Weigh-In Wednesday

Morning Weigh-in: 234

This is going to work. I feel good about it. I had my last bottle of Mountain Dew yesterday, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. My sweet nectar of the gods, I will miss you.

Plan for this week: Eat normally, and make a list of what I go through on an average week. I need a basis for comparison, after all.

Plan for next week: Same foods, but work on portion control. One step at a time.

This actually looks interesting.

I don't usually participate in memes these days - most of them are fairly played out, in my opinion - but this one caught my eye. It appealed to the writer in me, which is something I keep trying to get back into.

The Thirty-Day Meme

Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love, in great detail
Day 03 – Your parents, in great detail
Day 04 – What you ate today, in great detail
Day 05 – Your definition of love, in great detail
Day 06 – Your day, in great detail
Day 07 – Your best friend, in great detail
Day 08 – A moment, in great detail
Day 09 – Your beliefs, in great detail
Day 10 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 11 – Your siblings, in great detail
Day 12 – What’s in your bag, in great detail
Day 13 – This week, in great detail
Day 14 – What you wore today, in great detail
Day 15 – Your dreams, in great detail
Day 16 – Your first kiss, in great detail
Day 17 – Your favorite memory, in great detail
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday, in great detail
Day 19 – Something you regret, in great detail
Day 20 – This month, in great detail
Day 21 – Another moment, in great detail
Day 22 – Something that upsets you, in great detail
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better, in great detail
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry, in great detail
Day 25 – A first, in great detail
Day 26 – Your fears, in great detail
Day 27 – Your favorite place, in great detail
Day 28 – Something that you miss, in great detail
Day 29 – Your aspirations, in great detail
Day 30 – One last moment, in great detail

[Thirty-Day Meme] - Day 01

Introduce Yourself

My name is Kevin O'Shea, and I am twenty-five years old. My ancestry is mixed Irish and Russian, with both Catholic and Jewish family members. By Judaic Law, I am Jewish (as it is a matrilineal religion), though I am not practicing¹.

I am a writer. I tinker with story ideas, and I dabble with outlines and scripts. I run a (roughly) bi-weekly Dungeons and Dragons group for my friends, and I think I do a pretty good job². I have a few story ideas for original novels and short stories in my head, but I have yet to put any work into them outside of brainstorming.

I run the Made of Fail podcast with my co-host Dayna, who often has the great ideas for shows while I just bounce off her cues. Our conversations are full of puns, pop-culture references, and thoughtful ideas, which is what gave me the idea to record them in the first place. The show has grown considerably; we average about three hundred listeners and have had quite a few awesome guests, many of which have their own notoriety in one form or another. I'd be happy if the show kept growing, but I want to make sure it doesn't grow faster than we can control it.

I play World of Warcraft, but am uninterested in any other MMOs. I specialize in roleplaying games, science-fiction action/adventure/shooters, and I dabble in fighting games.

My favorite books lie within the science-fiction and fantasy overgenres, though I stray outside whenever I find something interesting. I am currently reading the Dresden Files.

I love intricate storylines, clever wordplay, musicals with a whole lot of people tapdancing at once, landscapes, mysteries, and - as recently as the last few years - horror. I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.

My hobbies are writing, Warcraft, and humorous footnotes³.

I tend to shift between talkative and quiet, depending on various circumstances. I don't always reach out to other people, but I try to be available when people reach out to me.

I am extremely stubborn; if I make up my mind to do something, goddamnit I'm going to do it. I also have a habit of refusing help unless I specifically ask for it. I also have a habit of offering to pay for things while at the same time refusing to let people pay for me. This gets me into trouble sometimes.

I'm also friendly, polite, and outgoing, especially when meeting people for the first time. I have no trouble striking up or joining a conversation with a complete stranger.

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1. To be entirely fair, I was raised around my Catholic family more often than my Jewish family, although my parents raised us without religion. Possibly to forestall any awkwardness. I know my grandmother expressed concerns about their mixed marraige.


2. I seem to specialize in getting first-timers interested in playing, and making them into life-long gamers.


3. Especially self-referencial footnotes³.