My name is Geoff and I have medieval obsessions. There is no 12-step program for me, no group sessions or sponsors. I was born 867 years too late and there is no help for me.
Enough melodrama, Geoff, let’s talk about the real me. I am your standard 19 year old freshman at the University of Toronto. I take the subway to school every day, and have no idea what I want to do with my life. As such I take a whole whack of different arts courses in the hopes that something will eventually appeal to me. Maybe a teacher. I work at staples as one of a select group known as boy copy centre associates, in a department largely dominated by women.
Whenever I’m not at school or work with any regularity, I tend to become nocturnal, relying on Youtube, DVDs, and my brother’s PS3 for company. I have a few close friends and a rather close family of five, including two parents, an older brother, and younger sister.
I think my mother has always known I am a man out of my time. I have been obsessed with everything medieval for most of my life, although I hide it well. I’ve had my perfect castle designed in my head for nigh on a dozen years, and my favourite sword for most of that time as well. More on those later.
Officially, this is an experiment in organizing my thoughts. I guess I figure I’ll be calmer of mind and soul if I write it all down. As an added bonus, I often do my best thinking in wild, nonsensical rants about going to Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament, just as an example (and preview of things to come? Stay tuned.). I find that writing things down helps keep it all straight in my head.
If anyone actually ever reads this, congratulations, you are more bored than I am. Though keep in mind this is therapeutic for me; you really do get nothing out of this. Plus I’m not so much bored as listless.
In the great traditions of organization and order, lists are key. My first will be a short list of stuff I’ve been thinking about for so long, I just need to get out into the cosmos before I implode:
--Castles & knighthood
--Sharp things, including such classics as the sword
--The cottage/rural life
--Archery & hunting
--Youtube and its sell-outs
--LEGO & other childish ventures
--Star Wars vs. Star Trek, also space ships
--Superheroes
--And many more, including various movies, shows, music, and other altogether less disturbing content
As you can well imagine, I’m not just obsessed with everything medieval, and of course this list reflects a fraction of the things I just can’t seem to ever get out of my head. As you’ll soon find out if you haven’t already, I enjoy a wide variety of subjects (none of them all too intellectual), not to mention ranting about them. Some will turn out better than others, as some I’ve brooded on for many years, while others will resemble more so the dredges of my subconscious. Again I stress the therapeutic (and hence possibly not very entertaining) nature of much of what I will be writing in this weblog, if one can call it such. I wonder if Nintendo has a Wiiblog. That’d be sweet.
I think the reason I decided to write this publicly as opposed to in some manner of diary is the satisfaction of posting. Certainly I could commit all of this to pen and paper (indeed this whole first entry was composed in its entirety earlier this weekend on a multitudinous sea incarnadine… of post-it notes while at work, between customers of course -- no, I'm serious, like half a stack of red post-its, I'm not even kidding), but there would be little actual satisfaction in doing so, and there would be no accountability. Plus I can tell people I have a blog, which is a much cooler thing nowadays than it was several years ago when I had my whiney, unfulfilling tween blog on Xanga, which is a total sell-out now by the way. It is an embarrassing and useless footnote in my “life” online, and I wish to not think about it as I strike out to clear my mind of the endless parade of pet-peeves, rants, and general tomfoolery that all prance down the avenues of my mind.
See? Already I feel calm and organized, and though my mind still buzzes softly with rants both accumulated and inevitable, a peace rests in me where before that was only chaos and CRAZY. I guess.
See? Already I’m getting distracted and talking about nothing.
DFTBA
Enough melodrama, Geoff, let’s talk about the real me. I am your standard 19 year old freshman at the University of Toronto. I take the subway to school every day, and have no idea what I want to do with my life. As such I take a whole whack of different arts courses in the hopes that something will eventually appeal to me. Maybe a teacher. I work at staples as one of a select group known as boy copy centre associates, in a department largely dominated by women.
Whenever I’m not at school or work with any regularity, I tend to become nocturnal, relying on Youtube, DVDs, and my brother’s PS3 for company. I have a few close friends and a rather close family of five, including two parents, an older brother, and younger sister.
I think my mother has always known I am a man out of my time. I have been obsessed with everything medieval for most of my life, although I hide it well. I’ve had my perfect castle designed in my head for nigh on a dozen years, and my favourite sword for most of that time as well. More on those later.
Officially, this is an experiment in organizing my thoughts. I guess I figure I’ll be calmer of mind and soul if I write it all down. As an added bonus, I often do my best thinking in wild, nonsensical rants about going to Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament, just as an example (and preview of things to come? Stay tuned.). I find that writing things down helps keep it all straight in my head.
If anyone actually ever reads this, congratulations, you are more bored than I am. Though keep in mind this is therapeutic for me; you really do get nothing out of this. Plus I’m not so much bored as listless.
In the great traditions of organization and order, lists are key. My first will be a short list of stuff I’ve been thinking about for so long, I just need to get out into the cosmos before I implode:
--Castles & knighthood
--Sharp things, including such classics as the sword
--The cottage/rural life
--Archery & hunting
--Youtube and its sell-outs
--LEGO & other childish ventures
--Star Wars vs. Star Trek, also space ships
--Superheroes
--And many more, including various movies, shows, music, and other altogether less disturbing content
As you can well imagine, I’m not just obsessed with everything medieval, and of course this list reflects a fraction of the things I just can’t seem to ever get out of my head. As you’ll soon find out if you haven’t already, I enjoy a wide variety of subjects (none of them all too intellectual), not to mention ranting about them. Some will turn out better than others, as some I’ve brooded on for many years, while others will resemble more so the dredges of my subconscious. Again I stress the therapeutic (and hence possibly not very entertaining) nature of much of what I will be writing in this weblog, if one can call it such. I wonder if Nintendo has a Wiiblog. That’d be sweet.
I think the reason I decided to write this publicly as opposed to in some manner of diary is the satisfaction of posting. Certainly I could commit all of this to pen and paper (indeed this whole first entry was composed in its entirety earlier this weekend on a multitudinous sea incarnadine… of post-it notes while at work, between customers of course -- no, I'm serious, like half a stack of red post-its, I'm not even kidding), but there would be little actual satisfaction in doing so, and there would be no accountability. Plus I can tell people I have a blog, which is a much cooler thing nowadays than it was several years ago when I had my whiney, unfulfilling tween blog on Xanga, which is a total sell-out now by the way. It is an embarrassing and useless footnote in my “life” online, and I wish to not think about it as I strike out to clear my mind of the endless parade of pet-peeves, rants, and general tomfoolery that all prance down the avenues of my mind.
See? Already I feel calm and organized, and though my mind still buzzes softly with rants both accumulated and inevitable, a peace rests in me where before that was only chaos and CRAZY. I guess.
See? Already I’m getting distracted and talking about nothing.
DFTBA
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