The Bohemian Essayist

Updates of the Bohemian Essayist

I would say, "I'm going to start blogging more, I promise!" But that seems to jinx it. So I'm going to say this: Aren't I so awesome for being so on top of blogging?! I know! I AM wonderful, aren't I?!

I got a job at a company called StoresOnline. They help people build their own online business. With the software, there are lots of help files that need to be kept up to date as well as a newsletter that is sent out to our customers, or merchants, monthly. I help with these things. It's a lot of technical writing and that's making me reconsider what exactly I want to go into. It's full time and the pay is great so I'm becoming financially independent!

I'm not going to school right now but I will probably be returning to UVU in the summer of 2011 to pursue a degree in Technical Writing. With my job, it might be difficult, but I think that after I save up some money, it will be less stressful to go to school because I won't be worrying about money.

I'm working towards a car of my own so I don't have to mooch off my parents plethora of automobiles and I recently offered to take over a lease on an apartment. So I will, hopefully, be moving out December 27th into an apartment in Provo. Don't worry! I'll give you all my address so you can continue to send me your impending-doom cards. Or wedding invitations. Whatever.

With all the stuff that I am doing, I'm noticing a lot of what I'm not doing. I really want to write to some of my friends who are on missions, make new friends instead of bumming around with my old ones, vote, write, volunteer, organize, work out, etc. and still be able to get to sleep on time at night. I don't want to get into a pattern of never being happy with where I am, though. Because I don't want to keep striving for something without realizing what I have. I'm looking forward to moving and, with a little bit of force, hopefully I can settle into a little bit of a routine that works for me without always striving for the "next step".

Just a reminder that you can follow me pretty much anywhere online! A few of my usernames are:

Twitter: Wanderingwolf
DailyBooth: Wandering_wolf
Formspring: wolfie17

And of course I'm on Facebook! Ask me questions on Formspring! I'll tell 'no' lies. Or something.

Thank you to everyone who is so supportive of everything I do! Especially my mom. She's my best friend and my mentor and I couldn't do anything I do today without her, and not just for the obvious reasons. See you next post! Comment! Rate! Subscribe! Follow! I love you all!

Hugs and kisses,
Brittany

CJO

A Late Night Ramble

2:32 AM

We will call this person CJO. This person has succeeded in ruining their family's life all in pursuit of glamour, big hoo-has, and a horrible spray tan. They have ruined their children's lives and their oldest child has had to grow up extremely fast. I have no respect for CJO. I have no respect for the people who seemingly led CJO down this extremely stupid and childish path. All because they wanted their family to be more "open-minded" to ideas different from the way they had been raised. Stupid and manipulative and nosy about things that really don't concern them. If you wanted to be part of the family, you obviously should've made more of an effort. Stop thinking you can waltz in, recommend that someone give up ethics, religion, morals, etc. and live the fancy life because you're more "free" that way. You aren't part of the family. You never will be. Stop trying to weasel your way into our lives to give us unwanted and unneeded advice and/or alternatives to our primitive, close-minded ideas.

To anyone who doesn't get this, you're not supposed to. Just take it with a grain of salt. I needed to vent. That is all.

Magnetic, Ecstatic Poetry

I recently bought the Writer's Remedy magnetic poetry set and this is what I spelled out from it at 1:48 in the morning when I hadn't taken my Trazidone. Yes, mom. I know that was stupid. Bear with me. I've never done something like this before. All the words are taken directly from words that came with my poetry kit. If I had a sentence in my mind but not the right word, I didn't put it in. (And I took that picture up there with my phone. Crazy, right?!)

I obsess about worrying.

A spark of muse to light my bosom.

Devils whisper to me

Bringing anxiety.

I bleed the emotion of a poet

And the grace, soul, words of a noveler.

That's all I have for now. It's really hard to use a limited amount of words to write sentences! Great practice for me. Ciao for now!

Ode to a Bubble Bath

- By Brittany Olson

Isn't it interesting how little experiences can take you away to another dimension

Where fantasy becomes the here and now and real life is a distant memory?

My head dipped into the warm water

And my ears filled with the sound of wet nothingness

Making me shudder and laugh out loud in my head.

Suddenly I was in a desert of water

A huge ocean.

My fish fingers crept into my fanning seaweed hair

Flitting in and out and in and out and one more time in and out.

My legs were no longer separated

Glued together with scales.

I knock against the ship.

It creaks in mild indignation.

My feet rub against a whale's back.

It echoes ticklish squeaks.

We swim together.

My ears empty and sound returns

As I lift my head.

I'm surprised to be in my bathroom.

Since when am I not a mermaid?

Romantic Era, Employee, and Castle

So the whole blogging more often thing is going precisely as planned but I'm trying! Did you love that I posted my New York trip like seven months after it happened? Yeah I thought that was pretty cool, too. (Not.) At least I posted it!

My classes are going great! I love my English book! It's all about the Romantic Period of literature and it's so interesting to learn

about how the world issues affected the famous writers of the age and their writing! I have realized, however, that I really need to learn more about the French Revolution because I know almost nothing about it. Have any info? That'd be super! Math is pretty darn easy but that's because I technically took that class last semester. And failed. Cause I didn't go to class. Don't judge me. I'm doing better now!

