The Blog of Jeremy Scott, who is crazy about a lot of things.
A few others thoughts about my plan…
I have already installed a few plugins for wordpress and the K2 template. I will of course add a design to the site, that will also coincide with the lauch a small personal webspace.
I will soon be bringing the archived posts of my last blog and adding them to the archives of this one. It’ll be like I never stopped… just took a long break.
So now that I am back to blogging, what am I going to use it for? Well…
I am still involved in web design, though I would rather classify myself as a web programmer, because my designs suck while my code is beautiful. I write front-end in HTML/XHTML semantically with CSS for styling (a la the teachings of Zeldman) and I write back-end in PHP and Ruby on Rails (RoR). I am building a top-secret web application in RoR for professional artists that I aim to release by the end of the year. I expect I will blog about those things.
I am going to begin school at ASU next month and I am sure stories from life as a student will enter this blog. Posts about being a student (again), transitioning from community college to university, and about returning to school after a break are likely to appear.
Because ASU charges an ungodly amount of money ($780) to park on campus and an unholy amount ($280) to park in their glorified park-and-ride known as lot 59 (1 mile away and a 10 minute bus ride from campus), I will be riding busses and bikes to/from school. I have become very excited about my bike and all its potential benefits for me (save money, save gas, save the truck, save my gut) and for the world (save the environment) that I will be sharing a lot about my life as an alternate commuter in a not-so communter friendly city.
During my dark times between the blogs I picked up a hobby to try and release some emotions. Since then, me and my camera have been joined at the hip. For most of last year I was involved in a daily-self-portrait group and though a broken computer stopped me short of my one year goal, it hasn’t stopped my photography bug. Lots of photos to come!
Finally, I like to observe and comment on life, the news, and politics. While this blog will not be another piss-on-Washington site, I am likely to discuss some of my observations from time-to-time.
So, thats my plan!
Almost three years ago I decided to begin blogging, and then about two years ago I stopped. I wrote on the blog semi-regularly for almost a year, mostly about the two big things going on in my life at the time, my role as the Section Chief for Section W4C in the Order of the Arrow and my interest in web design (with a focus on user interaction). Then suddenly I stopped without much explanation. Now, I begin again, and try to pick up where I left everyone hanging.
I would love to say that I stopped blogging because I was done, that I was ready to close that chapter in my life, but I wasn’t. I loved blogging and I loved sharing my thoughts with the world. I stopped because I emotionally couldn’t handle it–not to mention the rest of life–anymore. I stopped because we kicked my Dad out of the house after months of emotional neglect and abuse. I stopped because in making that decision, and then coming to terms with its negative consequences, the simpler things in life passed by the wayside. Luckily, the positive consequences of that decision have begun to enter my life, and the days are passing more joyfully.
It wasn’t easy. I went from being a driven, efficient, effective, person to a person who could barely handle his chores and his job during his year off from school. When only months before I was a Section Chief in the Order of the Arrow, a full-time student, and worked two jobs, I suddenly found myself unable to perform the simplest of tasks without an overwhelming sense of frustration and a strong desire to procrastinate and walk away. The last year or so of my life has been unproductive… dare I say wasted. I choose now to move past that. I am ready to return to a busy but fulfilled life where shit gets done again–and done well!
So here we go again. I am blogging, again! Hope you all are ready for me.