Welcome to Operation: Do A Thing

A preface

I’m a twenty-five-year-old guy who lives in the USA and looks kind of like this:

I graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor in Humanities and moved back in with my parent. Then I freaked out, threw all my possessions in a car, and drove aimlessly around the country for a while. I ended up here in the great state of Minnesota. It looks like this outside my window right now:

I work two jobs, primarily with elementary school kids. I live in a house with five other people, all of them wonderful friends. For my last birthday we went to a Mexican restaurant where I wore a comically large sombrero and drank margaritas out of a fishbowl.

Despite all of this, I am almost perpetually miserable.

I think it has something to do with my paralyzing fear of the future. I’m not on a set career path, and have no real inclination to start one. The only things I really enjoy doing are drawing monsters and yelling at the television, and no one has offered to pay me for either of those yet.

Basically I spend a lot of time procrastinating. So, as a means of change, I’ve decided to activate Operation: Do A Thing.

I even drew a crest:

This sort-of-planned, conveniently vague endeavor will begin today. It will consist of me thinking up random things for each day, and then me doing those things, and then me writing about doing those things. Eloquent eh?

Best-case scenario: I meet interesting people, discover new hobbies, and learn to more actively engage the world. Worst-case scenario: I give up on this in a week and get stabbed by a ghost.

Today’s thing to do was starting a blog. Tomorrow’s thing to do will be thinking up a full week of things to do.

Tally-Ho!