*shakes hand*, so nice to meet you,

I honestly don't know what i ought to put up here.

I'm Joram, i study musicology. I like music as well, i frequently make attempts to play electric guitar and saxophone. I don't love my guitar, i love playing it and really like the thing itself to some degree, but it's not as if i'd give up playing or writing if my guitar got stolen; i guess it's replaceable, so to speak.

At this particular moment i'm listening to Da Funk/Daftendirekt by Daft Punk, from their live album Alive 2007, which is really good in my opinion. And i just discovered that pressing ctrl+3 gives you a mini-screen in windows media player which stays on the foreground at all times, very convenient innit?

I like the tiny things in life. That's quite a cliché that i'm tossing around here, but i reckon it's one of the few things that i can honestly say about myself. Yesterday i arrived at my flat and there was a woman waiting for the elevator, but i had to put my bike away first. When i came back, the elevator was waiting for me, so the dear woman must've pressed the down button as she stepped out, which really cheered me up for some reason.

My own blog is a place where i dump any ideas that might pop up for stories, and it's the occasional spot to shamelessly promote my own views. On certain issues. I like to belief that i've developed a bit of an idiosyncratic personal writing style, but then again i'm in all likelihood not literate enough to be able to say that.

I went through a number of years that involved a lot of teenage angst and the conviction that, given the "circumstances" i was under, i had all the right to be depressed and/or sad. Until about a year ago, when i started to belief happiness wasn't really something that you acquire or "get" through something or someone, but more that it's a very balanced state of mind that wants to be happy in the first place. Now that i look back on it, i do realise that it was rather pathetic to be sad and complaining, but not really wanting to change the situation.

And i'm happy now :]