breaking the blog in & growing up on the internet
well, uh, hi. i've never had a blog like this before. i used tumblr in high school, sure, but does that really count? i don't think so.
anyway, i haven't set up an about me page yet, so might as well talk a bit about myself. i'm adrian, i'm transmasc and use he/they pronouns. i just recently turned 28 and i'm excited about turning 30. went to college for two and a half years for a bachelor's in english lit, crashed and burned magnificently because of undiagnosed adhd and not actually have a goal for myself, spent nearly 5 years piecing myself back together, and am now finally returning to school for communications. i'm a cool gamer and i love to write.
i've always been pretty immersed into the internet. as a wee tot, my mom worked from home on her own pc and my dad's job kept his shifts pretty unpredictable until he worked up through the ranks. i had no siblings, so i usually ended up pretty much on my own when it came to my free time. my mom set me up a neopets account in september 2002 after i got home from kindergarten and it effectively sealed the deal on me being one of those little kids who spent all their time on the internet in the 2000s.
it's weird thinking about how people even 5 years younger than me never got to experience the internet in the same way that i did with how much it's changed. i used to have nearly 10 different instances of internet explorer open because either tabs didn't exist at the time or i just didn't realize they did. the old web died during my childhood and i was only vaguely aware of it, but i did know i didn't like it.
i used to spend hours after school lurking on the nintendo power forums before they shut down. i wasn't old enough to make an account if i remember correctly (not that usually stopped me from lying about my age for most sites) but forums like that always terrified me anyway. it's odd to think how many of the sites i used to frequent back them are just... gone. perhaps some of them have been archived, but just as many completely wiped away.
anyway, i guess all that to say is that i want a place to keep my thoughts about stuff where it actually makes sense to post them. i have a lot of opinions i very rarely share in my online spaces because i never feel as if i have to space to explain them properly.
time to get them out!