My little forlorn place on the web - unpacking, hopefully I'll stay more this time

I know, I have completely abandoned this writing phase that I was in a while back. Is it because I am not very disciplined? Or is it because I have been working full time the past months and have felt too exhausted? Or is it that I have almost no access to my home computer due to the great pairing of World of Warcraft and my brother, which creates nothing but quarrels? It's all of the above, actually. Which makes me sad. :(

So today, I have a day off from work and inspired once more from so many recent things I have encountered, I decided that it would be a great idea to revive my little forlorn place on the web. How interesting, now I feel wonderful. As soon as I hit the keys I felt the joy of writing anything. You know, how you just speak without particularly editing much, just blurting out things? Well, maybe I've said this before, but that's pretty awesome to do when writing.

Anyway, the past few months have been some of the most productive time of my short little life. I think I should be excused by anyone who bothers with this blog (yes, yes, you guessed, no one I know actually reads this, but maybe that's a good thing) that I have not written anything since the first of January. The reasons? Work. Yes, I finally found a job. So after 6 months of disappointment, I got a job and now I am pleased to say that I have around 7 months working experience... fascinating! Thankfully, I am more than happy with the job. It took way too long to get used to it and I can bet ya that I was the worst one at the start, but after I got screamed at by a few people over the phone (one of them made me actually cry, from shock mostly) and a number of suggestions/criticism from supervisors I got my act together. I'm not going to get into much detail on the job itself, it's just a call center/helpdesk sort of thing. When I first understood that I had gotten the job I thought: "Well, welcome to the great big world of outsourcing." And yes, one of the questions people ask really is: "Where are you located?" lol

But I'm getting off topic. So I have a job, important point number one. :D And I have resumed my life drawing classes (or as I like to call them... drawing naked people classes... Since the obvious question after I say life drawing classes is what do you draw there? :P) I feel I have made progress and I love drawing so much. I have been considering applying to the National Arts Academy, but have not decided yet. They just had their exams and I will have to apply next year but that's fine with me, as I still have time to practice, prepare, reconsider and then go back on the first decision, etc etc etc. And there you go, yesterday, I felt that it was a decent idea and today I feel once more that it won't make any difference. But let's leave that unfinished as it is a long story.

Besides working and drawing, I have not done much. At least, not in the proportion of my working and drawing. :P But I have kept busy with different little projects and hobbies. Most of which again, will remain without exposure as I still have not acquired a digital camera. But I will be happy to share the many new things I have learned. Or as a little girl I sat behind in a tram said to her mother: "There are so many new things I am learning today." (yes, she said it in such a genuine tone, that it really affected me how wonderful that line was and how it came from a preschool-aged child)

But mostly, I'd just like to say that this is again an excuse post, but damn do I have a reasonable excuse this time. However, I hope I do have time from now on to write more. I remembered now how fond I was of this blog and I do want to record the little things I did or thought of and the little things I came across and the little things I'm interested in. Because after all, for now that's all I have as boring as it seems.

Oh and btw, I have decided to rename myself... from now on I am no longer Shadowplay (taken from a song by Joy Division) and can be addressed as The Girl with Ghost Fingers. It came from a conversation I had with Philip. As always, the bouncing off of ideas and random whimsical conversations garner a pretty funny things. But you can also call me anything you like... Robert calls me Ghostly or Ghostly Fingers. Hopefully, you get the name in the way I understand it, but it's one that I created for myself so I am sticking to it for now. No one has ever given me a nickname, except the little shortened versions of my name of course. I am happy that I have a sort of alias now.