After an extremely busy month of March, a number of incredible things have happened. In addition to my professional life taking some positive steps forward, my personal life has been absolutely insane as well. I’m not sure if the celebrities who are always showing up the news for getting arrested and running around naked are so ridiculous anymore. I imagine that those with a high amount of money in comparison to that of the general population can easily develop a false sense of invulnerability and even security.

Neil Strauss, a writer primarily known to me as being one of the most well known pickup artists in the world and author of The Game, released a new book recently entitled Emergency. Eventually I may write an actual blog entry regarding this book, but for now I will just say that I read the entire thing over the course of a couple days, and it’s a real page turner. To briefly describe the book, I would say it’s a ridiculously awesome wake up call to those who have gotten entirely too comfortable in the midst of high tech Westernized and American living, or even just living within modern industrialized civilization in general. People these days seem to be way too comfortable and entirely too unprepared.

Some of the ideas expressed in the book have given me new thoughts and inspiration about everyone’s purpose in life. My belief structure has gone from being obliviously and blindly simple and contradictory from the time I was young and religious to being overly complex, to now being intellectually simple but still fully logical and rational. To hint at one of the things that I will be writing about later in my next book, the reason we are here essentially exists in three parts. Two of the three parts are selfish, while the third extends to bettering humanity. You must survive, replicate, and empower. I think the explanation for these terms might be somewhat self explanatory, but I will elaborate more later on the many different pages I am currently writing.

Progress on many of the projects I started in 2007 have come to a slowdown. Dirty Mechanism Apparel is supposed to come out with 50 new designs this month in April but the month is already half over and I find myself completely preoccupied with finishing out this semester at school as strongly as I can. I don’t know why, but this past month I’ve been giving an increased amount of thought to my academic future and how it relates to my current activities professionally. This summer I will likely be starting an internship working as a case worker for something for a charity organization. I’m still planning on pursuing a doctorate down the line, but my state of disgust with various different aspects of life in general seem to be getting the way.

As I continue to progress I find myself becoming further and further disconnected from those I knew in high school, with the only exception probably being the whole organization of Barton Ct. Productions, which seems to have only become closer to me. Depending on how well the comedy series we’re working on goes and if we can complete it on time, Barton Ct. may still be at a stand still where I continue to move all the same.

I no longer talk with my old friend Chris Worrell because of some drama that had gone down with my girlfriend – he has expressed that he does not think I am a good person, or at least, a person he wants to spend time with. Looking at my life from an outside first glance some people would perceive me to be moving backward in my development. From where I’m standing, things might be looking extremely bright. If all else fails, at least I still have the experience and the memories to look back on – some of what I’ve been doing this year has been the time of my life.

I kind of can’t believe it – 2009 might just be the best year of my life so far.