I stumbled across this little meme in a corner of the internet and I’d be interested to see how you answer the questions 
1. How long have you been blogging?
Only since November 2009, but it was more of a return to blogging. I had my first actual blog in 2004/5 for about 2 years but then took a very long break.
2. What made you start?
I just wanted a place to vent and put my words on “paper” I suppose – it’s hard to keep track of my life because it goes so quickly so it’ll be nice to look back and see what I’ve actually done.
3. Who inspired you?
One of my friends always says it’s good to write things down and get your thoughts out, so I decided to do it in the form of a blog and so far it feels good to let it all out!
4. About how many hours a week would you estimate you spend on your blog?
About an hour a day messing around with coding and plugins, but writing can take up another hour.
5. What kind of experience or background do you have with writing?
I don’t have any kind of writing experience – I was always good at English in school and I enjoy writing, but that’s about it.
6. Talk about how you come up with blog topics. Where do you get your ideas?
I read other blogs and see what they’re about, or I look at hot topics at that moment and see if I can make a post about it. Sometimes I might just see a word and it gets me thinking. Other times I go on what has happened to me during the day. I don’t blog if I don’t get the feeling, “I could write about this” because otherwise it’s pointless.
7. What or who inspires you and your blog?
My friends, my family, university… all kinds of things depending on the topic.
8. Where and/or how do your brainstorming for your blog?
I don’t normally brainstorm, I just go from what’s in my head at the time really.
9. Do you have any blogging rules or guidelines you follow?
I rarely mention friends names for privacy reasons, and I try to stay away from talking about what/where I study purely because I don’t want people from university finding me. Other than that, anything goes really.
10. Is there anything you will not blog about?
As above, I won’t mention outright where or what I study – I’ll drop hints but I’ll never mention the name in full because anyone can use a search engine.
11. Do you have any sort of a publishing schedule in terms of day of week or topic?
I’ve thought about having a schedule of things to post a day (e.g. TMI Thursday), but I’ve never got round to it – and I know I wouldn’t stick to it!
After my slightly deep and meaningful post a couple of days ago I wanted to lighten the mood! At the time it felt good getting it all out and writing my feelings down, but now I’m slightly embarrassed – I think it might take a while before I open my heart like that again
So, week one of university is officially over with only, oh, 11 more to go! I was completely ready to get back into the swing of things when I was stood waiting for my train on Tuesday. I was ready to start some fresh modules, and even more ready for the tiny amount of hours I am actually in university for – it totals the grand amount of 6 hours. That’s not even a working day – sweet! Tuesday I get there about 5 minutes late because my damn taxi was late (grrrr!), but I when I got there the class were waiting for the room to empty anyway. This would be OK had we been waiting outside the correct room – on the other end of the hall my lecturer was waiting patiently wondering why there were only 2 people attending that day.
MODULE I : Marketing – I love marketing, it makes me giddy inside. The lecturer had clearly taken double the dosage of giddy-ness for breakfast because she was crazy – she wouldn’t sit still and didn’t seem to have any idea what she was doing there. We asked about our exam and she knew nothing about it, or what it entailed. She gave us a brief introduction of the course and what reading we have to do, but I didn’t learn a single thing – nada. But I was fine with that – first weeks are never that intense. Next week we’re delving head first into segmentation and marketing planning so it should pick up speed then 
When I got home at about 2pm I immediately turned my thoughts to Wednesday – for two weeks only we have a 7 hour lecture each Wednesday. You know how I was saying I was fine with the small amount of hours? I will be in 2 weeks time.
MODULE II : Responsible Management – this is all about alcohol and being a responsible license holder. We have the option of taking an alcohol license exam but you have to pay – would someone please explain what my tuition fees are actually paying for please, because I don’t know. Anyway, many of us survived until the end at 7pm and many of us died halfway through – I was part of the latter group. By 4pm I was in my taxi heading to the train station. I was not going to be read at for 7 hours when I can do that at home – who wants some boring man droning on and reading the Licensing Act of 2003 word for word. And it is huge – think of the size of your little finger in pages and you’ll get the idea. I’ll deal with you later.
And today I was ten minutes late because I got lost and had no idea where we were. I walked into an empty classroom, already late, and started getting flustered. This particular class was taught my a lecturer who doesn’t take any shit, none. If I went past ten minutes I’d be told to quietly leave and not come back. Cue me texting my classmates frantically in the hall asking where we were. At 13.08 I finally got a text back so off I went to class – I walked in expecting all hell to break loose but he was amazingly calm and politely asked me to take a seat – OK then…
MODULE III – Entrepreneurship – We played games for 2 hours, what more can I even say?
How has your week been?
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