The Deranged Writer

XIX: Second Week of February 2025 (So Far)

Hello. Sorry for the lack of updates again. So, for a change, I will avoid making another Minute Warning post, and I will try to sum up what happened so far from February 10, 2025 to today, February 16, 2025.

XVIII: Full Circle II (The Diary’s 2nd Anniversary)

2 years ago yesterday, I published my first post here on The Diary. And looking back at those 2 years… oh, man, I have been through a lot.

In my first year of blogging on The Diary, I promised myself to publish 13 posts per month and I will blog every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thankfully, I reached my post goals and schedule mainly because of my Minute Warning series (where I write anything under time pressure under 10 to 30 minutes). And if I were to publish a longer post, I have a writing process that works. You can check my first-year retrospective on this post.

And today, in my second year of blogging at The Diary, I’m looking back and checking if my writing processes still work and if my blogging schedule still serves me well.

Song of the Moment LXX: Rise Against’s “Ready to Fall”

Since Monday, I have been listening more (again) to my second favorite band of all time, the American progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. But today, because of an old draft, I decided to set aside Coheed and Cambria for a while and listen more to another favorite band since 2007, the American punk rock band Rise Against.

I started listening to Spotify’s “This is Rise Against” playlist, and it has been fun listening to my favorite songs from theirs (e.g. “State of the Union”, “Prayer of the Refugee”) to tracks I have heard a few times (e.g. “Broken Dreams, Inc.”, “House on Fire”). But what is disappointing is that the best Rise Against (in my opinion) is not on the playlist. What’s that song? It’s “Ready to Fall”, the lead single from the band’s fourth studio album The Sufferer & the Witness, and my all-time favorite song from them. And tonight, it’s my Song of the Moment.

I suddenly remember the summer of 2007 and my first term as a college freshman. Oh, the memories…

The music video of Rise Against’s “Ready to Fall”.

Happy Wednesday, everyone.

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