Jon Furniss

It’s not just that I’ve been busy, although I have been busy.

But yeah.

I got my own domain name finally, so this is going to be the last post on here ever.

From now on I can be found at:

Jon Furniss, etc.

It’s hardly set up at all yet, but that’s just because I’m lazy.

I’ll take care of it eventually, don’t you worry.

But I hope those of you who have faithfully e-stalked me through the years will continue to do so over there.

Thanks!

It was somewhere around the time that people started to tell me that I was good at writing that I got scared of it. Once people have expectations you can fail to meet them. I was okay with writing and trying and putting the passion I feel into words before people told me I was good at it. But once people started complimenting me I became utterly afraid of failing. I’ve never seen my writing as anything special, so I was always afraid that people would start to realize that and get let down when they see me writing. Or else maybe they would think that I was all cocky and thought I was good at writing even though I’m not. I don’t really know.

I think that’s the real reason I changed my major. It isn’t because I really hate writing papers. I’m just too scared to try hard, and fail. If I didn’t try on my papers and I got like a B or a B- I was perfectly alright, because hey, I could’ve tried and done better. But if I try and don’t do as well as I expect, then I’m all like, “hey, I’m a failure.” And I don’t like failing.

But writing isn’t always right. No one gets it right all of the time. I need to be able to keep that in my mind and be more than just able to say it. I also need to remind myself that I can still change my writing after it’s already been written and that that is actually common practice and encouraged. I always seem to have trouble going back and proofreading and editing for whatever reason.

The point of all this is? I want to start writing again. I don’t know what I want to write. But I want to write something. I need to write something.

So Thursday’s post was the first of (hopefully) many guest posts by Joyceline. As I’m sure you can tell, she’s pretty awesome. She’s prettier than me (which isn’t hard) and she writes better too! The other exciting thing about that post is that it was the 100th post for this blog, so yay, let’s celebrate!

School is almost over for me, I’ve got two more days of classes and then four finals next week. I should have all A’s, except for my economics class, which at this point I don’t even know whether or not I’m going to pass. But then after that is summer! My busyness will continue, but life will be much lighter and easier with this burden off of my shoulder. I’ve got lots of fun plans for the summer, so it shall be cool.

I also intend on updating much morer when school is at an end. It’s not that I spend a lot of time doing school work or even a lot of time at school, but the weight upon my shoulders somehow stops me from actually doing things other than lying around and not accomplishing anything.

I’ve been reading a lot lately. I love reading, but I don’t always like myself when I’m in reading mode. When I’m in reading mode every spare second I get is spent reading and not doing anything else. I read before I go to bed, I read when I wake up, I read when I eat, I read alla time. I then never end up doing things like playing video games, or watching TV (I’m at least a couple episodes behind with Lost), or surfing teh interwebz, or blogging. But yeah, reading is still cool.

I’ve started reading Star Wars novels again. I think I read my first ones back in like fourth grade or so and I instantly fell in love with the Star Wars expanded universe. I just read The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn, which many diehard Star Wars nerds consider the final trilogy of the Star Wars Nineology (I know that’s not a word, so shut up!). I am now starting to reread the Star Wars X-Wing series, which is my favorite Star Wars series. It follows Rogue Squadron, the guys who blew up a couple death stars and such. Wedge Antilles and Corran Horn are my heroes and the two Star Wars guys who I have mancrushes on. So there.

Anyway, I guess my point is that if you’re a nerd at all, especially a Sci Fi nerd or Star Wars nerd, then check out some expanded universe stuff, because there’s lots of fun stories out there. I can recommend some books if you want to know any to read. =)

On a completely different note, Iron Man was pretty incredible. I saw it twice, and it was excellent both times. The humour was well placed and actually funny instead of the far-too-corny superhero comedy you normally get. The action scenes were intense and exciting and all edge-of-your-seaty. The story moving along scenes were also all well done, the movie did not seem to move slow at any parts. So yeah, definitely go see it, it was excellent. I give it two stars and five thumbs up, or something like that.

