Sent out one of those every six monthly 'I am still alive and my email account is still active' type emails yesterday to the lesser lights on my email address list. Lesser lights of course being a bit of a misnomer, apart from emailing news stories I like to my closest friends, and those being directly from the newspaper or media websites, I have hardly emailed at all in the last two months LOL.
Anyways, sent one of those generalistic, this is what I am doing but I am not going to be too specific kind of emails, to about thirty five or forty or maybe even fifty on my list, and have got a few interesting replies, in amongst the generalistic my life is just as exciting as yours sounds kind of replies.
The best mate I made while I was in England in 97/98 (he got me tickets to Wembley and included me in his group for an away Crystal Palace game, and also watching World Cup 98 with his mates, damned Argies LOL) is now a British Transport Policemen (BTP as the parlance seems to be), based in London, and yes, he says he was in the thick of it ten days ago. 'Bloody terrible scenes' is a direct quote - would love to ask more, being the info hound that I am, but maybe too soon to press...
Another email I got was from a girl in Auckland that I had a kinda sorta date with a couple of years ago while I was singleish LOL - we had met online (as I did back then), talked on the phone, found a mutual love for the first series of Secret Life Of Us, and I was going up to Auckland for a work thing and we arranged to meet. We saw Serendipity, which as stupid rom com was a silly choice for a first movie to see with a potential err whatever potential there was - but we are both John Cusack fans.
Movie went OK, but then had a couple of drinks at a bar off Aotea Square and the night fell flat. When I got back to Wellington, next time on the phone was don't get ideas above your station Pauly, and things drifted from there dammit. Anyways, got a reply email from her, and things are going well, enjoying life, and it sounds like I am enjoying mine - wow, it's so easy to make your life sound interesting, or is it actually because I may be a good writer LOL.
Both V and LHO have commented positively on my writing, and I have been thinking the last couple of days that that may be a goal I could possibly set myself in the next wee while, doing a writing course, either creative or journalistic - I would love to break into that. Or do you have to do an apprenticeship in Boring Suburbs Weekly before getting onto the Guardian and New York Times LOL. And is blogging the new journalism anyways (not with my readership stats it isn't LOL).
Hmm, I had a good article in the Guardian I think yesterday, and now I can't think what it was or what it was about aargh hate it when that happens - may find it, may not LOL.
Later peeps
Pauly
Anyways, sent one of those generalistic, this is what I am doing but I am not going to be too specific kind of emails, to about thirty five or forty or maybe even fifty on my list, and have got a few interesting replies, in amongst the generalistic my life is just as exciting as yours sounds kind of replies.
The best mate I made while I was in England in 97/98 (he got me tickets to Wembley and included me in his group for an away Crystal Palace game, and also watching World Cup 98 with his mates, damned Argies LOL) is now a British Transport Policemen (BTP as the parlance seems to be), based in London, and yes, he says he was in the thick of it ten days ago. 'Bloody terrible scenes' is a direct quote - would love to ask more, being the info hound that I am, but maybe too soon to press...
Another email I got was from a girl in Auckland that I had a kinda sorta date with a couple of years ago while I was singleish LOL - we had met online (as I did back then), talked on the phone, found a mutual love for the first series of Secret Life Of Us, and I was going up to Auckland for a work thing and we arranged to meet. We saw Serendipity, which as stupid rom com was a silly choice for a first movie to see with a potential err whatever potential there was - but we are both John Cusack fans.
Movie went OK, but then had a couple of drinks at a bar off Aotea Square and the night fell flat. When I got back to Wellington, next time on the phone was don't get ideas above your station Pauly, and things drifted from there dammit. Anyways, got a reply email from her, and things are going well, enjoying life, and it sounds like I am enjoying mine - wow, it's so easy to make your life sound interesting, or is it actually because I may be a good writer LOL.
Both V and LHO have commented positively on my writing, and I have been thinking the last couple of days that that may be a goal I could possibly set myself in the next wee while, doing a writing course, either creative or journalistic - I would love to break into that. Or do you have to do an apprenticeship in Boring Suburbs Weekly before getting onto the Guardian and New York Times LOL. And is blogging the new journalism anyways (not with my readership stats it isn't LOL).
Hmm, I had a good article in the Guardian I think yesterday, and now I can't think what it was or what it was about aargh hate it when that happens - may find it, may not LOL.
Later peeps
Pauly
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