Malaise

So I'm feeling kind of down today. I don't know why. I think it's mainly just boredom. I get this way sometimes, where nothing I do seems interesting to me. Generally, it doesn't happen with all of my interests at the same time, but every couple months it all comes together in a kind of a perfect storm. It always happens on a day that I have off of work and that I have to spend alone. I don't have too many days like that, but when I do have them, they suck.

Today, for instance, I didn't get any new movies from Netflix, so I can't watch that. I'm not interested in watching any of the movies that I have at home either (although I could just break down at watch something, because I usually get into what ever I happen to put in). I'm too far along on Super Mario Galaxy to get any stars easily, and I'm not interested enough today to work at it. I'm also not that into Kingdom of Loathing today.

The saddest part is that several of the things that might have interested me have instead simply frustrated me. I tried to watch a movie instantly on Netflix, but my computer kept crashing. I also tried to play some Morrowind, but had the same problem. Sometimes my computer gets in these moods where anything too graphically intense causes problems. I found out that if we update my wife's computer to Jaguar or Leopard or whatever, then we could run Windows on it and I could probably do both of those things without so many crashes.

I'm suprised that I'm writing this much here today, but I guess that I wasn't thinking about it, I just started blogging, so I hadn't developed an expectation of boredom about it before hand. I wonder if this will even be interesting to anyone else. They say that if you're bored, you're boring. I don't know if that is true or not.

I suppose I should say something about NaNoWriMo. I did attempt to write a novel in November, but it didn't get very far. The only day that I worked on it was November 1st, and I wrote only about 1800 words, making this my least successful NaNoWriMo attempt ever. The novel was about a zombie outbreak in a small town, but had only gotten as far as introducing the main characters, including one who was in jail for killing his family, who he believed had become zombies. I hadn't even gotten threw the young man's entire story of what he did when killing his family, or what convinced him that they were in fact the undead and needed to be killed.

I would say that there is always next year, and indeed I do intend to participate in NaNoWriMo again next November. However, I think that it would do me some good to start writing some fiction before then. Therefore, I do hereby declare that I will begin writing some short stories about what ever topic catches my fancy, and with a frequency that will be determined at a later day, and when complete, some of those stories may be posted right here, on my blog, for all the world to see! How's that for a pledge?