Thursday, June 19, 2008
GO SHORTY, IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
Five years ago tonight I came back from a run in Duke Forest and sat down at my computer. After about 30 minutes of surfing porn on dial-up I decided I really wanted to write more and post it to the web for anyone to find it. This Is Depression was born.
In June of 2003 I was fresh out of college with a degree in Screenwriting and no job prospects whatsoever. I had applied at seemingly every company in the Raleigh/Durham area but to no avail; I was literally thinking about applying to Burger King just to be able to claim a paycheck from somewhere. Needless to say, things were not going well. I was living at home with my dad and trying my best to kick the 12-beers-per-evening habit I'd maintained for the previous four years in college.
Eventually, I found a job, saved up some money, and by Fall I had moved to NYC. Now, five years on, many things are different, and many things are the same. But I honestly look back fondly on that first summer, when I'd write TID posts in my sunny office on Six Forks in North Raleigh, or when I'd zoom home on I-40 from work with a fresh idea in my head that just had to go on this site. I was 22, I was writing whatever came to my head, life was great.
So thanks, TID, for five years of being a creative outlet for me when I was too lazy to craft anything else. Thanks so much also to the few but very cherished readers out there who have written me emails in the past saying how much they enjoyed the site. I really am truly humbled. If you're somewhat new to TID, all I ask is that you bear with me; I'll keep on with it--I know I've been lazy recently. Expect big things soon enough and if you haven't ever looked through some of that stuff from '03-'05, give it a shot. Some of it might make you laugh, some of it might bore you, but know without a doubt that what you're reading is an honest reflection of my life during those years where I wasn't sure of anything.
Thank you all so much.
Love,
Paul Nair
Five years ago tonight I came back from a run in Duke Forest and sat down at my computer. After about 30 minutes of surfing porn on dial-up I decided I really wanted to write more and post it to the web for anyone to find it. This Is Depression was born.
In June of 2003 I was fresh out of college with a degree in Screenwriting and no job prospects whatsoever. I had applied at seemingly every company in the Raleigh/Durham area but to no avail; I was literally thinking about applying to Burger King just to be able to claim a paycheck from somewhere. Needless to say, things were not going well. I was living at home with my dad and trying my best to kick the 12-beers-per-evening habit I'd maintained for the previous four years in college.
Eventually, I found a job, saved up some money, and by Fall I had moved to NYC. Now, five years on, many things are different, and many things are the same. But I honestly look back fondly on that first summer, when I'd write TID posts in my sunny office on Six Forks in North Raleigh, or when I'd zoom home on I-40 from work with a fresh idea in my head that just had to go on this site. I was 22, I was writing whatever came to my head, life was great.
So thanks, TID, for five years of being a creative outlet for me when I was too lazy to craft anything else. Thanks so much also to the few but very cherished readers out there who have written me emails in the past saying how much they enjoyed the site. I really am truly humbled. If you're somewhat new to TID, all I ask is that you bear with me; I'll keep on with it--I know I've been lazy recently. Expect big things soon enough and if you haven't ever looked through some of that stuff from '03-'05, give it a shot. Some of it might make you laugh, some of it might bore you, but know without a doubt that what you're reading is an honest reflection of my life during those years where I wasn't sure of anything.
Thank you all so much.
Love,
Paul Nair
