I’m not a writer by profession, nor do I claim to be one, although many people have told me that I’m a good writer. Of course, I always disagreed, not really liking what I had written, mainly because I would usually have to take quite a bit of time to get something out. Today, however, as I was walking down the path from the galley to my room (or was it the other way around?), I came to a realization. I’m not a novelist, but more of an essayist. Stories aren’t my forte; I often have no clue where to start. But if I’m presented with a topic that I can formulate an opinion on, I can get started fairly easily. Once I get started with any piece though, I can usually go on for a long time. Getting started is the hard part. Getting started is more than likely the reason why I only scored a 2 on the English Language AP test I took in May of 1999. =P I hardly remember anything from that test, only that afterwards, I went with my friends Kelly, Daniel, Khoa, and Lena to a Vietnamese restaurant with all of its menu items priced at $1.99. I ordered the steak with white rice, and a glass of Sprite. The other four all ordered beef noodle soup and coconut juice, all taking their cue from uhh… I think it was Lena. It could’ve been Kelly. I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter anyway.
And the last two sentences had no relevance whatsoever.
I notice that I do that a lot, mention things that have little relation to a given topic. But then, this isn’t something I’m writing for school. It’s something I’m writing just for the sake of writing (er… typing). It’s something I'm writing to fill up space on my web page and look good. Speaking of looking good, I think this page would look a lot better if the text was justified, but alas, there’s no way to do that with HTML 4.0 and CSS 1.0. At least no way that I'm aware of. Overall though, I’d say this looks pretty good. So far just barely over one screen full on my brand new 15" ViewSonic ViewPanel 150, one of those flat panel LCD monitors that costs $1000 and runs at a moderately high resolution of 1024×768.