Ryan's Intro

Hello there!

My name’s Ryan. Well… not really, but it’s close enough.

I’m a student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. My friend Sam and I have known each other for about a year and a half now, and there’s a lot of things that happen to the two of us that many people find absolutely hilarious, tragic, or as is most often the case, a combination of the two.

Most of the time, these activities aren’t planned or thought out. In fact, most commonly, the best stories that we have occur in a matter of minutes. This is especially convenient considering that we seem to go through many of them in a relatively short period of time.

How did this come to be, though? What made the two of us decide to add blogging to the already very long list of activities that we indulge ourselves in?

Less than a week ago, Sam and I were out to dinner with two of our friends. Let’s call them Tess and Daryn. Tess is Sam’s friend from high school who hasn’t been around too much in the past year or so, since Sam transferred to UVA. Of course, the two of us having a mutual friend, we saw fit to swap various stories of her failures. After all, we both need a well-rounded stock of information if we’re going to blackmail her. Sam, in revenge, tried to tell Daryn stories about me.

After several stories were traded back and forth—most notably how I managed to punch myself in the face, and how Sam almost unintentionally forced a family to move out of their house—I jokingly suggested that we write a blog to chronicle our… “interesting” life.

We don’t create chaos, I swear. It just kind of… finds us.

Sort of.

Maybe we do some things to spur it along… You can be the judges yourselves.

Hence the name of our blog. For those who aren’t vocab nuts:

fre-ne-tic

[fruh-net-ik]

–adjective

frantic; frenzied

In other words, we thought that it was a perfect adjective to describe our life. Then, to take it one step further, we decided that our “adventures,” due to their nonsensical and frantic nature, shall be renamed “frenetics.”

As a bonus, the word choice also happens to reflect the fact that Sam and I often choose to blatantly disregard the rules of spelling and grammar when it suits a given conversation, despite the fact that we are both quite familiar with such rules and regulations.

As the weeks and months progress, and the two of us post more of our hijinx, you’ll get to hear about a lot of our exploits. Themes one might encounter include, but are not limited to: black eyes, possums, The Irish Play, fires, the Amish, The Lord of the Rings, traffic accidents, hiking, giving away baked goods out of the back of my car, and Sam’s Grandpa Sibo.

I mean… we’ve already got a list of ideas about a page long, so that’s good, right?

We’ll both be writing, and we’ll both be figuring out exactly how this “blog” thing works. The idea is you’ll find some enjoyment in it, and hopefully come back for more. Or you’ll just be guilted into it because you count yourself among our friends and family.

Either way, we hope you enjoy what’s to come!