Operation 100 Thoughts In 100 Days

Apparantly by "Periodic" I've meant hardly ever.  I've returned, oh faithful readers!  By "faithful readers" I of course mean myself as I proofread this later, because let's face it, I'm likely the only one reading this or remotely interested in what gets written here.  Life has taken me for quite the spin since my last post, causing me to feel more and more desperate to improve my situation.  The fact that I earned a degree in Communications and Multi Media studies has manifested itself as a hot steaming pile of JACK SQUAT!  Still, I continue to send resumes into the ether with only the occasional rejection letter to show for it.  I have recieved suggestions that I should concentrate on my blog in the mean time to hone my craft and to build a body of work, but with the stress and time constraints of working two jobs, I find it difficult to find the time and energy to do so.  In the interest of full disclosure, I also find it difficult to become motivated, as I greatly question if what I write has any value to anyone who might read it.  I mean, you can throw a rock and hit someone with an opinion, so why should mine matter to anyone?  But, as Stewart Smalley once said, "That's just stinkin' thinkin'!"

So here I am giving myself a challenge.  Write 100 blog posts in 100 days.  No matter how long or developed, I am going to post something every day for the next 100 days.  For the next 100 days, The Periodic Whatnot will be considered The Daily Whatnot!  I make observations and have opinions, and I'm going to write to myself about them, damnit!  There are several things that have occurred since Bob Weir hijacked my rock 'n' roll show that I've thought about writing about here, and now some of them will come to light.  I may even stray from the usual frivolity of music & film to discuss the challenges I've been facing in everyday life, or I may not, we'll see just how personal I want to get, but two topics I will definitely be addressing here will be the new album from The Charlatans, as well as the backlash and really disturbing venom surrounding the new U2 album.  So I'll keep an eye out for those in the next few days.

I will say this, the main reason that I've been so absent from posting has been that 2014 was the most difficult, challenging, depressing and unrewarding year of my life.  Shit went down that I still have not recovered from and it has left me feeling completely exhausted and emotionally devistated.  The lack of any real improvement in my situation has caused me to try and do something different, even though I question if there is any point to doing this.  I question if blogging regurlarly will be of any point, as I really feel like I'm the only one who's interested in what I think.  But desperate times call for desperate measures, and at the very least, perhaps it will have some sort of therapeutic bennifit.  We'll see, for now I will feel good if I'm able to stick to this goal of 100 posts in 100 days.  So, as Marty DiBerggi once said, "But hey, enough of my yakin', let's boogie!"