The Life, Times, and Misadventures of Pietre

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I’m rubbish at updating this thing. Other than the occasional self-absorbed tumblr post or pouting self portrait, my internet presence has shrunk to the limitations of facebook (for networking and business) and hotmail (paranoid back ups of my dissertation with a self-addressed email every 30 seconds). I’ve been tempted to retort back to bebo, but then I realized I’m not a paedophile.

So yeah, it’s been a while. If you’re one of my friends, you’ll probably know, (or at least pretend to have listened to) what I’ve been up to lately. But, as recently mentioned by an acquaintance I hadn’t seen since school, ‘You’re a good person to stalk on the internet because you write funny blogs and do weird videos and stuff’. Well, yes, I do ‘stuff’, and the weird video bit is true, but ‘funny’ is kind of subjective. Still, I guess it’s better to be the weird funny *stuff* guy than the old friend from school who you facebook stalk because they’ve just given birth to another ugly baby resembling a screaming Winston Churchill by their 48 year old partner, or the one whose status updates reveal a severe mental illness, bi-polar like mood swings and an Eastenders-style back story.

I won’t make promises to keep this more up to date. Mainly because that would be a lie, and why lie? I save that for my three girlfriends, two boyfriends and the CV.

Just kidding; I would never fib on my CV.

The day after Valentines I gave up drinking. This coincided nicely with lent, and so I used that as a handy excuse; ‘Pete, want to go for a pint?’ ‘Nah mate, I’ve given up all social aspects of a healthy lifestyle’ ‘Freak’. A month later- the 13^th of March, marked my dissertation hand in date. Thus, the breaking of ‘lent’, and the worst hangover ever. I literally felt as if there was a child kicking my stomach whilst ramming a screwdriver into the side of my head. Moral of the story; never give up alcohol.

With the submission of my dissertation, I’ve pretty much marked the end of my academic journey. Sure, I’ve still got a feature length script to submit, and a 4000 word critical analysis, but the latter is practically a blog post (could just copy/paste this crap?) and the script is more ‘work’. In the sense that I’ll try and sell it once it’s done. It feels very odd to never have to do a piece of writing like the dissertation ever again (as far as I’m aware/unless I fail). I’ve been in education for over 17 years, without much of a gap, which is the majority of my life so far. What does the future hold? Who knows. Probably an early, booze-induced death whilst working as a male gigolo. A career with Maccy D’s perhaps? I’ve heard KFC is hiring.

Not that there’s anything wrong with working at a fast food chain, it’s just not for me. I’d snap, overdose on fried ‘meat’, and threaten a customer with a spatula, or flaming big mac or something.

Perhaps I’ll be lucky enough to have a writing, or producing career. LOL.

I guess the main thing is to make the most of now. It’ll only be a couple of months before my Bournemouth lease ends and I’ll no longer be able to chill on the beach (*watch hours of Jeremy Kyle*) with my friends here, chatting to girls (*having a Jeremy Kyle marathon, lads only*), and eating BBQ’d food every day (*undercooked ASDA price sausages to accompany Jeremy Kyle’s soothing tones, ahem*).

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Cheers :)