So here's my problem.  I really like writing, but I can never come up with ideas for things to write about.  In fact, I've only been a member of Mindsay for about a week, but already I'm having trouble figuring out what I can write about.  It's been this way all through college.  Back in high school, I'd like to think I was a pretty good writer.  But now, the ideas just won't come to me.  I feel like I have the world's biggest writer's block.

I blame it on engineering.

Don't get me wrong, I like my job, and I liked the engineering classes I took in college.  The problem with them, however, is that everything is based on equations and formulas.  The most creativity you run into is figuring out what name you want to give a variable.  "Let's call this one 'x' and this one 'h' for height."  Very creative.

I look at some of the writing I did back in high school, and I can't believe it was actually me who wrote it!  "When the hell was I ever creative enough to come up with that?"  What happened since then?  Engineering.  The engineering curriculum basically sucked the creativity right out of me and replaced it with mechanic number-crunching. 

Maybe I could have stopped it, if I had realized it was happening.  But, before I knew it, I suddenly couldn't think of anything to write a short story about, couldn't come up with a good poem.  It was all about how much force was applied to a steel I-beam or how many pounds a concrete slab could hold before it would crack.  Useful things to know, sure, but not much fun! 

I'm hoping now that college is over, maybe I can begin to uncover a bit of the creative spirit I once had.  Things would be a hell of a lot more fun that way for me as well as for those of you who read my entries. 

Cuz I don't think anyone wants to hear much about concrete and steel