| about me: Jipster i live in a
hole and I eat a lot of cabbage.
drat... you mean seriously? ok... thirty something
wossit from London, I have existed for most of my life and am hoping one
day to exist some more. A noted under achiever, I basically do
what I want and how I want and I doubt now that I'll ever be able to
change that. A one time student of media, passing with
distinction, I was encouraged to seriously consider a career as an
editor, and so I found myself after leaving education becoming a tape
archivist, passing up the chance to go to university and doss about for
four years. I have worked for British Airways film archive, Warner
Bros Cinemas as a manager, a PA to a number one selling record producer,
library bod and gopher for the ITV Sport and now I am working for a
company that works in exhibitions and publishing, and its fair to say
I've never had a boring job.
 During my life I have done a few things
- like claim the
title of Milk for Sport Superkid in 1986 - and I went on from that fantastic
achievement to win a few more trophy's and medals (now boxed up and
titled 'past life') mainly for hockey and my first love, sporting wise,
football (soccer if you're over 'that' side). I used to take sport
very seriously, well, I used to turn up for training and only whine 'a
little' but I at least turned up and in 1994 I scored 18 goals in one season,
in
what became a run of three seasons where my team won promotion from the
very bottom league all the way up to the top league. A top league where we kinda
faltered and immediately were relegated back down, but it was a wild
ride while it lasted! At the peak of my playing days I played my
football for Brentford FC, and good times were had. I retired in
1998 after 14 seasons due to injury woes.
It may be a coincidence but my retirement from sport
came at a time when I first found myself online, and discovering the
wonderful world of web. I designed my first website in 1999 but
before that I got involved in what would be my first 'online fandom' - a group
of people online who are as mad on something as I am. I am a huge
fan of the 80's hit show 'The A-Team' and for five years I looked after
a large part of that fandom online, even appearing on tv and being given the title
'the UK's #1 fan'. After failing to realise a dream in reuniting
the A-Team for what I had hoped would be a fantastic fan event, I
quietly slipped away from that fandom with me tail between me legs and
moved on. Since then I have continued to make websites, and even
turned my hobby into a job, as I now boost the hilarious job title of
'Online Projects Executive' in my current employment. My online
activities now include looking after the fans of the Woolvett brothers,
two actors I have followed for a while now and I'm enjoying that fandom
a lot - as moderator of
gmwmb and my own tribute to their ongoing careers at
woolvettbros.com.
I am now concentrating my efforts on writing, after a
teacher at school more or less told me I sucked, I have since realised that maybe I took her words too much to heart and
a few years ago began
writing again. Fanfiction gave me a chance to rediscover my love
of writing, and many fanfics later I am now writing original stuff that
I hope one day will be the whole purpose of this website, and my very
existence - no pressure then.
watch this space
(and all the words will go all blurry after a while)
Jipster
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