This blog's name is a lie (but I'll keep it anyway)

This blog's title is no longer true. I'm no longer a home-shackled traveling spinster...

I actually just mean I'm no longer home shackled. I've got an office job now. And get this, I'm an assistant manager. That may not mean much to some, but it's a pretty good thing to be. Mostly because I don't have a boss here in the Philippines. My manager is based in our company's headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

And speaking of Charlottesville, Virginia, I'm going there in two weeks! How awesome is that?!

Let's not talk about my US Visa adventures. Suffice it to say that I have a 10-year, multiple entry US Visa now. I'm trying not to wear it out by staring at it every so often. (Teehee.)

So anyway, Charlottesville. It's a college town, home of the University of Virginia Cavaliers and Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello. I keep forgetting what it's called. I even told my boss I was excited to visit Montecito. She asked me if I had plans of going to California the one weekend I was spending in the US. Oh well.

So what has me visiting my cobwebby blog? Well, now that I'm an editor again, I think I should brush up on my writing. Just so I wouldn't feel like such a fraud when I edit someone else's writing when I hardly do any myself.

This isn't writing for an audience because I doubt I'll ever have one.

I have no tutorials or ill-formed click-bait (I actually just learned that phrase last week) opinions to impart. This is just me spewing forth whatever it is that's bothering me or making me happy. Just those things. This is what I (emphasis on that since it's no one else's opinion but mine) would like to call my "creative" outlet.

Make of that what you will.

To grad school or not to grad school...

I've planned on going to grad school since 2010, but I always put it off. I was working full-time and the commute would basically kill me.

Now that I have a job that allows me to work anywhere with an Internet connection, I no longer have those excuses. I can always move to QC to be nearer to UP so location is not something I have to worry about.

So why am I still hesitating?

Well, my reasons for going to graduate school have nothing to do with improving myself. I just like the idea of having something going for me aside from my job. I need a direction, and school seems to be a good one. I have no idea what to do after graduate school, but I have two to three years to figure that out.

Basically, I'm just trying to buy time until a bolt of enlightening (see what I did there?) hits me and I finally know what to do with my life.

I wonder if that's a good enough reason to go back to school...

And even if it isn't, it's still MY reason. I think I'm going to go for it.

First Post

As my fingers hover on the keyboard, I am reminded why I don't really have a blog: I have absolutely nothing to say. Nothing I'd like to share to the world anyway.

I'm in my 30s now so I'm over all that youthful angst. Angst seems to be a good source for writing. I'm even over questioning what to do with my life. Honestly? I've given up searching for an answer. I'm currently just enjoying my life. It has nothing to do with Zen and serenity, but more along the lines of 'Actively feeling angst is bloody exhausting.' Lazy as I am, I try very hard to avoid anything that exhausts me.

And on to things that exhaust me: exercise. I know it should be done for one's own health, but I have absolutely no motivation to do it. That little machine in Mercury Drug has told me that I'm within my normal weight, more than a little hypertensive, and that I've been lying about my height this whole time. While the rest are true, I refuse to believe that I'm merely 5'1.45". I've always claimed to be 5'3". This will take a little getting used to. However, I've decided to still claim to be 5'3". It's not like people walk around with tape measures.

And that's about the extent of my thoughts right now. I'm just enjoying typing on my amazingly price, second-hand ZaggKeys Pro keyboard. It's a nice Sunday afternoon, and I'm here sitting in a coffee shop, enjoying this little reprieve before I go back and do OT work.

And with that, I'm out.

Here's to hoping I'll 'see' you soon.

*update*

A guy just came up to me and asked me about this keyboard. I believe I just made my first real-life gadget recommendation. :)