An Introduction
14 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in Blogging, Writing Tags: books, history, life, love, music, post-graduateness, thoughts
Hello! Welcome to A Right Shambles. This is probably my third-or-thereabouts attempt at creating this blog – like many things it’s been a cacophony of stop-starts, delete-it-and-start-agains. But real inspriation seems to have hit recently, the words and thoughts are pouring out, so what better time to have another shot at it?
I’m a History graduate, fresh(ish) from the University of York (my blog title is in part a homage to its most famous little street) and the cosy embrace of Bristol, my home city. In an impulsive moment of excitedness last year I decided to move to Potsdam with my dad, and spend a year experiencing a new country, a new lifestyle, the perks of an AMAZING apartment and most importantly, to learn German and therefore have another skill to take with me into my eventual Masters (and hopefully PhD/glittering future academic career, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves). So, that’s where I am today, a few months in and continuing to settle.
These plans/experiences/whathaveyou are all part and parcel of this blog. It’s a time of undeniable change, that I think all graduates enter into. All graduates are also encouraged to set up blogs too, to ‘make them stand out’ on job applications (mind you, they are so widespread now I think they have become the rule rather than the exception). This blog, however, is not limited to making me more employable. It is a little bit of everything. Thoughts, observations, big ol’ rambles and personal manifestos, photos.. Discovery, I think. Discovery of myself at this particular crossroads, and just about everything else. Living, food, places, fashion, music, art, literature, sex, nothing is off limits. Think of this blog as a reflection of how my mind works. Shambolically.
Whilst this isn’t exactly in ‘Pillow Book’ format, my inspiration for this comes from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book (which I have been coveting for years) and a work inspired by it which remains my favourite book to date: Adrian Chambers’ This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn. It will be interesting – I’ve never attempted anything like it before outside of my own personal scribblings! So we shall see how we go – I’d put a disclaimer here saying ‘Maybe don’t read if you’re offended/under 18′ or whathaveyou, but to be honest I have no idea what I’ll come out with yet!
Do we ever?
From 'The Pillow Book' - well, who wouldn't appreciate Ewan McGregor covered with nothing but Japanese script?
