Hello people. My name is Steven Ritchie, if you are here you probably know me but I will introduce myself anyway. This is my blog about everything about my life here at university. For those who don’t know, I attend the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont.

A little bit about me, I like to read, sleep, eat, swim and do nothing. The last being my favourite, I have too much free time here at university since I don’t do homework and it all ends up being wasted. That is one of the reasons I am starting this blog, to fill some time with something productive >.<.

I swim on the varsity swim team here at UWO. Honestly, I am essentially the worst male swimmer on the team, but I am okay with that because I am trying to get better, heh. Anyway, the team itself does really well at meets, myself exempt. I swim for fun, to keep fit and simply to pass the time.

School…what a waste of time. I am in the BMOS program which many people mistake for a business degree. All it is, it “Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies”, essentially a dumbass useless degree. There are busines courses and aspects, but is nothing like a commerce degree elsewhere. Why am I here? Now, I’m not stupid, but I want to go to Ivey School of Business in third year. If I don’t get in I just wasted 2 years of my life and lots of my/parents money. I go to class usually, unless I’m sleeping but I don’t really ever pay attention. I study for my exams…for a couple hours the day before but seem to do decent for university marks. I would personally like better marks, but I will take what I can get with little effort.

University life is good so far, I like living in residence. I live in suite style, with 3 other guys and we share 2 bathrooms, a common room and a kitchen. Three of us are in Social Science with one in the Arts. Other than my neighbouring roommate, Asif, we all do nothing. Most of the time we are all just hanging around the room, running around the building and whatnot. My other two roommates are George and Peter. I will write about them in my daily life so you may get to know them.

Static Wear? Well I started static wear with initally with the intention of running a radio station, static radio, with a friend Alex Harris. The shirts were simply to raise the capital we needed. I started by making the shirts myself (silk-screening) but they turned out pretty trashy. I met Adam S, owner of Champion Print Studio and Friendly Skateboards who lived in the same town as me. He is now my main provider of the printed shirts. Anyway, after the flop with the first batch of shirts, I tried to simply make a clothing line. At first the designs were simple, and the logo creative I thought. I sold a couple…enough to break even. I then made Static Sudan shirts in Grade 11, which were for a charity concert held at my school. They expected a great turnout so I ordered 100 t-shirts. This ran up a HUGE tab seeing as I only sold 30ish T_T. Most of the “profits” were donated to charity, leaving me a few hundred dollars in the hole. This was a major set-back so I forgot about static for a while. Two years later, in the summer I thought about starting it up again. With the help of a few friends I got my Block Style design and got feedback on it. It took a while to get everything in order again and in October 2008, I finally ordered some new shirts. I had already seen great interest in these shirts. I am currently selling them at school, and back at home with the help of my sister, Julia. My friends attending other universities are my contacts for sales at these institutions.

I enjoy working on new designs and receive inspiration from simply clothing I see everyday. I browse the internet for ideas, look at photoshop work to see what would look good on clothing.

It is my hope to make this business semi-serious and try to get the shirts into a local shop or two, which I will attempt after the Christmas break.

A little more about me…I am also part of what you could call an International Film venture. I had a keen interest in 3D animation so I frequented a few forums and ending up meeting a friend Simen. He is from Norway and roughly the same age. After a year we had a team of 6, three from Norway, two in Australia and one in Canada, me . Anyway, we are currently working on a short animated film and although I greatly lack creative skills, I contribute basic models that I work on in my ample free time. You can check out our forum here although it is greatly lacking. Magical Pictures

I also have an interest in business and read books about finance, investing and gettin rich in essence. Well, in early November I attended a Rich Dad seminar where I met two new contacts, Walter and Mike. Both are established in life, older than I and more experienced. We all signed up for the upcoming 3-day training in December and plan to meet up again to discuss potential partnerships or co-operation in anything we may choose.

Overall I have a lot going on in my life, yet I still find lots of time to play video games, surf the net (StumbleUpon), listen to music and chat on MSN. I hope that was a thorough introduction of me, enjoy

P.S. I will try to post here everyday, although it will probably be boring, it is what I do each day.

*NOTE* This was written in November.