Opening Post

When I lived in Williamsburg, and was goofing around and getting an associates degree while working semi-full-time, I had a livejournal account. Back then, a lot of my friends frequently professed that they deeply enjoyed reading it. It has been a few years since then. Sometimes I read posts that I made a few years back and wonder at how much things have changed since then. Don't get me wrong, I wanted things to change. Any change was for the better, at least that's what I thought back then. To an extent, I think that most changes since then have been for the better, but there are some things that I just plain miss - but they are gone, and I can't get them back, so I won't try.

With any luck, my friends will still be interested in my ramblings. Given the preceding, I have, on a whim, decided to start this thing.

Let me start with the basics.

I'm Kenneth Douglas, Bruton High School Class of 2004, Thomas Nelson Community College Class of 2007, and God willing, James Madison University Class of 2009. I am 23 years old. I am a native of Williamsburg, Virginia. Thanks to the good graces of my best friend's parents, I still have the opportunity to live in Williamsburg sometimes.

My mom lives in/on Gwynn's Island, VA. It's an awesome place and I can't think of any place in the world where I'd rather relax and waste time.

My dad lives in Providence Forge, VA. It's a very dull place and there is nothing there besides houses in the woods.

I live in Harrisonburg, VA, because I go to JMU. It's a filthy, wretched slum. I cannot wait until I don't live there.

There, you have the basics. Now, it's been several months since I've done any blogging. I'm not going to recap anything, I'm going to start from what is going on currently, so, without further adieu -


I am home for spring break. Home is a very relative term for me. In general when I say "home" I am referring to my mother's house. And as it turns out, that is where I am right now. I love this place. My cat lives here right now, and there is a big flat lawn that I get to mow. What could be better? My lawnmower even has a cupholder for beer cans, and racing decals on it. It's also a little on the fast side, which is good for me, because I race it once a year. This is a pretty neat place. My mom has lived here for about 14 or 15 years. I grew up here partially. I have many fond memories of riding bikes around, sneaking around at night, and fishing off the shore here. Last summer, I spent a pretty good amount of time here, most of which was consumed by yardwork. The rest of which was taken up by a rivalry between myself and a very bold raccoon. I spent the entire summer trying to kill it, and was unsuccessful. It may be because I'm not a very good shot with a revolver, who knows. The raccoon was pretty speedy and agile. Anyway, this is the kind of place where you can do very little and still look back on time you spent here and be able to recite more memories and stories than you ever thought possible.

In any case, I am here now. Tomorrow the forecast is wondrous. I believe it is supposed to be in the upper 70s. I intend to go fishing. I have the weekend off from work! Why not? Sunday, I'll spend most of the day soaking up the NASCAR action, and then I am heading down to Williamsburg/Lightfoot to stay with Brian and his parents for a few days. They are awesome. His parents are great, they let me stay at their place when I'm working at the William & Mary Bookstore. It has been so wonderful, because work is actually rather hard to get right now, and the bookstore pays me rather well considering I'm hourly. I was about to say that maybe being there for five years helps but then I realized - Dear Lord, I have been there for six years. Yikes. Frankly, I have little faith that I will find anything better, at least during the summer. The job market is crap right now, especially for a person that wants to work in the history field.

This semester has been rough, but not in the usual way. It's been a very personal and very difficult struggle. It's my last semester, and I am overloading to graduate on time. Without rambling too much - I have been an absolutely horrid student. It is going to take a great deal from me to make sure that I graduate in May. I'm positive I'll do it, but I'm also positive the journey is going to be awful. I'll be glad when it's over!

I will leave it at that for now, however, I am looking forward to keeping up with this as my journey continues. That being said, YOU should check this every few days. You'll be glad you did.