The majority of people that see this probably won’t bother to read it all, but maybe someone, somewhere will find it interesting and will possibly even relate to it. So here goes..

I’d like to think of myself as an average 17-year-old teenager, but not every teenager sits on their arse in front of two screens the majority of the day and night, doing little to contribute to.. well, anything. But then again, everybody is different. I very much like my own space.. I like being alone in my room, where there’s peace and quiet. I also dislike big social events, where it’s loud and there’s lots of people. I know where I’d rather be. I live in Southend-on-Sea, well the outskirts.. Shoeburyness. It’s in the south-east of England for anyone that had dreadful geography skills like me, or just wasn’t aware. It’s an alright town, there’s nice places.. but when you’ve been here for years and you’ve seen most of the things that there are to see, you soon get bored of it. It is nice when the sun bothers to poke it’s head out of the clouds though!

My primary school was/still is a few minutes walk from my house. It had it’s good times, but I’ve never really been one for education.. Secondary school was long and 90-minutes of most days were spent tediously traveling there and back on a grotty bus. The first few years were okay I suppose, but when you start to figure out who you are as a person, it gets harder. I’m a quiet and shy person anyway (though I may not seem it online), and I felt that I couldn’t really be myself around other people because I wouldn’t know how they’d react. I’m sure everyone knows how that feels. I took alot of time off (which was a mistake looking back) because I loathed the school environment so much.. but I caught up and completed my GCSE’s and got what I needed to get into college. College didn’t last long either.. I enrolled on a Radio course, but was only there for about a month! It was good, and I should have stayed, but my nerves got the better of me time and time again.. they still do.

So I was out of education and didn’t want to get a job (due to my nerves, laziness etc.), so I took the opportunity to watch more television (I’ve always been a big fan) and focus on my site iMediaMonkey.com (if you haven’t seen it before it’s a site dedicated to television news, recaps, galleries and a lot more). I set up the site in March 2009 as a blog with my opinions, but it soon evolved into how it is today. At the time I didn’t even imagine that I would be watching preview DVD’s and getting invited to press screenings.. I just did it because I wanted to write about something I love.. They are just bonuses! I don’t write about every story or show, just the ones that interest me, which thankfully interest other people! At the moment the site is non-profit and I have no intention of turning it into ‘ad city’ anytime soon. Since it has launched only I have written on the site, and I have been thrilled with the visitor numbers.

As I mentioned earlier, I am quite a shy and nervous person.. I like to keep myself to myself (which can be hard if I feel I need to let off steam), but it is nice to have someone to talk to when you really need to.. I don’t feel that I can fully trust anyone online unless we’re really close, although I can think of a few people which I’m glad to have around. The majority of people online are genuinely really nice and easy to talk to, but with the good comes the bad.. There are people that are nice to you one minute and not the next.. Not going to name names, but everyone could do without those.. Also, if it wasn’t for Twitter I don’t think I would have ‘come out’. I honestly know like.. 3 gay people in real life, but none of whom I felt I could talk to. On Twitter there are loads, and the ones that post their coming out stories on their blogs don’t know how much it helps. Currently my Mum, Dad and Sister know, but if anyone asks me I don’t intend to deny like I did before.. Why should I? There’s nothing wrong with it.

Email/MSN: jordan@imediamonkey.com