I am a writer.

Misery loves company. I've been depressed. I recently turned 30 and have nothing to show for it. I've been unemployed since Friday, June 1, 2012. I have no AC so I'm getting hotter with every keystroke, which adds another degree of torture. Yet what was my word for today, but Refractory (rih-frack-tuh-ree) - Capable of enduring high temperature. I subscribe to the school of thought that cooler heads prevail. 

At least I have my yerba mate and assortment of tea. Yet too much of a good thing can be bad for you. A Mayo Clinic nutritionist, Katherine Zeratsky, R.d., L.D. in so many words advised that some believe yerba mate can relieve fatigue, promote weight loss, ease depression and headaches, and help treat various other conditions. However drinking large amounts of yerba mate over a prolonged period of time may cause cancer and smoking can increase your odds. I would much rather increase my odds for winning the lottery.

  

Thank god I don't smoke so I'll take my chances. At least I have tea. No wait, according to my brother, tea causes gallstones. However, a LIVESTRONG.com article revealed that too much black tea may cause kidney stones. Today, I felt like having cinnamon black tea. Well what doesn't kill you; makes you stronger.  I'm broke anyway so I won't be able to restock. And that folks is what slow roasted nuts is partially about - ironic humor.

Yet what is humor without tears...

You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) was listed on Amazon's top 100 free kindle books. Therefore, it was right in my price range. As I allowed my kindle to read to me Jeff Goin's ebook, I started to cry and not because the robotic voice did not do the words justice. I had an epiphany. Damn it! I am a writer. So here I am practicing, sweating. Despite possible kidney stones, I defiantly sip my cinnamon black tea. 

I have faith in Cami (camellia sinensis).  Today's tea infused search brought me to Samovar. Samovar is tea lounge in San Francisco, CA. I hope to visit it when times are better. At any rate, they have a word of the day section. Entelechy was given it's 15 minutes of fame. Entelechy is the converting of the theoretical into the practical, the realization of true potential. Perhaps another sign that I am headed in the write direction. I meant to use right but Freud strikes again. 

Freud once said: "Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions."

Entelechy for some reason makes me think of Lich. The only reason I am familiar with it is because one appeared on Lost Girl. According to Wikipedia: "In modern fantasy fiction, a lich sometimes spelled liche, cognate to Dutch lijk and German Leiche, both meaning "corpse") is a type of undead creature. Often such a creature is the result of a transformation, as a powerful magician or king striving for eternal life uses spells or rituals to bind his intellect to his animated corpse and thereby achieve a form of immortality."

Like the Lich, we all seek immortality. Some chose to have children - a legacy. Fortune cookie wisdom has taught me that ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own. If you can conceive it then you can achieve it. A paraphrasing of Napoleon Hill's baby. 

I am a writer.