A rambly sort of introduction

If you're reading this, chances are you already know who I am. I'm not naive enough to assume that my foetus of a blog is going to reach an audience of more than the few people who I over-enthusiastically message the link to, but just in case you got lost on your way to your next cat video and inexplicably found yourself here, let me inform you that your hair is looking fantastic today. Also, hi. I'd try to tell you roughly what to expect from this blog but at the moment, that's as much a mystery to me as it is to you. I always find the best way to avoid disappointment when embarking on something new is to get people to lower their expectations, that way even the most lame and vacuous thing I fart out might seem at least a little bit interesting. Feel free adjust yours accordingly. I'll wait for you.

Done? Grand. Now, I'm not going to lie to you, I'm basically only here because I have nowhere better to be. Fills you with confidence doesn't it? In all seriousness though, I am actually feeling quite excited about this whole thing. It's been far too long since I've written anything of substance and I'm definitely out of practice, but the only way to get back into practice is to... practise? Normally, university would serve to fill the void but my current (with any luck, temporary) occupation of Full Time Ill Person has delayed my return, leaving me with more time and more opinions that I know what to do with. Cue: shiny new blog.

I won't flatter myself with the assumption that I have anything especially new or original to offer the internet, but equally I think I have had a unique enough life so far to be able to contribute something. A cool side effect of writing about your thoughts is that it makes you examine them first, which helps you get rid of the illogical and toxic and downright bizarre and leave your head all shiny and full of happy things. At least, you'd hope it works like that, but I'm sure it doesn't really. I know there's a lot of weird that slips through my net, and it's been nesting between my ears for so long now that I'm kind of attached to it. The resident weird tends to make periodic appearances on my tumblr in the form of ranty, disjointed streams of consciousness but I'm hoping this blog will be better than that. It's going to be like my tumblr's responsible older sister, but the sort of responsible where it's also kind of cool and maybe agrees to buy my tumblr alcohol every so often provided it promises to not get pregnant. I'm not sure where this is going. Bad analogy is bad. Anyway, the point is that I'll try my best, but I can't guarantee the things you read here will be 100% sane 100% of the time. I'd tell you I'm sorry but I don't think I am.

These introduction-type posts always feel a little bit awkward so I won't draw out the misery any longer. I'll be back soon with something slightly more substantial; until then, I don't really have a good way to end this post. Everyone likes cake right? Cake is good? I'll leave you with cake.

Cake.

Abi xx