As I have already mentioned, my handle is Jacky, and this is me in a nutshell. I'm an average 25 year old guy. My schtick is that I'm one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, at least until you prove that you aren't worth being nice to. There's nothing extraordinary about me. I have no exciting tales of heroism that I may regale you with. I love writing, but can admit my writing style isn't particuraly interesting and I'll never be that great of a writer. I'm not a profound individual, although on occasion I try to pretend that I am. I've said and done many stupid things in the past. I've made more than my fair share of mistakes and regretably, more often than not, failed to learn from them. I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't feel the need to constantly be around other people to validate my existance. I like to believe that what goes around, comes around - even if takes awhile. I dislike confrontation. I dislike people who ridicule other people in a sad attempt to feel good about themselves. It's not beyond me to be a major prick if I feel strongly about something. I like 'nerdy' things and am not afraid to admit it. My favorite thing to eat is a meatball sub from Mr. Sub. My favorite colour is grey. I often get upset about the state of society. I probably curse a bit too much. I have two cats. I happen to think that hip hop is about the worst type of "music" ever to be conceived.

Of course there's more, but I'm sure you've read enough. Now, in order to address the question of why this website exists, I'll have to dig up my history book for a bit. In 2000 I created a website that was, in internet lingo, an everything/nothing site. Video games, movie reviews and a heavy slant towards the oversaturated 80's pop-culture niche dominated the site. While I thoroughly enjoyed creating, maintaining and writing for that site, nearing the end of its run I was seriously lacking any ambition to write. It seemed that I was always trying to write for an audience, trying too hard to be witty when I'm really not that witty of a person, and my writing lost all personality as a result. Personal and work issues were also mounting, and sitting down to write no longer felt natural or enjoyable. It started to feel like a chore. Futhermore, after six years of running the site, I felt that the nature of my past articles had kind of painted me into a corner. I felt bad for posting articles of a serious or personal nature, because they didn't fit in with the rest of the articles on the site. So, I eventually came to the wise and probably long overdue decision to put the old girl to rest. Then I summarily took a break from the internet on the whole.

However, I wasn't done writing. I need a place where I can air out the random things that pop into my head. A place where it doesn't matter how frequently I update or how long an update is expected to be. A place where an article about video games can naturally follow an opionated piece on the effect of global warming. A place where it doesn't matter if one person reads or a million. A place where I'm not writing for an audience, I'm not writing for someone else, I'm writing for one person... me. This is my blog, if you will... as if the internet needed another one. At any rate, and you'll notice I use that term a lot for some reason, I have no idea what's going to pop up in this space in the upcoming months and years, but I do know I'm excited about it.

Anyways, that does it for the introduction. Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll return as I begin writing for Finding I.

Yours,
-Jacky-