Resuming the Story

I am planning to continue the narrative aspect of my writings here.  The story will pickup where I left off in September, at the point of graduation from High School.  I started that initial narrative phase when I was traveling, because I didn't have the time for the type of writing I usually do on here.  This time it is the reverse, and I am resuming that aspect because I have the time available to do my college story justice.  The first half of that story is already written, courtesy of two intercontinental flights, and a long laptop battery life.  Two ten hour stints trapped in a metal tube resulted in over twenty pages of text to sort through.  But I wrote it as a continuous stream of consciousness, so there is still some work to do cleaning that up and breaking it into separate free standing posts.

As the story moves closer to present day, I deliberately intend to be more ambiguous about certain details, and will even occasionally tell sections out of chronological order to obscure the identities of certain other involved parties.  They aren't the point of the story or its individual parts, but they play important roles in the plot, so they can't be totally ignored.  On the flip side, the story will also get more in-depth as I get closer to present day, as the events I describe will be having a more significant effect on my current situation and perspective.

The summer after I graduated high school was uneventful.  At my parent’s insistence, I unsuccessfully tried to get jobs at UPS and Radio Shack, and attempted to land a video deal with a manufacturing company.  Instead I ended up sealing driveways to make some money, and did little else of lasting significance, which motivated me to find something better the next summer.  The story really picks back up when I packed up to move down south to start college in Thousands Oaks, at Cal-Lutheran University.