Journal imroy's Journal: tada! 1
Here goes my first entry here. I'm not sure how much I should include here, since I already have a quasi-news/journal bit on my own little homepage, plus my own private journal.
Perhaps i should introduce myself for the few people who consider me a friend.
My real name is Ian. I'll leave you to figure out my nick, apart from giving the hint "Vulcans". I chose my nick quite a few years ago and it has served me well. I use it in a number of places online, and it seems to be pretty unique.
Now, to myself. Imagine a bright, outgoing, successful person full of life and surrounded by friends. Unfortunately that is not me. For the last two years I have been unemployed. For the last 4.5 years I have rented a single bedroom in a house with an attractive but attached girl, and her charming but dim and unappreciative boyfriend.
Even at 26, I still don't have a drivers license or a car. However, walking is a helluva lot cheaper and I certainly need the excercise. In the time since I moved out of home (4.5 years), I have lost at least 20Kgs. Most of that has been due to getting away from my mothers' well-stocked fridge and pantry. Plus, having gall stones last year helped a lot. Nothing makes you cut fat out of your diet like the threat of incredibly painful attacks lasting 5-7 hours each. Pretty soon I might be described as simply being "pudgy" rather than "a fat bastard".
Like most geeks, I don't have a lot of friends. In fact, I have very few. I haven't talked to any of my highschool friends since I left. Apart from my brother and his wife, the only person in the Sydney region that I've kept in touch with is an ex-workmate. And I haven't physically seen him in over three years, it's all by email.
This has been pretty negative, hasn't it? Maybe that's because it's now 11am here and I've just pulled an "all-nighter" for no particular reason. I'll try to get some sleep now, and write more later when I'm not such a sad-sack.
bye for now.
Hullo, Ian, get some sleep! (Score:2)
I'm in the latter group, I guess, and defining myself as "writing" (instead of unemployed), a course I recommend to all for general morale improvement.
Getting enough alcohol and getting enough sleep improve morale even faster, though!