Merry Christmas!

Look! I made you a present!

Well, actually, this is a present I made for a friend. It's one of a pair of hand knit, thigh-high stockings with something resembling this stitched into the foot. I want to do something special for all of you, though, so until this friend receives my present, consider these stockings all yours. And I wish you all a marvelous, joy-filled Christmas!

Feelings: A Great Debate

Well, two debates actually. They both started this afternoon, when I was getting all sad and stuff and heard a particular scripture. On one stage is a debate between secular thought and, of course, the Bible. On another is a debate between Emotional Me and Rational Me.

This is the transcript from debate no. 1:

S: Express your feelings and be true to your heart. Bad things happen when you deny your emotions and hide them.

B: Jeremiah 17:9 - "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Don't trust your feelings, ladies and gentlemen of this glum young man's mind.

S: But isn't emotion driven, at least in part, by needs and desires? What sort of life can a man live if he denies himself of these things?

B: To the contrary; emotion and needs are two mutually exclusive things.

S: Um, not really.

An Introduction

Welcome!

This is my brand-new blog. I hope it goes well. I hope that I can write a coherent blog post while I'm watching Mythbusters. That's not very likely.

Anyways, I started this blog as a means of self-expression, which is why everybody starts a blog, I guess. I feel like maybe I should express myself more. Creatively, in particular. Hence the title.

 I should probably mention that I have this fear of my blog becoming entirely self-absorbed and obnoxious. That's because it would seem that there are far too many blogs that are entirely self-absorbed and obnoxious. That's because I had a blog before, and it became entirely self-absorbed and obnoxious. It was this project I had for myself where I posted nothing but critical reviews of music, movies, and books. I wrote some pretty good ones, I think, but the whole thing got to the point where I was writing nothing but contrived, gushing, obnoxious suckiness. Also, I ran out of time to write it. So I stopped. Don't ask where it is. I'm not telling you.

I may write more reviews of things. I'll be posting all sorts of things. Basically, anything that I find relevant to my interests, I will put here. I'll try not to post too many details of my day-to-day life. I don't care much to recount them. Basically... Well, basically, we'll see.

That took me about an hour. Mythbusters is a hell of a drug.

UPDATE: November 11, 2012. This blog ended up becoming entirely self-absorbed and obnoxious in ways I didn't anticipate when I was 19 years old. It's been a year since I've last posted on this blog, and now people are starting to find it again. In my embarrassment, I've returned and deleted many of my posts which were better suited for a private diary. This blog is no longer a "means of self-expression," which is definitely not a thing that lack. I'll simply post anything I create: songs, compositions, crochet patterns, short stories, and the like. I hope this will make this blog at least slightly less obnoxious. I can assure you that these posts will not happen very often.