Weeelll... I've given up trying to get back to sleep and decided to blog. I suppose normal people get up voluntarily at 7am, but I've always tried to avoid it. When I worked at WHSmith I didn't have to get up until 9.10am... lazy sort of job, eh?

Anyway, the reason my sleep is so messed up is Rob. I thought I'd better blog about all this after all my strangely cryptic blog entries, although I'm not really sure what to say. Plus Daisy posted a slightly odd thing, which made me a bit sad, because I don't want my happiness to make anyone I know so well sad. Let's face it, if this can happen to me then there's hope for every geek stuck on their PC all day..!

Yes, that's right, I have irrational smiling disease. And it's all Rob's fault. :D

I've probably mentioned Emma on here before - she was one of my best friends (her and Ali) when I did my original archaeology degree. Well, Rob is her brother. I met him in passing a few times. He was at Ali's birthday gathering in December, tagging along with Emma and her boyfriend. But he was quiet, and sort of a big glowering slightly gothic person. ;)

I know he reads this, which makes writing this even more challenging! Heehee...

I can't remember exactly how things happened. We e-mailed each other a bit, trying to get Emma sorted out enough to meet up with us (that's me and Ali, obviously). Although we've always had good 'meeting up' intentions we've been pretty hopeless at it. The first e-mail I have from him is 16th March. Then, to make discussing meeting up better, we started sending messages via MSN. Since 29th May we've exchanged about 90,000 words via MSN (although that includes our names, so clearly that makes a lot of difference!).

Anyway, hopefully these measurements of our communication levels demonstrate one important thing: he's a geek too. Like me, he spends far too much time in his room on his PC. So what were the chances of us ending up where we are now, wherever that is? It's got to be a million to one (but it might just work), in the probably innaccurately quoted words of Terry Pratchett.

We haven't met up that much 'in real life', although we've been to Emma's a few times (where he lives), he's been here with Emma, we went to see Bulletproof Monk as a gang too, and he came with the horde when we saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he was round playing games with us on Saturday (as Mark mentioned). Plus he's lent me his spare PC (to play Star Wars Galaxies on (Brian can't cut it), which he's also lending me a copy of, and things keep not working properly. Which gives him reason to call round in a technical capacity. Anyone would think that was planned. :)

Without the internet we wouldn't be here, wherever here is. He even made his proposition via MSN. Which was probably a good thing for both of us, because I don't know what I would have done if he'd asked me in person. I still can't believe he asked at all! If you're not a geek you won't understand this, but hey. I'm nearly 24 and this has never happened before. I keep being really paranoid that when he comes round tonight (to install XP on Leon - the 'other' PC, I hope Brian's not too jealous) I'll be even shyer than usual. I'm completely terrified of what the future might hold, but I look forward to every text he sends me, every e-mail... when I log onto MSN and he's listed as being idle I feel sad... and there's the irrational smiling thing.

Sad, isn't it? :D

Maybe he'll blog about things, too, but I often think writing everything on here is a bit weird. I mean, I wasn't planning on telling that many people about my... he's not really a young man, heehee... :p Not yet, anyway. Not yet to the telling part, not the young man part. I'm not waiting for a chance to test my 'youth ray' on him or anything. I mean, I think the people I want to know all know. And anyone who reads this. So geeks get to know first. It's kind of appropriate. :)

I had enough trouble with my grandparents as it was! ;)