A bit about webmaster

My name is Gibi, I'm a 20-something year old paper pusher that likes to dwell within the depths of the internet and dabble in all sorts of topics. I started this website because I hope creating a judgement-free place of self-expression for myself will help me get better at it as well as grant me an interesting ongoing objective i could pursue (I've written about it in the First Pratfall Report if you want to know a bit more).

Since the topics on this site are going to mainly revolve around me and my thoughts on different topics, I think it would be nice to have a place to present myself and my interests. In the short text bellow I'm gonna list out a few things I do in my life and what I like about them - hope you'll enjoy :3

Social Dancing

Social dancing was a thing in my life that you could say 'just happened'. It all started in middle school when I got assigned 'artistic studies' (or whatever was it called) which was a 2 hours in a week when we would attend a worshop of our choosing - there were movie studies, graphical design, origami... but due to my poor luck, i got stuck between dance workshops and prepairing school decorations and if it wasn't for my Mom, I would be probably stuck cutting paper stars for 10 months straight.

During the workshops, it quickly turned out I had quite a flair for dancing - i caught up pretty fast all the choreographies and teh teacher was also quite pleased to see a boy in the croud (even if he was the only one). She really encouraged me to continue dancing after the course but I wasn't really into it... until the day I realized I missed dancing...

So I did a research of dance schools in my area and signed up for Collegiate Shag lessons, mainly because of how it looked very chaotic and wacky but also technical at the same time and I never looked back. A couple years ago I was forced to resign from regular dance trainings but I tried to show up on the dancefloor every couple of months when I would be able too. Recently I've been able to come back and it truly brings me joy and a sense of freedom to be able to do that once again.

Coffee

When I first started working in a small cafe, I thought liking coffee and liking to drink coffee are one and the same thing. One can only imagine my perplexity when after getting a job as a barista, 'fake it till you make it' style (I was really desperate for a job at that moment), my then boss presented me with an array of scales, brewers and coffe varietals i knew nothing about. It was that moment I learnt that there are other types of coffee than with or without milk.

It turned out the topic was actually really interesting - all the espressos and flat whites and pourovers and dialing things filled me with an unspoken satisfaction, especially when I got to work with people who actually knew what they were doing with the beans as my boss would also be considered a novice in the matter and would heavily rely on more experienced hires in the first few months of running the business.

I left that place after about 4 months because of univeristy, but when I did - I already had an aeropress and a hand grinder of my own and once I've returned behind the bar, I was that weird coffee person that knew a bit too much for a person in a chain cafe.

Though I still think that chain cafe was by far the best workplace I've ever had.