first past the post

October 2004...blogger since. This is my first post, it took me what, almost 3.5 years? I vaguely remember getting all pumped up one day about how I was going to have a blog and put stuff on it and write cool articles about whatever the hell I wanted, and develop. But I didn´t. Instead I kept at it, other things that is, I got a degree, I got good marks, I read a lot, wrote a little, but not on the blog, travelled, completed all the little tasks that comprise our everyday lives, yet, when it came down to sitting down regularly and writing something, anything, down, I just didn´t do it. I think I know why this is. Has something to do with a verging on obsessive compulsive perfectionism that I have let stop me from moving past the beginning stages of many things I write, not that I´m even proof-reading this stuff, but, I just want to do stuff that fits right, something you read and say yeah man, that´s it, you´ve hit it on the head, whatever you´re talking about, that´s how you have to say it, and you did. But I haven´t. So I hesitate and I stop and I forget about it. That´s why it´s taken me so long to post something.

It´s taken me since October 2004 to fucking sit down and follow through with a fucking blog, which is the most informal method of publishing available to us today. So, I want to write, or at least to try and fucking write and see what comes out, and I figure this is as good a place to start as any. I´m going to put a bunch of things on here. It´ll be a kind of diary/ notebook/ keeping in touch kind of place with a few creative writing pieces thrown in, but don´t expect anything spectacular. I´m going to try and post a little every week and see where it goes. We´ll see. As most of you already know, I´m living in Spain at the moment, so all those hours I´m not talking to you, you can read what I might have been saying to you. I´m going to try not to leave too much out.

O.