So let’s talk about The Office… What is going on? It’s not funny any more… It’s still interesting, and I definitely haven’t given up on it. But it is incredibly awkward and depressing. Like, I don’t even know how to describe how I feel about it, because I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. It’s so depressing and awkward at some parts that when something funny actually comes up I feel guilty laughing about it. Oh, and Jim is a jerk. I still love him and consider myself most like him in the show, but he keeps being mean to Pam. It’s funny… but mean. Haha.

And that concludes our evening. I also promise that I will bring you the next part of The Best of My Bookmarks sometime before the end of the month. And I have some other ideas/projects that I will be working on, so I’ll let you know what’s up with them when the time comes.

Check it out:

http://www.noob.us/entertainment/conan-obrien-cadbury-eggs-getting-smaller/

Pineapples… Pineapples are pretty.

Ananas comosus, if you prefer the Latin.

See, Pineapples are prickly, but they don’t sting a bit.

And apparently, according to Wikipedia, pineapples used to be pine cones and pine cones didn’t become become pine cones until pineapples were discovered. Europeans are silly like that.

So, picture this:

is a pineapple, and

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So here I am at work blogging from my phone….
Word, son.
Today started as not such a good day, progressed to worse of a day, jumped up to a fantastic day, and now is back to a good day. That is acceptable. I’m smiling, so that’s cool, and work hasn’t been bad so far, apart from the one customer who I had to help for about half an hour who was nice, but most definitely annoying.

So yeah, only approximately three weeks of school left, so that is pretty fantastic. And then Summertime and the livin’s easy.
Next week I am only working twelve hours, which is pretty darn excellent. I plan to spend time being inspired and writing and such, and maybe I can finally start updating regularly again and go back up to an average of fourty or so people a day from the current twenty (which I love you, my loyal fans! you rock!).

I think that’s it for right now, maybe I’ll be back with more later or something like. So peace out, rock on, and smile!

I would probably eat you. And not because I’m hungry. It’s just because I like cupcakes. Really.

So for those of you who were wondering, my life is still fairly alive, and most definitely living, and such.

I’m still hooked on oxygen, food, and reproduction. Which are like the three key things to life, and such.

(note: I know that those aren’t really the three key things to life, I just wanted to disappoint my tenth grade Bio teacher.)

On that note: Dodgeball

I used to play a lot of dodgeball, back in my church days. I’d play like once a week, unfortunately I don’t any more, and I miss it. It was the only sport I was ever really good at, not just average, and I really had an awesome time playing.

I’ve been Googling it to see if I can find any local chapters and groups, but so far no real luck. Although I did sign up to start getting information on try outs for a pro dodgeball team, that would be a pretty awesome experience.

But anyway, I guess what I really want to say is if anyone in the Long Island/New York City area is in a dodgeball league, or interested in starting one (or if not even league, than casual group and such) then get in contact with me and let me know what’s up.

cool.

Fun fact: I am still alive!
Life right now seems to be going pretty smoothly. School is fairly tolerable, and is over in about a month. The relationship I’m in is going very well. The only thing that is really not fun, which I’m not even sure why, is work. I find that whenever I walk through those doors a cloud of unhappiness just falls over me. My supervisor is pretty awesome though. And starting in a couple weeks I’m going to be working a drastically less amount, which is excellent.

But yeah, I’ve been keeping myself busy. Generally any time I’m awake I’m doing something (like, right now, I’m at school in economics, listening to my professor saying something about the implications to GDP). So I haven’t really had much time to be surfing the internet to find interesting links and stories for all 20 or so of my loyal readers. (Or else that one person who visits every day from 20 unique IP addresses, I love you!) But I apologize for that, and I really do plan to start writing more often and spilling my heart, soul, and bookmarks folder.

I’ve also still be EPing a lot, it’s fairly addicting, and I really love the whole idea of it. It’s like, social networking with meaning. Good stuff.

Anyway, I’ll try to do some interesting things in my life to let you know about.

generally being very neglecting again.

I haven’t done a real update in a while… sorry.

I am pretty excited about today though! =)

I get upset when I don’t know what to say. When the words that I have don’t make everything better and just aren’t enough.

I should be able to. I’m a writer, God damnit, I should always know the right thing to say.

But I don’t.

… =(