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Hello again, y'all! Guess I have enough motivation to keep up with this blog thing after all! Well, that and I am currently sitting at my place of employment twiddling my thumbs because the poor weather conditions have deterred most of our would-be patrons from scheduling for today. This isn't exactly suprising, after all, most institutions in town have closed for the day. Keyword being most. For reasons I can't begin to fathom, the only, and I mean only university in town that remains open happens to be the one I attend and find myself employed by. As I implied earlier, this morning the roads were not really in a state to support this. Most of the side-roads (including the street I live on) and roads outside of town were still in a rough condition. Understandably, the reaction from the student body was... negative. Hillariously, even the university newspaper featured an opinion article bashing the decision.
It isn't all bad, the relatively quiet campus is nice and missing today's shift would have been rough on my coffers. Not to mention, I have the time to sit down and procrastinate write for this here blog!
Moving on from whinging about personal inconveniences, I have also been recently attempting to scale the increasingly mountainous pile that is my backlog. As any astute reader could guess from both the title of this very website, as well as my general disposition (that being an ADHD-riddled mess) this will be no easy task. It is, however, a task that I am determined to complete.
Perhaps writing about my attempts will help me better organize my efforts. Maybe I'll make it an ongoing segment of these blog posts... Regardless, there have been a few new entries to my backlog courtesy of my professors:
Oh the joys of studying English and Anthropology simultaneously. Lots and lots of reading, which can be a little overwhelming if you're a slow reader such as myself. Luckily, I am somewhat spared from the onslaught by the fact that many of these are for children (I am taking a class about writing for children and young adults) and as a result will be a breeze to read, and I have read a few of these before, particularly Maus, Nimona, Barefoot Gen, and Howl's Moving Castle so those will be more review than anything else. I am also excited to finally patch some holes in my cultural knowledge, as despite being a member of Generation Z, I have somehow managed to avoid reading The Hunger Games. This will sadly put some of my currently in-progress readings on hold (sorry Miss Peregrine and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell among many others), but needs must when attempting to preserve one's adequate GPA. It will also likely put my gaming backlog on hold, alas. Thankfully Sandfall Interactive was so kind as to include a built-in "what was I doing again?" button so I shan't be too lost when I finally have enough time to return to Expedition 33.
On top of trying to wrangle my backlog, I have also been slowly chipping away at different parts of this site, I expect by the end of the week or early next I should have a semi-functional "favorites" page which will be pretty much what it says on the tin, a place for me to document my favorite books, shows, movies, games, etc. I will also hopefully have some of my writing ready for the writing page.
That's all for today, catch you again soon!
Hello? Is this thing on? Oh good, it looks like things are functioning and I haven't yet completely broken things with my extremely limited knowledge of HTML and my complete lack of anything resembling competence with CSS.
Anyway, I suppose I ought to start with some sort of introduction. Hello! My name is Jacob and as this rather uncreatively titled page suggests, this is my blog! This, alongside the website in general, is a bit of a personal project of mine. The state of social media and the internet at-large has been downright dreadful. Things like the sea of AI slop proliferating in recent years and algorithims that discourage thoughtful discussion and encourage rage-bait have ruined the experience. I am hoping that this website can be my little way of rebelling against the current state of online spaces. A small slice of the internet that I can call my own and use to document my life free from the corporate web.
As I've already stated, my name is Jacob. I am an anthropology student in my seventh year of undergrad, a feat possible due to academic shenanigans and chronic lack of decisiveness (you know how it is). Apart from anthropology, I am also studying English. Speaking of which, one of the goals of this website is to have a single place to document all of my writing so expect some of that down the line as well. I will also likely rant about my interests, as one does on a blog, so if you're interested in literature, horror, gardening, cooking, science fiction, fantasy, folklore, and much more™ you're in luck!
So yeah, that's about it for this first post. If I don't manage to spectacularly break anything with my terrible programming, I will see y'all in the next post!