This lifestyle
I like the blogging life, I mean, just chatting about life and stuff, and listening to Jack Humphrey from Blog Success, interview Heather Armstrong, and I am learning more and more, and I realise it is not so different to radio in the sense of relateability,people want to know about your life, what is going on, even day to day stuff.
How deep do you let them in? Good question- I guess what we are comfortable with really, but some bloggers go deep, really deep, perhaps this conterbalances some of the shallowness we see every day- dunno.
Bet cyberstalking wont be long either.
By the way, having a stalker is not fun, I had one once, when I was working at Capital- her name was Gema, and yes, that is spelled correctly, and she spelled my name Nill.
"Dear Nill"
I am moving closer to be with you, our baby is due in March.
Wha…. I was drunk, it meant nothing. Seriously though, I had never met her- I know I am impressive girls, but that would be a feat!
So the letters continued until I had built up a collection of about 30, and I decided to get my secretary to do something about it. Well ok, it was my mum, but she didn’t know that.
So, I got one of my promotional photocards, and got my mum to type on the back something along the lines of… "Neil does not answer any of his own mail", which of course was not true, but it did the trick.
For a week.
Then the letters started again, declaring undying love for me, and our immaculately concieved baby.
Then she turned up at a nightclub gig I was doing.
It could have been something out of a Steven King movie. Nightclub. Rainy night. She was standing outside in the rain, looking bedraggled and miserable, staring.
So, like a fool, I said to the doorman, who I got on really well with- Let her in.
Mistake.
I was there with my girlfriend at the time, and she came up to her at her table, slammed her drink down on the table and said "You’re with my boyfriend you bitch!"
AND I GOT TOLD OFF BY MY GIRLFRIEND! GET THAT! WOMEN!
Oh, and stalkers never look like hot models. Ever. Not ever. Shame, but just the way it is. Still you cant have it all.
But anyway, being paid for chatting about life, and being able to spend more time with my favourite people, that’s a price worth paying for the odd stalker.
And by the way Gema, I’m just not into you. Sorry.
Lots of Love
Nill

