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Blah blah woof woof (I'm a dark angel fan!) - From: Pete Daw
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Saturday, 3rd July 2004 @ 16:30
An open letter, dated 3rd July 2004:
Tudds,
Way way way back, in 1991 to be precise, I graduated from Plymouth Poly, and was looking for work of a form that wouldn't be too strenuous, too immoral, and may pay back my graduate loan. (the graduating thing turned out to be addictive I would later discover - after all, there are so few occasions in life I get to walk down the aisle of a Cathedral, practically in drag). I had the good fortune to be taken on (after many years of working as a temp in their typing pool) by a company called Lloyds Bank, in a team of three other people (Sam K, Tudds, and da boss, Mark W).
Thirteen years later, and after the best part of a decade, I have the honour of getting to 'see' you again, Tudds, this time via the Web.
As I sit here, typing this, reflecting upon the person I once shared a desk with, and on every event that I know that's happened in his life, I'm proud to know you Tudds. I'm blown away and impressed like fuck by your openness, your honesty, your triumph in the face of adversity. And I respect you and love you all the more for it as these are the exact traits I grew to associate with you over a decade ago.
Okay, so I know that when you read the fact that I love you you're gonna cringe a little, and go "oh shit, a gay man tells me he loves me", but hey, I can say it and mean it in a non-sexual way and you can take it as a compliment I hope.
I'm a PhD student myself, but I consider you one of the most intelligent people I've ever met and had the pleasure to work alongside. (Your driving however, still scares me shitless thinking back on it even now)
I'm also a former IBMer, and I consider you one of the most moral, most principled, guys I've ever had the pleasure to work with. I believe that you are fundamentally incapable of taking an action that would harm another individual, because to do so would cause yourself pain. I say that as someone who observed you almost daily for probably more than half a decade.
I learnt a lot from you, despite being older than you. I enjoyed working with you, depite knowing that I frustrated the crap out of you so many times every single day through my own deficiencies.
I love your web site.
I acknowledge however, that it's not the web site, it's the person, it is you Tudor, who is Blody Excellent. Don't ever forget that. May your own self-image learn from the high regard, and Love, which other people hold for you.
I've survived many things in my own life, and I understand and respect the difficulties you've had and continue to have in your own. I know however, and I believe, becuase it is my perception (and as Paul Gibson would quote "Perception is reality") that irrespective of what is thrown at you, you will come through, a stronger, more resillient, more capable, and possibly more loving person - precisely because what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
I love your list of one hundred things. Equally, I love your tests. According to one I'm 73% compatible with you, even though I do recall that you used to keep your desk way too tidy for my liking.
I'm an apparently intelligent, liberal, disgustingly generous, seizure-inducingly boring spod according to Rum and Monkey,
and I'm proud to know you, and I love your web site which I've seen for the first time today, courtesy of WendyMoose.
Love what you're doing,
Keep it up, and know that you are loved.
Pete Daw, Ba (Hons) Housing Policy and Management, HND Computer Studies, Cert. Tenant Participation, MCIH
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