I have been taking some time away from the internet. You may have been able to tell. All I’ve been using the internet for is reading email sent to me but not responding, checking drum and bass forums for upcoming gigs, chatting to friends. I haven’t felt inspired to write for a year, and was pretty disappointed to find out from an online forum that my ex P, who I sponsored for New Zealand residency and moved here with last year, was engaged to a girl I knew and the mutual friend of ours who I’ve known for 11 years was hiding this information from me.
So I went through bad patch, I didn’t like my flatmates, I was working with crazy people, could no longer trust my friends loyalties, had multiple dating disasters (each was rated for disasterness and will be documented at some point in the future) and generally wasn’t that happy. So of course I’m not going to post this on my website. You can’t be funny when you are bitter and hateful, although somehow I managed that back in the days when I wrote this site regularly. Instead of channelling my angst into witty online retort, I went out and got a life.
This new life consists of two wicked flatmates, Ally and Kate (new, I kicked the previous one out, that was difficult). We are working on being a “flat”; watching movies together, eating together, going to gigs together. My job is better; my workmates are happier, I have a new desk aka The Ani Cave, and I’m now fully self-employed. I have been taking photos at gigs and am getting serious about wanting to do this far more regularly. I shot Klute at Sandwiches on Saturday night, some preview photos being here, with the big versions being better and my favourites so far being this one, this one, and this one. I’ll be putting the rest up over the next couple of days, and will hopefully be shooting Amit in Auckland on the 8th of June. Lastly, I have also met a wonderful, amazing, beautiful guy called Duncan. I’ve never met anyone quite so incredible.
So to cut a long story short, you may see some more text from me going forward. I will always be updating Flickr as per usual, and will be putting together an online photography portfolio in the next couple of months.
P.S. My sister found out she was pregnant just after she got married. She’s having a boy.