Him: What are you doing?
Me: Watching the sugar writhe.

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This is my 2000th blog post, or so the stats at Blogger tell me. I couldn't just waste it on the usual blather, could I?

I started blogging on the 1st of June, 2000. Check the archives. Actually, don't. My first post was ridiculous and stupid and contrived and self-conscious. In fact, the whole first week was a write-off.

I've had plenty of time to learn. Back then I was still masquerading under a personality - simply X - and the thing was still called "The World According To Carp". I have long since discarded internet pseudonyms to the point where, recently required to sign up for some message boards, I completely failed to think of a username more interesting than "Dee".

If this website, and blogging, has taught me anything, it's that the internet truly is the place to be yourself, as hard as you can, and that all the personas I assumed for so many years were only aspects of myself, never the whole truth.

Have I learned honesty? Pfft. What sort of Gemini do you take me for?

I was watching the sugar writhe, though.