I took a hiatus from this blog. I was busy wallowing in my sorrows. Then, I decided to run a marathon, so I was busy putting one foot in front of another for 26.2 miles. Then, I got a boyfriend. And well, romance in the real world is much more interesting than putting fingers to the keyboard and typing. Also, I was promoted to manager of a coffee shop. A coffee shop that was under going a great deal of transformation. The last thing you want to do after working a 14-hour day is open your laptop and struggle to be witty and smart and make intelligent sentences strung together to paint a picture about anything.

Also, my motivation was lost. It tripped and rolled down a mountain, and then fell off of a cliff, where it stayed crippled for a couple of years.

2013 has been a good year for change and motivation. I realized I don’t want to be in the food industry at all, much less managing it. This led to the beginning of my grad school search and application process.

This is still ongoing. So far, I’ve applied to one. Three more to go…Bah.

That’s where I am currently. Coffee shop manager, girlfriend to a boy, and runner. Also, a sporadic blogger. And sometimes, I watch things and want to write about them. Specifically TV.

Currently, I’m binge watching season 2 of “Girls”. As in, I’m doing that right now as I type these very words.

This show makes me feel pithy and witty. Maybe it shouldn’t. But also, maybe it should.

Back to the resolutions…blogging is one of them. Doing it on a consistent basis, mainly.

What will I be blogging about, besides the incessant amount of television I watch? New Year’s resolution #2: reading books outside of my comfort zone. My comfort zone has narrowed to coffee shop mysteries and other easy-to-read chick-lit novels.

And that fact makes me want to vomit on myself.

My goal, or resolution rather, is to read one book a month. And the only requirement of this book is that it must be “a book I have to read in my life.” Like Catcher In the Rye or Brave New World. I’m asking my literarily-inclined friends to pitch in ideas.

First up, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I somehow managed to miss being required to read this in my various Language Arts classes over the years and my boyfriend thinks it’s a must. So I’m doing it.

And then I’m going to blog about it.

And you’re going to read it. Maybe.

Aside from blogging and reading, I’m going to be running. I want to run another marathon this year, and with the help of a good friend, I hope to be doing that in 3 to 4 months time.

So here’ to running, reading, writing, and getting into grad school!