It's Winter time

It's foggy and cold outside. The fog drapes itself around me and leaves me feeling cold but safe. I love winter. It is such a dreary time, with its darkness and frigid air, but it's my favorite time of year. I think it is because you can feel down and swept away in that funk where you know everything and don't know anything. Where you feel the emotions of the day, but they leave you feeling the same. Where life seems to stand still while you find that perfect quote or poem or song for that certain moment. You can feel all of this, and it doesn't matter because it's winter, and you are allowed to feel this way when it's winter time.

In this winter funk (that is what I will call what i just described), I thought of something that I think you should think about (if that makes sense). Where would you be if you could be anywhere, with anyone, at any time doing anything? the possibilities are endless, but I don't ever think like that, and I doubt you do either. Try it, and then let that feeling of happiness and comfort wash over you. then, I think you will be able to experience how winter makes me feel.

Goodnight and Goodluck Internet. Sleep well.

-Charley

Some things about me

So, here are some things that define me:

1. I am a huge soccer fan. My favorite teams are and always will be FC Dallas, and the US Men's National Team. I also like the English Premier League, but don't really have a team that I root for. I also will occasionally write about soccer related things, and hopefully present a different approach to writing about the beautiful game.

2. I am a runner. I run a lot. I may write about this sometimes.

3. I really love indie music. It is so different from the mainstream, but also seems so much more real and from the heart than other music. I am very passionate about music, and may write about that as well.

4. I go to school at Texas A&M University, and am so very proud that I can say that. This school is my home, and I couldn't go anywhere else for my education. I could write about this at some point too.

5. Lastly, at least for now, I have a mantra, or a quote to live by. It was said by Sir Cecil Beaton, and goes like this:

"be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. "

and who knows, I may write about this too.

I hope you are having a good day. I guess I will go back to studying for finals.

gngl (that's goodnight and good luck) :-)

First Edition

Becoming a legend is a difficult task for any young blogger, especially a rookie such as the one typing these words to you. Legends have years of experience, and actually have something to say. Legends strive for some goal far off in the distance, struggling to be heard amongst the tumultuous and the faceless. Legends have thousands of followers, and believe their words make the difference in the fight against whatever it is they are fighting against. Eventually legends are successful, becoming iconic to a few and a hindrance to the well established. I don't want to be legend. I'm not really fighting for anything, beyond the occasional good grade (the very occasional) and even then it isn't really a fight, but more like a scuffle, or at worst a slap fight in which the loser just goes home crying out of embarrassment for getting into a slap fight.

I have never had a blog before, and don't really know what to put in one, but I read a lot of them, and do have opinions, so I guess this is the place for me.

I hope I don't disappoint.

goodnight and good luck