I want to go out in the world again. As Talking Heads put it, I want to live. I'll write about it later.

Blurb 2 - Tiernan helped with this one

North of the Royal territories, the path of knives, three strangers meet under a red sky. A student of the art, an ex-royal assassin and their smiling guide.

Together they steal the diamond of fate but in acquiring it become pawns in an ancient conspiracy; setting in motion a series of events that leads armies to clash, ambitions to rise and a prince to fall.

A Lost Poem

Caught Mother throwing out some of my old stuff today, among them was an ancient soggy notebook from my old work. Like anything of mine from that era it has a few poems in it, here's one.

Frustration, it's like some dirty word
When unhappy, be unheard.
You frown, so be alone
I will not call you on your phone
Do run, do hide, you do not fit
So find a rock and hide under't
You can not see the life I see now
Your dreams are not the same.
Why should I listen when you are so to blame.

My happiness is fragile
One moment and I could be you.
So keep your distance please
It's worse than any flu or disease
I'm really quite frightened, please
I want to help you but can not
You see, you remember,
What I forgot.

I've travelled to the other side

I've done little writing in the previous few weeks and there's been little to report on unless you really like page by page recaps of constant study. Yes, I finally got around to taking that Sun Certification exam and I was taking it seriously. I took a chapter a day and yes, I got 75%, it's pretty awesome. I was damn happy with the result but less than happy with the massive head ache I was left with at the end.

The study brought with it a new wave of enthusiasm for technology, I'm making a new Java game now that has just reached critical mass and the design decisions are getting harder and harder... Anyway you don't want to hear about all that boring stuff.

I'm back on track now, I promise. My new writing project is going well and I really need to give Tower some TLC. It's been a difficult book to write so far because I probably made a little bit too personal. I can't go a paragraph without digging up some obfuscated personal truth that I need to spend the next few days galloping after like a fox in the mist. I do not support fox hunting, I just liked the image.

My other project is simpler, probably more fun. It's more based on an abstraction of myself, or to more specific an aspect of myself that doesn't get much attention these days. I'll write more about it once I have more done, although I'd really like to get Tower finished before I dive into it proper. Although perhaps they do form a dichotomy... (Awesome word, isn't it.)

I have walked the path of the super nerd and I have returned victorious but I shall not forget my other goals!