Full Speed Ahead

I was sitting around wondering what to do this Thursday evening, having actually come home at a decent hour, and I realized that I haven't blogged in a while. Sure enough, upon logging on, there was my last post dated for October. Damn. I have been away for awhile and yet I haven't really gotten anywhere.

You might say that my life has unexpectedly gotten on a course that is programmed for full-speed ahead. I am still at the newspaper and doing great. There was a time, a few months ago, right around the holidays that I hit sort of a speed bump that had me struggling to regain control. It seemed that nothing that I did at work was going right from handing in enough stories a week to handing them in at a decent time. At one point I thought that I might lose my job, though my boss assured me that would never happen. I realized that I needed to readjust my controls. Now I am back on course with more work than I can handle a week. My desk has become a cluttered mess as my story list seems to grow more and more each day. More and more people are reading my work and I am actually being requested to go to meetings. People anticipate my articles and ask me when a certian article will appear. I am pumping out about 6 stories a week on average.

My writing, in of itself has taken a dramatic change and has advanced to a whole new level. Even my audience has noticed the change. I have become comfortable with the writing process now which is probably why my course load has increased. While before it would take me a whole day to pump out one story, I can now write two, sometimes three, depending on my mood.

The other part of my life is my new relationship that puts me on a level playing field. While my career comes first and I think it will for quite awhile, it is nice to be able to have company on those days outside of work, to fill in the hours that I would probably spend in my room being bored. I have done more in the past 6 months than I have in the past year, from concerts to camping, I have done things that I have never done before.

My future is looking bright and with each passing day, I become more and more excited. I can definitely see something big happening in the next year or so. Although it is not clear at the moment, I know it will show itself eventually.