Amateur

If i had to think of one thing I am an amateur at and had to tell the whole world wide web it would be playing electric guitar and rocking out with my band...but seeing as that is not true I guess I will have to confess my slightly embarrassing hobby of writing poetry. I have been writing poetry since sophomore year of high school, and publishing it since then. Mostly I have published stuff in high school and college publications, but recently I published in the HCC "Muse" which took submissions from professors and students...so that was pretty cool. Honestly I really like the way poetry can be whatever you want it to be, it's not like painting where you have to take ten minutes to get out the easel, the paint the paintbrushes...it's on the spot you can write poetry pretty much anywhere. Sadly I can't really transform my love for writing couplets into an actual career unless I want to starve (which might be cool...better than weight watchers after all).The ironic thing is that I am taking an analysis of literary language and the poetry section of that class was horrible and I hated every minute of studying poetry that intrinsically. It's a catch22...be an English major and get to do what you want to do for your career..but suffer through James Joyce and tens of thousands of Old English sonnets to get there.