Ahhh, fresh...

I'm going to blame Leah for this. Back in early 2002 she persuaded me to get a blog so I could write stuff. At the time I was half way through my first year at Uni, so I had a fair bit to write about during the early hours of the morning when I should have been writing essays, or reading books, or sleeping. It started off with Diaryland, I wrote about 100 entries in 3 or 4 years, including the rather brilliant fictional works known as The Dave Chronicles.

One day I decided to start writing a book. At the time I was heavily in to reading and would get through a book a week, sometimes more, so I decided to give it a bash myself and see what I could come up with. The unfortunate thing with me is that I have a rather limited attention span so I need something to be really fun and interesting otherwise i'll get bored and give up, so rather than plan something with the traditional beginning, middle and end, I just made it up as I went along. Before I knew it i'd written 5 or 6 chapters of The Dave Chronicles, and if I do say so myself they're rather amazing.

As with most things though, I got bored and/or my attention was drawn elsewhere. Leah (see, it IS her fault) got a new blog on LiveJournal and persuaded me to get a new one on there (cos Diaryland was obviously not down with the kids). So I did, and I wrote some things on there but not very often and it was soon forgotten. However, I did resurrect The Dave Chronicles and wrote a couple of chapters to extend Daves adventures.

But, like before, I got bored and forgot all about it. Until now! Yes, Leah turns up in this paragraph too. She has got a new blog on this 'ere website, so I have got one too. I don't know exactly what i'll write on here, or how long it will last, but going from my track record I give it a couple of months before I forget about it again. I'll try not to of course, but I can't promise anything.

I find that I am one of those people who thinks a lot, usually far too much actually and I quite regularly get myself worked up over nothing. Sometimes I think to myself that I should really write down a lot of what I think, because a) then I can read back and realise how stupid I am sometimes, and b) so I can actually remember what i've thought about. I have an awful memory, and when people ask me "Hey Phil what have you been up to lately?", all I usually say is, "Well i've just been working really, had a couple of nights out here and there but nothing too exciting". This is actually a load of hairy bollocks, as I realised the other day that I do do a lot of stuff but I just forget about it all.

Over the past few weeks (or is was it a couple of months?) I was writing the longest email in the world to Leah (yeah, her again) with stuff that i'd been up to and random thoughts and stuff like that. And before I pressed the "Send" button the other day, I read back and realised that I have actually done a lot of stuff and written down my thoughts in a reasonably coherent way. So rather than forget everything I do between now and next spring, i'm going to do my best to write all sorts of things in here so that when someone asks "Hey Phil, what have you been up to lately?", I can say "check out my blog, yo - http://thingswhatphildoes.blogspot.com". Not only will it save me having to talk to a long period of time, freeing me up to do all sorts of fun stuff, but also i'll look like i'm home with the downies with all this technology and stuff: "Hey, Phil has a blog! Oh my god he's so cool, too cool for school".

Who knows, I might even carry on writing The Dave Chronicles, too. Stay tuned!