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In my personal history, this Monday is signifies both an end and a beginning. My studentship has ended now and this Monday my employed life is beginning with one week long training courses. To the most readers of this post, this may seem like not a big deal, it is indeed so. Yet again, being a student is something I know best for so long and I enjoyed it so much. My lifestyle have to change accordingly and I feel bitter about it.
Most important thing I’m upset about changing is the waking hours. Waking up early seems almost impossible since I’m an absolute night owl. In university, I had classes as early as 09.00 am, I simply skipped them mostly. I’m that much of a lazy owl.
The other matter is vacations. As a student, you have a long vacation, but when you are employed, you only have 2 weeks!! Unfair 
How can you even relax after one year’s work with just two weeks. Sounds out of possibility.
I can’t recall any other important reasons and the ones I wrote is just childish, I admit. But these two things (second one mostly, I don’t know any night owls except me) are the most complained factors by the employed people around me.
Complaining resolves nothing, of course. I’ll try and see what is it like.
Hi there,
As a lazy author, I’m temporarily having difficulty about what to write next. I’m wandering around other people’s blogs and whenever I come across a “Tips for (Newbie) Bloggers” article, it emphasizes the importance of frequent update. That makes me feel kind of guilty and I decided to justify my not-so-frequently-posting intervals.
Firstly, the city I’m living is terribly hot and humid, no rain not even a single rain cloud for quite some time now. It’s brightly shiny and annoyingly humid. This weather kills my every possible ability, let alone my writing capacity.
Secondly, my last summer holiday is about to end. Less than one week later, my job is starting. Since I’m not a person who can live with a tight schedule , I’m quite worried with my new life and can’t help cling onto my last days of unoccupied new graduate frantically.
And finally, I’m having a negative mood about how rotten a place has become the world we are living in and trying to remember what good things are there struggling to exist despite the wicked and mindlessly destructive side of human beings.
(This should be a general announcement actually)
To the prospective visitor of Misty Forest: your comments are pretty much welcome (for any post, any time even in any language 
) Why don’t you just say “hi” this time.
Only the third day on my blog and I’m having blogger’s (writer’s) block!?? I knew I should have written down the ideas when they were wandering in my mind. Argh!
As a newbie blogger, I like to share what was the process of making a blog like to me up until now and try to highlight important rules I’ve learned so far. There are so many good guides full of useful tips out there, so I wont repeat the topics they extensively cover.
If you think that blogging might be cool for you and are unfamiliar with the blogosphere, you will do a lot of reading to find a starting point. I did and most of guides and tips usually say the same things. In order to save a fellow pre-blogger who might end up reading this post spending unnecessarily long time and become lost in the how-to guide jungle, I will advise ProBlogger’s Blogging Tips For Beginners as a well- organized and comprehensive source. Blogosphere Jargon might be shocking to you as much as to me, so this glossary on Samizdata.net can come in handy when you need. Another important thing to do for beginner bloggers is to avoid “monetize your blog” guides until setting up the blog and beginning to post. In my experience they only distract your focus and take your precious time so slow you down on the glorious quest of setting up your blog and writing first post. After you achieve first post, you will probably have a stable-and-working-accordingly blog, so you will have plenty of time now for discovering new shores of blogging.
I learned very important lesson during this process: write down all the content (topics, categories, tags… everything) you want to blog, whenever comes it to your mind. Never mind if you are pre-blogging stage, or having dinner, walking outside, about to sleep. When I began to think whether I should have a blog, lot and lots of ideas were racing in mind and I never tried to write them down because I wasn’t even on pre-blogging stage yet. Result; I can’t remember most of them now.
…you’ve entered into the borders of the Misty Forest.
After some struggle due to lack of enough knowledge about blogging thing (php and cms-wise), here I am writing my first post proudly at last. I’m not sure what would be the proper first post, so I decided to share my excitement of making things this far. During preparation stage, I visited so many “how to blog” sites and most of them discouraged me unexpectedly. So many tips, different jargon, various blogging aims etc… It gave me the feeling that people makes blogs in order to compete, not share their story, interests and so on in the first place. But now, I think it is not as scary as it sounds and it is fun actually.
