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Currently listening to O Tannenbaum from A Charlie Brown Christmas

Currently craving a Reese's like nobody's business

    Hello, there. I'm glad you've stumbled upon my charming little blog - at least, I hope it's charming. 

    Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Sarah Jane, and I am an aspiring writer. My greatest ambition is to walk into a book store and to see my book on a shelf. I don't care about seeing someone read it, or hearing how much someone enjoyed it. I don't need that. I know that out there somewhere is one fan - be it a crazy stalker in an attic, or a friend of mine who is horribly biased - and that is the person for whom I write. Them, and the very lively, very determined characters who are desperate to escape my mind and start living their lives within their paperback worlds. 
    So, a little about me...

    I love peanut butter. I eat it plain, out of the jar. Smooth, never chunky. I don't enjoy crunching on hacked up peanut parts when I eat my peanut butter. After all, it's called peanut butter, not peanut why-do-I-feel-like-I'm-eating-damp-cat-litter. Just stop being lazy, and crunch the rest of those peanuts, JIF factory workers. No one likes a slacker. (P.S. Reese's = best candy ever. Peanut butter and chocolate should get together and make babies. Oh wait...)

    I read voraciously, but getting through one book takes me forever, because I'm almost always reading more than one at the same time. I am currently reading three-ish. I feel like I have another I've started, but I don't know where it is, because my room is still suffering from the aftermath of NaNoWriMo, and my floor is littered with debris and laundry. I kid you not, one of my cats jumped out from under a shirt on the floor today and tore out of the room like a pit bull was on his heels. It was probably the spare sock monster who lives under my bed. 

    I love to sing. Music is a large part of my life - I play piano, sing, and can and do write music on the rare occasion that the Muse descends. I almost always have a song in my head, like an iPod on shuffle, or background music for my life. Sometimes it annoys me. More often it annoys everyone else. Pro for reading my blog: you don't have to listen to me singing all the time. 

    It is currently 3:06 am. And I'm wide awake. Could have something to do with the fact that I'm drinking my second Coke in the last six hours, but probably not, as I normally consume much more caffeine than this. Could have something to do with the fact that I am officially on winter break since I finished my last final today - err, yesterday. (Curse you, Italian! Bo!) Or it could be that I'm bordering on nocturnal. All my best writing comes after midnight. As well as the least studying. 

    Jesus Christ is my Savior. I'm not one to shove religion down people's throats. Heck, when I see those people on campus with the hate and repent signs and such, I get as annoyed as any atheist would. But I get annoyed because, in my humble opinion, that's hardly the way to get people to listen. When do you stop listening in any argument? The moment your opponent starts yelling and accusing you of being wrong. The way to reach people is through tender words and open ears, not by hoarse outbursts of, "YOU'RE GOING TO HELL." Anyway. Off of my soapbox. 

    The physical act of writing is so cool to me. That's half the reason I do it. Watching the pen move purposefully across the paper, seeing the ink flow out of the pen and the letters leak onto the paper - I'm enthralled by it. I'm really particular about the pen and paper I use. Well, mainly the paper. There's some paper - notebook paper - that, while I know notebook paper is not glossy, it has something of that in its texture, and pens write weird on it. I like the kind of paper that seems really soluble, the kind that soaks the ink right up, no matter what pen you use. It's almost like the paper takes my words in and really holds them deep inside, rather than just on the surface like that other paper. I also hate typing on the computer. It is impossible for me to be creative while typing. I have to put the words on the paper myself to be able to write anything good, or good in my eyes, at least. 

    Well, if you've made it this far, dear reader, I applaud you. I also thank you. If there is anyone out there who finds my thoughts worthy of reading, I'm thrilled. You are awesome, in every way possible. Keep being awesome - just go out and awesome all over the place.