My mom's birthday is coming up! I have no idea what to get her. She says that I should just put the money I have into savings but I was a really big brat to her last year on her birthday and I feel like I need to make up for it... But maybe I'll just get a candy bar and do something nice for her. Ideas?

And now for a segment I'd like to return to called, Random Word of the Day! (Here's a link to the generator I use to generate a random word.)

Today's random word is: Employee. (Just in case you're confused, I generate a random word and then respond to it.)

Ugh, I need a job. Badly. If anyone who is reading this lives in Utah Valley and needs a babysitter, call me! I've applied tons of places and only one person has called me back and I didn't get the job cause he said he'd call back and it's been like two weeks... Oh well...

I feel like reviewing something! If you have any ideas for a band, a song, a movie, a TV show, a YouTube show, or a video game that you'd like me to review, let me know. This is a very interactive blog! Help me to help you to help me help you...help...me you...etc...

Anyways. I'm going to review the show Castle today.

If you've never seen the show, here's a brief synopsis. It's about a bestselling, suave, and debonaire author named Richard Castle who writes mystery crime novels. In the very first episode, Castle has just killed off his bestselling character and has hit the dreaded writers block. He has no idea what to write about next. At the same time, a homicide detective named Kate Beckett has discovered a serial killer who is killing people the same way Castle kills people in his book. Castle is called into the precinct to talk to the detectives about the murders in case he knows anything or anyone. Castle is intrigued by the inner workings of a real investigation so he tags along and constantly irritates Detective Beckett. At the end of the episode, Castle has helped solve the murder mystery, joined Beckett's investigations until further notice, and thought up a new female protagonist for his stories.

This show combines two things I love: writing and a good mystery. The characters are all very charismatic. Richard Castle, played by Nathan Fillion, is a charmer. Fillion plays the role of a womanizer and a brilliant investigator very well. Stana Katic, who plays Detective Beckett, is a workaholic with something to prove and stick up her...well, you know. She's quite the sour puss and never does anything for herself (the exact opposite of Castle) but is very good at her job. And of course, there's the ever-so-tangible romantic tension between the two partners. Opposites attract, right? Even the side characters are charming! Castle lives with his schoolaholic daughter, played by Molly C. Quinn, and wise but cougar-like mother, played by Susan Sullivan and both of them are delightful.

The cases themselves are very intriguing. None of them are ever very boring or predictable, much like a good murder mystery novel. I've read many reviews that say that Castle is a writer's show, and that's definitely true! If you love writing, you'll love this show! If you love a good murder mystery, you'll love this show! If you're sick of predictable crime shows, you'll love this show. Check it out on sidereel.com! It's where I watch all my shows that I keep up with.

So there you have it! A nice long blog post to read through. You're welcome.

Love,

Brit

Prayers to Rex and Haiti

Okay, let's start this whole blogging more thing on a positive note.

So I've been doing some school lately! Even though I'm not actually living at USU currently. I'm doing independent study classes. Two of them, in fact. Math 1010 and British Literary History: Romantic Period. And take a gander at this book I have to study from!

But the best part is that I am so excited to get into school! I love school! I'm a nerd and it's okay!

Okay, I think I'll include a Random Thought of the Day! in these blogs. What do you think? Yes? No?

{whispers}Who is this chick and why am I reading her blog?{/whispers}

Okay, today's random thought is brought to you by the weather, Rain. California has been getting poured on the past couple days. And what I wanna know is, why does California suddenly get to have bad weather? I mean Utah is notorious for having unpredictable weather! And now California comes and steals it from us?! Are we going to take this?!?!

Well I suppose we have to. Well played, Mother Nature.

But seriously, Utah is completely smogged over right now and the weather man/woman keeps saying, "A big storm is coming! It'll wipe out this smog and then we can all breathe again!" But has that happened? NoOoOoOoOo. California, quit hogging the rain!

On a more serious note, please send your prayers to the Rex family. Their son Michael, who is my age and I used to play with him when I was little, drowned today. He's still alive, miraculously and he's in a medically induced coma. They're going to pull him out of it tomorrow hopefully but they're not sure he'll ever wake up or if he'll have brain damage or not.

Thanks for sending your prayers their way. And of course, send your prayers to Haiti as well.

Love ya!

Brittany

Quickie!

I am literally shouting in my head right now, "Just blog already! It doesn't matter if you have nothing to say! Just DO IT!"

But my devoted fans (*snort*), the reason I haven't been blogging is because I feel as though I have nothing to say. And no one would find it interesting even if I did have something to say.

But I have decided that I don't care. I am going to blog because I want to!

Starting...tomorrow.

Don't give me that look. It's 11:16 here. I should've been asleep and in bed two hours ago. Never mind that I was watching Robert Downey Jr. be frickin hilarious on the Golden Globes two hours ago.

But I promise I'll post something witty and interesting tomorrow! And I like how my cousin did it. With a cute sticky note. Like so.

I think I'll do this more often. It's cute.

By the way, I don't think I've given up my name on this blog yet and I'm MUCH less paranoid than I was when I started this so lemme introduce myself.

Hi, my name is Brittany. I love to write and I have been diagnosed with ADHD. That's all you really need to know for now.

Until tomorrow,

Brittany