Sometimes the Internet Amazes Me

So here I am, trying to get to bed early, and so I put on some music on my ipod. I just brought a bunch of CDs back from Maryland, so it is some old time music. I start listening to the Book of Mormon soundtrack - seems like it should be soothing enough to fall asleep to. And as I am listening to it, I am reminded of the person who introduced me to it - Elder Constantine. Another thing I brought back with me was the beginning of a book about him, not to finish - I think I've passed the 5th grade mode where I was writing it, but just to have to remember. And so I am thinking about him, and wondering what he is up to. And of course, I want to know, and know now! So I abandon sleep and get on the internet. Nothing comes up on facebook - he apparently isn't there. But a simple google search leads me to a random pirate blog he keeps, and as I dig through it I find videos, and there I am seeing a person that I have not seen in over 10+ years.

Which reminds me...while I was in Maryland, I became astounded by the fact that I ever thought I wasn't going to be a writer. Littered throughout my room are notebooks full of pieces of stories, and especially pieces of the story that I'll be writing the book I will hopefully start working on soon. I can't go without writing, and now that I realize this, I wonder that I ever thought I could.

I try to fall asleep and as soon as my sleep timer on my ipod goes off and the music/book stops, my mind starts circling with ideas, thoughts, contemplations, all about these stories, about how to write something, about new places to discover -- today I was thinking about trees that grew naturally to be houses. Well, I don't really feel like working out the description of how to get the real idea across, but that's the basic idea. Like I will go through the day, and think - I am not really working much on writing, because I haven't put the pen to the page. But then I look in the recesses in my mind, and progress has been made in stories, new ideas are being explored. It will all come in time.