Well, here goes

So here I am. I'm in my early thirties and life has taken a bit of a detour.

Let me explain.

I am Paul. I am a nerd. So much of one in fact that I'm in the business of ensuring my kind are well represented in the future (by which I mean I'm a science teacher).
For the best part of a decade I was involved in research but it never really captivated me the way I hoped it would. What always excited me was teaching and it took me till I was 30, and had wasted a lot of my (and quite a few other peoples) time, to realise it.
Having said that at least having done it that way I was genuinely sure it was the right path for me.

Anyway, that's only part of the story.
Also in that last decade I crammed in a lot of other stuff.
The dominating one was contracting leukaemia. I'm sure over time I'll talk about this a lot as it has come to dominate my life.
The long term aspects of the treatments I received for it are actually why my life is currently on this detour. My lungs are failing and I am now in the process of waiting for the go ahead for a lung transplant.

So I am at home tethered to an oxygen concentrator which allows me to breathe better than I can manage on my own. I can go out but this is very much defined by how much energy I have, which is not much.

So, it occurred to me that when I was ill originally with leukaemia I wasn't really capable of taking stock of things or recording them for posterity so just got on with things and then tried to write about it later. While moderately successful I feel that the blogosphere might just be the way for me to get all the things that I think about off my chest.

If other people read it then all the better. I am a relentless show off anyway so even though I really am only doing this for my own amusement I do hope someone else will get something out of it.