My opinion about tattoos has changed a lot over the years. I’ve gone from not liking them, to not minding them, to liking them on other people, to wanting one of my own… and now, to being madly in love with my new tat and wanting more in the future. I got my “name” in [...]

I seem to have completely lost my ability to do anything without it feeling like an enormous chore. Even when I decided I was going to write this post I just signed into WordPress, wrote the title, and then logged out and faffed about on Twitter for ten thousand hours. This is what my bedroom [...]

I’ve started looking for love. Dating. Actually, actively looking for someone instead of sitting around waiting for someone to come to me. And you know what? It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. It all started a couple of weeks ago, when I heard about an iPhone app called Grindr. It’s “a geosocial [...]

You know what? I think it’s impossible to get through New Year’s Eve without at least stopping for a few minutes to think about the Old Year — the one that’s on its way out, I mean. And, at the start of a new decade, I’ve found myself looking much further back than that. I [...]

I’ve been at university for nearly two weeks now, so I thought I’d check in and let you know how I’ve been getting on. Getting here turned out to be a complete nightmare — a couple of weeks before I was due to move, MDX e-mailed to let me know they’d run out of space [...]

It’s been a long time coming — thanks in no small part to the absent-minded people at Bedford College — but I finally got the e-mail confirming my university place today! Congratulations! Your place at Middlesex University (M80) to study Television Production (P311) has been confirmed. Hooray! Now I have to start panicking all over [...]

Last week, I was searching for my name on a domain checker (as you do), and was surprised to find there were only two “mikelees” that hadn’t been registered. Of course, like any self-respecting geek would, I grabbed one straight away… then realised I didn’t actually need a new domain, and felt a bit silly. [...]