A New Beginning

This blog has sat around for most of my college career with little updates. That's because I was too busy reading, writing pages upon pages of literary criticism, writing my column for the school paper, writing creative stuff, reading stuff not assigned to me by professors, working full time at a grocery store and then (currently) a bookstore, drinking, dating numerous questionable men, self-publishing some books, and seeing midnight shows of new movies and eating out too often with my friends. Also, there was and still is the ever handy, beautiful and timeless Facebook, the brilliant tool that has kept me in contact with everyone I give a shit about.

Today this blog dry spell is remedied. With my Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from Grand Valley State University tucked under my shoulder, my Twitter updates (essential) to your right beneath a link to a Bloggerized version of my resume (more essential), and a newfound resolution to WRITE while I wade through the dark waters of post grad life and search for a grad school and/or real job, I have decided on Blogger--despite some reservations at first--to host my "official" website. This is mainly because it's free and I'm used to it. Also, I haven't done much, in my own eyes, to make The Official Greg M. Schumaker website. I'd rather pay someone to do that when I'm rich and famous. It's less narcissistic-seeming that way.

I'm also trying to cook more. That doesn't mean that I'll ever pull a "Julie & Julia" and try to master the art of French cooking. Not until I'm 28 and desperate for a real life, anyway. You should know, however, that I made chicken parmesan last night and Shavon's not dead from food poisoning yet. Neither am I. And I even ate the leftovers for lunch at work today. I'm becoming frugal. As if the free website wasn't evidence enough of that.

That's all. Watch out for less rambling posts and some stuff I've spent longer than ten minutes on. I'll go for fifteen to twenty minutes tops. Give you some real quality writing to sink your sweet tooth into.