About jefke.com
I bet you have some questions.
I bet you are either a Jefke or you know someone that is. If you are a jefke, (or know one) take a look at jefke.org (err, i’m working on it). Jefke.com has become my personal site, a site for me to do what i do best–complain about things. Jefke.org is for all jefkes, hopefully without the complaining…but we’ll see.
I bet you’re curious as to why this site is in English and not Dutch or Flemish.
Who the hell takes the time to register “jefke.com” anyway?
Well, my name is Jeffrey, and I’m American (please, no jokes). I studied Philosophy in college and through a strange twist of events, I ended up at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, for my masters (Licentiates’s). (i can prove it!) See!
Once there, I did my best to keep to myself and not bother any Belgians, god knows we hear enough about “how the whole world hates loud, obnoxious Americans”, all talking about WWII and how we saved everything”. But that damn beer, oh it was a Pintje here and a pintje there at first, then Grand Cru, then Duvel, that wonderful– cursed– beer changed everything. First I was just going to pubs, and minding my own business…. next thing I knew, I was getting drunk all the time, and people around me were getting drunk all the time too.
They all knew English (like good Belgians do) and since they could mark me as a US-student-abroad from a Kilometer away (get it, I didn’t say mile–oh nevermind) they gave me and my friends a good amount of shit for a while, but then we discovered, that if we just kept coming back for more, they started to be nicer. After about 3 or 4 months, they were inviting us to their parties, their houses, it was incredible.
Next thing I knew I had network of drinking buddies, and after several pleas (ok begging), I was offered a job a typical “brown pub” washing the floors, cleaning the vomit out of the toilets and cooking the soup and pasta. Very soon after that everyone started calling me Jefke.
See, I’m not very tall, and people have always called me “jeffy” or “little jeff”, so I guess the Jefke thing never surprised me. Upon leaving Belgium, (a decision that still haunts me, to this day) I retained the Jefke, because, well, it’s a hell of a lot cooler than “jeffy”.
I looked for the domain and it was open, so I took it. Sorry. If you’re a jefke and you wanted it, maybe we can work something out. Once upon a time I knew a fair about of Dutch but it’s gone now. I’m totally willing to put up a pages in Dutch if anyone wants to supply content.
Update 10/17/03: 03/29/06
Well jefke.com has grown and changed in many many ways. Back when i started all this, it was just a “personal website”. Since then the whole blogging thing has happened and well, who am i to fight that. so now jefke.com is a blog with some extra crap duct taped to it. It’s been a long strange trip, and i thank all my regular readers (all 3 of you) for your support. I hope to spend some more time working on the non blog related areas of the site, perhaps some new writings and ideally get some new recordings up…why? because i’m egotistical. that’s why.
In the spirit of bloggin, i will post up some personal info…ok you ready…?
Location: Maryland USA, a small state near washington DC. Last i heard this state has the highest teenage pregnancy and Sexually transmitted diseases. Thankfully i stay indoors a lot so i should be safe.
Age: 30 32 34 going on 62 77
Occupation: Consultant
Marital status: Married
Kids: 1, referred to as the captain
Pets: 3 Cats 1, dog
Hobbies: Ha, that’s funny. fuck you
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