The Blogger With A Thousand Excuses (for not blogging more)

I'm going to try posting more often now. I'm not guaranteeing anything at the moment, but I feel like if I start incorporating blogging into my daily routine, I might be able to pull off a post every other day or so. Not even thinking about quality at this point; they'll just be my thoughts.

Here's my prediction for the presidential election next November: Mitt Romney loses against incumbent Barrack Obama. Why do I think Romney will win the Republican nomination? He looks the most like a politician, his views are neither too conservative nor too non-conservative, and he has a lot of money. By the way, I'm not a Democrat or a Republican or a banana; I'm actually apolitical, if I'm honest.

I don't know what to write about.

I'm half-way through Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I can't make too many judgements right now, although I might criticize the plot for, like, you know, finally developing halfway through.

I'm also reading Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces, which I find extremely interesting, although a bit too scholarly for my taste. It's about what James Joyce calls the "monomyth" (don't actually remember if it was Joyce; don't quote me). Monomyth is the theory that many, many, MANY human myths/stories from all over the world follow the same pattern; Campbell calls this pattern the Hero Cycle. A modern day example of this is Harry Potter.This means that human psychology is basically the same anywhere you go. Of course, there are innumerable differences and details that can alter one's mind; but, in essence, we're all pretty much thinking on the same wavelength.

Okay.