No, I’m not going to be making it a habit to put animal names on my titles. It’s not my fault, but I apologize. Or as SOME people say… “apologise”. I honestly don’t know what the correct term is, but in the US it’s “apologize”, though both may be allowed.

Dictionary.com, people.

It says both are correct. Rationalise and Rationalize are also correct. I DO hope all you wonderful English-speaking folk will be able to look past these small cultural differences. I mean no disrespect to your language. lol.

Moving on! Yes, my colorful sneakers. I don’t know, man. They seem to steal the spotlight all the time. I thought it was really flattering when people complimented me (or gave me evil snares, and yes, I HAVE gotten evil snares), but now I’m beginning to envy them.

When I went to New York, a lot of people would talk to me because of my shoes and stuff. I found it really neat lol. I was walking down the street in wonderful NY, and I hear this woman say “Honey, look at his shoes.” Since I obviously knew she was talking about me, I turned around and alas there was this young woman and her boyfriend/husband looking at my shoes. So, she sees me and goes “I like your shoes!”

“Thanks!”

It hasn’t gotten any better. Last Sunday, one of my friends introduced me to her boyfriend. He speaks English only, and since I know English I decided to be nice and talk to him so he could feel a bit more comfortable in this Spanish-speaking island.

-”It’s nice to meet you, Sam!”

-”You too. Nice shoes! They’re like 0.0″

O.o

And that’s when I realized I was being used by my sneakers. All this time, I thought I had chosen THEM, but in reality it was my sneakers who had chosen me. They had chosen me since the beginning of time as a mere tool to take them places. They use me to meet people and to get compliments. It’s all about them. People don’t really care about what I’M like, they just like my shoes. Life is so superficial like that.

SOOO… I’ve decided to donate them to someone who doesn’t walk alot. That way those stupid evil Pumas won’t be able to go on with their master plan of conquering people’s attention. They will die old and new-looking inside someone’s closet. With a little bit of luck, I will be able to find someone who works at a farm. That way, the Pumas will have to work around animal feces all the time. They would stink. And no one would care about them. THEN, they’d be sorry about using me.

And since I feel like a mad man, talking about inanimate objects as something with a mission and a plan, I will say goodnight to everyone. Sleep deprivation can do strange things to a person. Also, it’s the fact that my brain hasn’t had rest since January. Which really sucks. So yeah, in conclusion, my shoes are not evil, they do not have a plan to conquer people, they do not use me, and I am not giving them away. They are just attention-worthy. It’s probably because very few people on this island walk around with multi-colored shoes. lol… suckers all of them. They know not what they are missing out on.

Updated 6.25.06: Here are the shoes/sneakers/trainers. Since I am from Puerto Rico and am educated under the United States’ variation of English, I will call them as I wish.

…. and this one was taken in New York, the same day the girl on the street complimented me.

How long have you been blogging for? I would say four years. That’s almost as long as I have been running this website, which has been a blog in some form or other the majority of the time. But to be a touch more honest and accurate, it’s more likely to be four months in total.

Writing demands thought, which involves mental energy. Blogging demands creative thought, which must be maintained in order to keep the blog ‘alive’. And this takes a lot of effort and motivation to consistently be making posts on an every-couple-of-days basis. Put that alongside writing to yourself on a simple computer screen and it’s not too difficult to understand why many bloggers, like me, seem to make completely sporadic posts which are sourced from only spurts of motivation and creative thinking. And boredom. Sometimes I steal a slice of inspiration from another website or blog and try and encapsulate that here on oziz. I continue on my quest to achieve the success and popularity others have experienced however, after a while I lose interest - something else in life picks up or I get tired of the effort required; what’s the point, what am I gaining in blogging?

If I had something better and more productive to do right now, I would not be writing this entry. The reason I am making this post is because I have been motivated by this group writing project on ‘blog goals’. The motivation is gaining a link on problogger, and having not much better to do (despite examinations starting the end of this week). Similarly, my past blogging bursts of creative energy can be attributed to other incentives which I perceive to benefit oziz and my satisfaction, such as ranking in Google for certain themes I write about. Alternatively discovering sources to write up about gives me the motivation to make a blog. Recently I dugg up this site which is community news website. At other times (seemingly during the gloomy winter season) I just want to get something out of my head and onto a computer screen. Writing does help to clear up your thoughts. However, this can conflict with my readers’ interests who are looking to read something mildly interesting. Post-Christmas life is more than dull. I apologise now for that crap.

Anyway, to the topic - blogging goals. Setting goals is a very good method of acheiving and forcing some sort of motivation out of you. I tried this technique recently in developing a revision timetable where my days were divided into segments each of which had a topic to revise. Following a timetable gave my structure to my revision and it is had to ignore due to the guilt trip I imposed on myself if I didn’t stick to it. Needless to say, I don’t actually use the one I made because it didn’t fit my method of learning. There were too many topics in a day, so I adapted it a little but the time slots are still in my head.

I think this is a bit off-topic again. My main goal for blogging is really to acheive self-satisfaction which I measure on the number of visitors I get to parts, and all, of my website. It’s difficult to explain, it’s like a game. If I blog then I know that’s more content stored on my website which is another topic to be indexed in Google (and other websites). This bit is my goal really - seeing my daily visitor number grow. It must be weird to read, but I guess it’s related to that self-satisfaction motive.

At the end of the day, I don’t really gain much from blogging except enjoying the excitement of watching the unique hits to my website develop and noting how people get here. Blogging is sometimes personal venture which helps to clarifies thoughts and at other times a drive for success. But most of the time it’s because I just have nothing better to do.

Take a look at the Green Party website and you’ll get a good idea of how pessimistic they actually are. The Party implies the British Isles being reduced to this if their policies are not enforced to combat such rapid sea level rises due to climate change.So maybe you should think about voting for the Green Party if you live anywhere below eight metres above sea level or are predicted to be blue according to the forecast. Either that or move house.

Other than that I’d go with the Lib Dems, if I had the choice of course.

The past month or so my computer has been reduced to a pathetic crawl. I would wipe the system and start a fresh but I have so so so much crap which I don’t want to delete as I have a possesion problem. Just scanned with AdAware and it found 24 naughty objects, 18 of which it found at the last scan so something’s not right, is it? Oh look, FireWorks just popped up with its loading screen after a three minute wait. Fantastic. Someone please tell me what I can do! My Internet Explorer is totally bugged up and Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware is a load of bull. All it can do is tell me I’ve got problems with my system (mainly browser hijacks) every time I start up but never actually does anything about it. AAAAAAAArgh!!

I’m not into all the take life slow stuff at the moment, although I really wish I was.