I am trying to write this and my mind is blank. I really don't know what I want to write about. So it's pretty ironic, at least to me, that I am writing about not knowing what to write. I feel like I should be in one of those movie montages where the "Final Countdown" is playing in the background and a bunch of different clips of me trying to think of ideas is flashing across the scene. Crumpled up pieces of paper, check, banging head on the desk, check, groaning in frustration, check.

I don't have a boyfriend or any kind of love interest, so I am not going to do an open letter to my boyfriend or an open letter to the guy I wish was mine. I've already done one about my cat and two about "The Office". I'm not particularly clever and there is now way that my writing is ever going to go beyond this web page. I would love if that happened but it's never going to. ++++++++++++ (I'm leaving all of these plus signs here because my cat was rubbing his face on my +keyboard and this ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ happened.

Meet Stan Lee.

I am a very talkative person, anyone I know will tell you that. It's not very often where I find myself in the predicament of having nothing to say, but that's where I am at right now, which is why you are reading this bogus article that's basically all of the random thoughts running through my head, because I don't know what else to say. Finals week is over and all I want to do is drink a Coca-Cola Slurpee and watch "Game of Thrones". See what I mean about random thoughts?

I can't even imagine what it must be like for journalists, like what do they do if their mind is blank? Their jobs depend on it. Can you imagine if "Dear Abby's" column just said: "I have no idea what to write about, have a nice week." Speaking of news, I saw an article today about how McDonald's was getting rid of Orange Hi-C as a drink option. Seriously, the removal of a menu item at a restaurant was news, they even did a video segment on it! I mean we are facing a crisis with North Korea, there's a war in Syria, we've got issues with the government here, and the drink menu at McDonald's is the story the news chose to go with. Guess they were having a similar week as me. LOL.

I think a big thing that I'm struggling with is that because not a lot of people care what I have to say. I'm not a very good writer and even when I write about things that I'm passionate about, my articles don't get much attention. Like I wrote one about Black studies, another about Syria, and another about the pro-life movement, none of which got very many views. But my article that was just random photos of my cat did and so did the one with would-you-rathers for college students. It seems like no one wants to read about situations that make them think, that make them challenge how they see the world. They want to laugh at someone's post relating "Bob's Burgers" to college or they want to cry reading one of the ten million articles about relationships. They don't want to read that the pro-life movement isn't as evil as its portrayed to be and that we aren't actually against women's healthcare. They want to see 100 videos of cats getting scared by cucumbers. As time has gone on, my article topics have reflected that, because I've been picking topics that don't mean a lot to me but I think other people will want to read about. So I've conformed, but I'm going to stop doing that, because I think that's why my mind is blank. I'm sick of having to write about nonsense that doesn't truly mean anything. I want to write about the concentration camps in Chechnya, how the USA doesn't allow felons to vote, get financial aid for school, or get food stamps; I want to write about human trafficking.

"I write what I like" ~Steve Biko

And that's what I'm going to do from now on.