This is my first venture in to the world of blogging. Therefore it may be worthwhile to spend some time introducing myself and explaining why I've chosen to start this blog.
As my bio says, I'm a part 2 architectural assistant at national architectural firm _space group. Basically, that means I'm one short, but challenging, step away from becoming a fully fledged architect, all of eight years since I began on the long road to qualification. I'm originally from an uninspiring housing estate near Middlesbrough. One of my favourite quotes is from Bob Mortimer, a fellow smoggy, who once said that:
"People from Middlesbrough are proud of being from Middlesbrough but have no idea why".
I entirely agree. I'm fiercely proud of where I'm from, even if there is arguably little to be proud of. At the moment, my career occupies most of my time but in my limited spare time I enjoy playing and watching football and ice hockey, enjoying the odd beer at The Forth (my favourite watering hole in Newcastle) or simply relaxing with a good book, magazine (arcthitectural of course) or film - nothing exciting there I know, but I'm working on it!
Anyway, that's enough about me for now - after all one of the ideas of this blog is to give an insight into my life. I don't expect many people to be interested in what I have to say, which is where my second reason for wiritng this blog emerges - as a way of recording my inane daily thoughts and a method of venting the little frustrations that life seems to throw at me every now and then. I also see this as being a type of 'digital diary', something that I will be able to look back on in the future with, hopefully, a sense of warm nostalgia - something I recently experienced when using the 'My Year' application on Facebook. Which brings me onto my final intention for this blog - as an extension of my online 'social network'. I'm an advocate for social networking having a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and About.Me accounts, but I will expand on this in a future blog.
Anyway, I've got work to do so shall sign off for now.
Happy blogging...
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