The Year Ahead...

Ok, so, starting off with my first serious post, I think I'll be talking about this upcoming year.

The next 9 months are going to be a test, for me. I have to maintain all my current friendships, and make new ones, while only seeing them during band, during both marching and concert seasons. The rest of my time, I'll be spending at the college, in Leesburg. There is where the challenge of new friends comes in. I'll need someone to talk to while I'm up there, and while my friendship with Stephen(@dietstephen1552 on Twitter) is enough to get me through economics, I hope, there's still a wide gap of me being alone at the college for hours on end.

But a question that nags at me is, do I want to be spending my off-time up there talking to people every day, or by enjoying my solace, which may be hard to come by in the next few months. It would make sense to mix both, but that's not how people work.

It's probable that the more friends I make on-campus, the more time I'll be spending up there trying to solidify friendships, or maintain them. So, it may seem selfish, but I'm thinking I'll probably be keeping to myself most of my time at college. That means I have to somehow make time to spend with my friends at high school, despite my schedule being crowded with work(which may require its own post, as it's caused a lot of trouble lately). At least with my current friends, I know around how much time I'll be spending with each of them.

But friendships aren't the only things one should focus on in a year, and I'm sure I got off track, even within the subject. I also need to focus on band, itself. We had our first officer meeting today, which, apparently, included every section leader and pseudo-section leader in the band. So, I obviously don't take it as seriously as I will some of the later, more private ones. It's looking like the year might take some good turns, with this year's set of officers. Even I've been a bit of a "commandy-pants", which is a good thing. Band is more than just a group of people trying to play music, though(we also march).

Band is also a group of friends, almost like a whole separate family, for some. We don't always like each other, but we get along because we have to. We're family. So, I've got to have time for that, in the upcoming year. I've already successfully bought a soda for someone feeling down, so I'm doing my job right, I think.

I wonder what else I need to mention.

I apologize for the delay in posting. I've been adapting to the schedule. I should have some time to do these more often, as I get better at adapting. The same goes for my tweeting schedule. I'll get more tweety as time goes on, I promise.

I hope this isn't a disappointing length. The more of these I do, the better I'll be at gauging the length of a post to how small this little scroll bar gets. For now, posts will be of some very strange and varying lengths.

Not to mention how much digression goes on in these things, its a wonder I'm as good at essay writing as I am. That said, this is the end of this particular post. I hope it was decent by reader standards, as it doesn't quite fit what I'm going for, yet, but as I've already repeated way too many times, it'll improve.

Good bye, and enjoy the rest of your days/nights.

Start

I'm starting this blog as a method of venting, and also, out of curiosity. It's the first blog I've ever run, and I'm not sure how I'll handle, or even manage it. We'll just have to see.

This post is going to be really short(hopefully in comparison with later posts), and is just something to introduce what this blog will be about.

I'm a brony, and a student, working on getting his AA degree within the next two or three terms. So, you can expect a lot of pony- or education-related things on this blog. On top of that, you can expect my opinions on various things, such as movies, current events(unlikely, as I try to remain opinionless on things like that), or games, as I play a lot of games, almost daily.

If you want to know more about me, you can refer to the About the Author section(soon to be ready for viewing), or you can view my Twitter page(https://twitter.com/lastsight123), which I've made pretty good use of, for only being up for a year and a month. Hope to see a few readers pop up. If you read this, then I hope you might keep it up.

-Payne.

P.S. While I probably won't get a more proper first post up, you can count on lengthier posts whenever I have something that I really want to talk about. I hope not to disappoint.