Solar Flare

The other day my older brother asked me to help him out with a project he's working on.  He's on a team that's in the process of developing a new video game.  They were doing some sort of proposal or another and needed to provide a succinct description of how the game plays.  As nobody on the team could really put into words what the game entailed, my brother called me up to help them out.  He described various aspects of the game to me for about five minutes, and in a little under an hour I had a concise explanation of the game traveling through the interwebs into his e-mail inbox.

This wasn't an uncommon occurrence; I helped my brother write most of his papers throughout middle and high school and wrote all of his college entrance essays where he applied.  This wasn't cheating.  I never came up with anything on my own: I was just able to interpret all of his creative thoughts into prose.  I still help him out every now and then, as showcased in the most recent tag team.  It's never hard, and I usually find it really exciting and relaxing.  When I finished his last request and he texted me to let me know everything was a-okay, an idea dawned on me:

What if I did this for a living?

What if I offered my services as an etymological interpreter of ideas?  Is that even a real job?  I'm not quite sure, but it sounds like something I would be perfectly happy doing.  My internship and my undergraduate career will be complete this coming May, and I need to figure out what I'm going to do with my life after that.  I feel like I'm stumbling upon something that could be definite possibility.  I just need to figure out where to start with something like this.

On a completely unrelated note, I tried to take a picture of me wearing the new shirt my mom bought after work yesterday.  I didn't really capture the shirt very well, but I think I got something better: a sun flare.  Ever since I read an article on A Beautiful Mess about sun flares a year or so ago, I've always wanted to capture one.  I've never been able to until I accidentally got one on my phone's camera.  The pure definition of a happy accident!

Peace & Love