30 DAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE; day 1; write some basic facts about yourself.

I know love muffins. It's been a while. 

 I'm trying to get back into this whole blogging thing yet again. I want to use it to stretch out my writing muscles and do something that has me writing every single day. I used to use this site back in high school called 750words.com that I swore by to keep me writing my miscellaneous stories and what not, but sadly I've fallen off the writing train since then. I almost thought about waiting until 2016 and doing it as a whole "New Year, New Me!" type of BS that everyone likes to convince themselves that they are swearing by in the new year. I can't lie, the fact that a new year is coming up is motivating me to change but I don't see the point of waiting until January 1st when I know what I want to do now. So, here I am. 

So hey! 

My name's Nia. I figure I'd add my middle name Simone to separate myself from the other Nias that inhabit the earth (Nia Long, and that one girl from that recent wild season of The Real World) I'm 20 years old and I'm a journalism student at a local university. 

(I always hate when I'm talking to someone for the first time and they always hit me with the "Tell me about yourself." I never know what to say. Like, am I supposed to sell myself right now? What is the pitch to sell Nia as a stellar friend and/or girlfriend? I hate it; I just want the conversation to develop naturally. But, I digress, I shall flesh out my "basic facts" just for y'all.) 

I love music. And when I say I love music I really freaking love it. Music has such an impact on my emotions. So I always have playlists on deck to medicate whatever type of negative things I may be feelings in my day to day life. I'm an absolute huge fan of hip hop. I try to listen to as much of it I can, even though I don't exactly love all the realms of what hip hop have to offer. But, that doesn't mean that I don't give it a solid listen. I don't like when people have a negative opinion on an artist that you haven't heard yet. Like, what are you going off of? Preconceived notions? Whatever you're being spoon-fed on your Twitter feed? 

(Minor Tangent: As I'm writing this I'm re-watching episodes of My Strange Addiction on Hulu. And I've always wondered, why do they always have the black people eating crazy things on here? Like, at least one of every three episodes has a black person eating random things. The last episode that I watched had some black man eating plastic bags, and one that I'm watching right now has a black woman that eats makeup. Why are they doing us like this? I mean, I'm still going to watch it...but it's always something that I've wondered about ever since I first started watching it.) 

I often fail at not listening to the same three albums all year, so I'm also trying to listen to 16 albums in 2016. It may not seem like a lot, but it would be certainly monumental for me. This year, I've been addicted to Childish Gambino's STN MTN/Kauai extravaganza, Big Sean's Dark Sky Paradise, Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment's Surf, & Bryson Tiller's T R A P S O U L. I dig R&B, but the more progressive new wave type of sound that has been progressing over the past five years with artists like The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, and Miguel. Speaking of Frank Ocean, where is that new album Boys Don't Cry? I feel like I'm playing Where in the World is Carmen Santiago? with that boy. 

One day, I hope to work for some dope ass music magazine like XXL or Complex so I can talk about this type of stuff all the time. 

I feel like I've already revealed too much and won't have anything to write about for the next 30 days. So, I shall stop here before I get too ahead of myself. 

I hope y'all will ride through this journey with me and do a little bit of blogging for yourself. They're some pretty dope, but wide open topics so you can take this challenge wherever the wind blows you. Here's the Wordpress post that I got the challenge from. 

So, hopefully I'll see y'all beautiful people tomorrow. 

Love y'all , Nia Simone