The Usual Introductions

My name is Audrey. I'm a 23 year old reporter who decided she needed to write more for herself in her free time. A blog wasn't my first choice, seeing as I do not have internet at my apartment, but I'm thinking that I need to start trying to get back into some of my old hobbies (or discover new ones) as the new year approaches, and writing has always been a sort of release for me, so I might as well put it out for the world to read, right?

I don't know how often I will update. I was pretty sure I had a Blogspot account left over from college, but it seems not. Oh well, a fresh start can't hurt.

But I guess you might want to know more about me, assuming you've read this far.

I am a reporter in Texas. Yes, the newspaper kind, no, not the "twist everything you say to fit my liberal agenda" kind. I'm not even liberal. In fact, I don't know what I really am. Give me a topic, I'll share my thoughts, but I don't guarantee they have a lot of research behind them. 

I live in an apartment and rather dislike the area I've settled in for the last year-and-a-quarter. I am looking at relocating closer to a bigger city, like I grew up in, but I've only been relatively "on my own" in mid-size cities for the last five years, so it may be hard to make that leap to mixmasters and traffic jams. 

I'm an active Facebook user, StumbleUpon junkie when I get my laptop to WiFi, and I absolutely refuse to get involved with Pinterest. That is a site I can access from work, and I do NOT need that kind of distraction. The GIF blog Tumblrs I follow and, of course, Facebook, do that well enough for me.

I am a martial artist, I suppose. I was active in my college's judo club and joined an aikido group shortly after I graduated and started my first job. I don't think I'm particularly adept at either one, but it's something to do three times a week and gets me interacting socially -- probably the only thing that has kept me sane for so long.

I am also a Type 1 diabetic. I hate people confusing the different types of the disease because of the inarticulate media (oh the irony there), so I'm happy to explain the differences to you, if you are interested. I actually only came back to Blogspot here (or is it just Blogger now? I have no idea) because I was ferreting around for a diabetes blog to follow. Another new year's resolution: try again to get back on track checking my blood sugars. I tried last year and it was completely bust by May. 

I find myself too tired to do anything after work most of the time, and my weekends are either planned to oblivion or so empty I take them as the once-every-two-months opportunity to sleep in. But I've been feeling very unfulfilled lately, and think I need to get back to doing things somewhat constructive with my spare time. Growing up, they were mostly crafts. In college, I hung out with people or wasted hours on Facebook. Fatigue and lack of internet connection where I live have kind of sapped that life away from me, so all I seem to do now is work and piddle away on my phone (with a bout of cleaning up or cooking thrown in now and again to shake things up). I miss creating things, so I guess this is my attempt to get back at that.

I highly doubt anybody is reading any of this, so I guess that means I should feel even more free to post as myself only. Sort of liberating, I suppose.

It kind of bothers me that of eight of 11 paragraphs here started with "I," but seeing as the goal here is introduction of myself, it can slide. Just this once.