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All told, there isn't much to say about me. I was born and am. I live where I live. Go to school. Go to work. Write a little, read a lot, or read a little, write a lot, depending. Have a fair few friends. Spend most of my life on the internet. Sometimes actually get out of the house. See a handful of movies in theater every year.
I'm something of an enthusiastic academic these days. I love researching and writing papers. I think this is because I spent far too much of my high school career screwing off and failing classes and discovered almost too late that I actually enjoy learning. Unless this learning happens to relate to mathematics, at which I am hopeless. One of my friends recently pointed out that I have no hobby that is not in some way intellectual, but I don't really consider my pursuits intellectual or in any way unusual. ...Doesn't everyone fight their families for control of the television so that they can watch Jeopardy?
My ideal job would be as researcher of everything archaic that went into the massive body of work written by JRR Tolkien, but realistically I have settled for High School English teacher, or maybe University Professor. The thought of teaching high schoolers is in no way terrifying to me. High schoolers I can handle, small children, however, are a completely different story. I have no patience for them. I also still retain slim hopes of someday walking into a bookstore and finding a book with my name printed on the cover. I fantasize about being an author (maybe even being an author whose books people enjoy), but I thought that I would find a job that could feed me first and work on the novels in between.
My idea of a hot night out is a trip to Barnes & Nobles to puruse the shelves, and maybe snagging a slice of cheesecake at the cafe. This, perhaps, is the reason that I make such a terrible significant other. Really, I'm quite hopeless. Dating bores me, and I do a pitiful job of it. Generally, I know exactly what should be expected of me, and completely ignore everything that I should be doing to retain a partner's interest. If I ever get married, no doubt the snowball has survived hell and you may keep an eye open for the flying pigs.
I am getting more youthful the older I become. Really, the things that keep me happy these days are far too juvenille to be believed. I collect action figures. Primarily from Lord of the Rings, but Harry Potter and a few other things work too. Toys are such fascinating things that I wonder why I had ever forgotten about them.
I do not watch a great deal of television. I've always made up better stories in my head than anything that I can watch on tv. I think that it's quite disgusting how mesmerized people get by poor programing, and how some people will watch absolutely anything just to be watching tv. My younger brother is a case in point, and occaisonally I discover my parents watching the Spanish channel when there is "nothing else on", though no one in my family speaks hardly a word of Spanish (my only sibbling and I opted to learn Japanese instead, my mother worked her way through French, and my father maintains only a minimul grasp of the Spanish he took in High School). My television viewing is limited to three shows: Jeopardy, Lost, and Survivor. Strange and ecclectic, favorites, aren't they? Jeopardy and Survivor are mental stimulation, I think. I am always impressed by Jeopardy contestants, and I enjoy the psychology, strategy and endurance to Survivor, it being the only reality tv that I'll put up with. Lost is simply because I like attempting to puzzle out a good mystery, and I am anxiously awaiting the discovery of the real plot behind it all.

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