Well not much to say about me really. My only outstanding achievement was that I visited the deepest part of the world’s ocean’s - Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench (7 miles beneath the ocean’s surface) - but just once and it was only for 20 minutes.
I’m a 22-year-old gal working for my graphic design/digital pre-press degree at a local community college here in Kansas City, Missouri. I haven’t decided quite yet if I’m going to go on to a larger college or university afterwards. I’ve lived in KC since I was fourteen. Before then I was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. I live with my parents and four cats. Oh, and a couple of bettas too.
I’m mostly Norweigen on my father’s side. I’m not sure about the family on my mother’s side as she was adopted (although I have some theories about that that sheds doubt). I’m guessing something Celtish, but it’s just a guess.
My areas of expertise are George Orwell and first century Rome (hence my name). I’ve been a self-professed unofficial Orwell scholar since I was fifteen. I’ve been interested in first century Rome for about three years now, and even have a few coins. I’m partial to my circa 41 AD Emperor Claudius coin.
I love movies, my favorite being “The Elephant Man” and my favorite actor being Anthony Hopkins. I’m also quite fond of the movie “Beetlejuice”, a favorite since I was six years of age.
I also like reading. Besides Orwell, I also like reading Stephen King, trivia/encyclopedia type books, and biographies (biographies of entertainers are my favorites but I don’t limit myself).
I don’t watch much TV, but the stuff I watch is usually limited to the re-runs of my favorite shows. I’m quite fond of “Law & Order: SVU”, “The Simpsons”, and “Futurama”. And I know more about the show “Roseanne” than a sane person should.
I’m not a big foodie or alcohol buff, but I do like my tea. Sometimes I like green tea more than black, and sometimes black more than green. Earl Green tea is my favorite type of green and any of the “morning/breakfast” type teas are my favorite of the black variety. I like my tea strong. No sugar.
Was this in 1960, by any chance?
Besides firearms, beer, and lots of people dying quickly being in the same sentence what really scares me is that I’m in the Pittsburgh area also.
Just want to wish you luck in finding a job in another part of the country!
Bolding is my doing
Kinda? From the last picture I saw posted of you here, he looks just like you. Or vice versa.
I’m a 29 (no, honestly) year old living in Danbury, Connecticut. I work in Manhattan as a project manager for a bank I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of. My background is pretty diverse, but has been geared towards IT in some way for the last seven years. I’m fairly proud of the fact that I’ve established a very respectable career for myself, in spite of the fact that I don’t have any college education. I’m very much a workaholic, and if it weren’t for my long commute, I’d probably spend about 4 more hours in the office each day.
I have 3 children from my first marriage, all of whom live with their father and his fiancee. They are the apples of my eye, and the biggest source of pride in my life. They are growing into very fine children, all three.
I’m an aspiring writer. I have started about 200 novels, and finished approximately zero, but I do have one completed short story of which I’m exceedingly proud, and has received very, very good feedback from both objective and subjective parties. I also write poetry, in copious amounts, and find it to be the best form of “creativity dumping” I can come up with. If there is idle creativity in my brain, it will probably exhaust itself through twenty pages of haiku. I am currently trying to learn to play the guitar, and while I have definitely made some very good progress, I’m starting to wonder if I have the talent that I need. I’m sticking with it though, and find practicing to be a great way to zone out at the end of a long day.
I have very strange “obsessions”. I love paper, in just about every form. I actually tend to just buy paper, with every intent of doing something creative with it, only to have it accumulate like a very odd collection. I also have a general love of all things stationery related. Pens, pencils, notebooks, etc. I love them all.
And finally, I’m incurably forgiving and relatively stress-free. While there are moments and circumstances in my life that I wish were different, I very, very rarely get stressed out anymore, and I have just about every confidence that everything in my life will eventually go well. I forgive the transgressions (some very major ones) of the people who are close to me, and come as close to forgetting as is humanly possible. I’m also horrendously scatterbrained, and am often pointed to as evidence that insanity might be confused for intelligence. My main obstacle is loneliness; my commute obliterates my chances of doing anything in the evenings after work, which makes my weekends highly prized time for doing anything I couldn’t get done during the week, so socializing is a difficult thing to achieve.
And, that’s all I can think of at the moment.
Hey, Snarky, your link doesn’t work for me–I just get the login page. Love the username. Oh yeah, and…
I-L-L!
Unfortunately, part of the big legal employment agreement we all have to sign says that we won’t reveal which company we work for over the internets. It makes sense, in a way, as it avoids our having to put disclaimers on everything to make it clear that we’re not representing the company in any way.
Rufus Xavier (Posting 43)
Yes it was in 1960 - but regrettably only for 20 minutes.
I’m 27 and I live with my husband and my two terrible kitties.
I’m a law student at OSU, and I live over here in Dayton, OH. That means that I have to drive an hour to school everyday, which is not fun. My undergrad degree is from Ball State and it’s English.
I have sooooo many hobbies. Stained glass, quilting, gardening, cross stitching, reading, writing, jogging, playing computer games, cooking…a new one I picked up not too long ago is putting together model cars. Haven’t got too far along with that one.
My family is from England, Scotland and Ireland. Mostly English. I went to England over the summer, and enjoyed it. I am allergic to mosquito bites and it was nice not to have to put my OFF armor on every time I stepped out of doors.
I’m a Taurus, not that it matters. I don’t have a newer picture online that I can give out, sorry.
I named myself after Category 6 network cable. Most commonly referred to by us geeky types as ‘cat six’.
I always make sure to do the beer after the firearms are all put away in safe locations and not to be touched, and although I like ‘movies about lots of people dying quickly’, I’ve got no designs on ever killing anyone. I’m mostly harmless. Unless you happen to be a spider. I hate spiders.
Thanks. I like Pittsburgh well enough, but after all these years I need a change of scenery.
I’m 34 years old, the mother of a 13 year old girl and an 8 year old boy. I recently got free of an abusive nine year long marriage, and am very happily involved with a man 20 years older than myself. (Lotta "year"s in that paragraph.) I also have two male tabby cats.
I was born in Ft. Lauderdale and have lived in Florida all my life. I’m still not used to the heat! My mom and Grandma both live about fifty miles from me, which seems about right. I love them both very much, though they drive me nuts. My brother lives here in town, but doesn’t get in touch very often.
I’m agnostic with a strong leaning towards atheism. I was a vegetarian for about two years, but have recently started to eat meat again in an effort to gain weight. I feel guilty, but I must admit it’s a lot easier to eat like everyone else. I smoked for ten years, quit for about five, and now have a cigarette every once in a while. I rarely drink and have a strong aversion to alcoholics.
I read as much as I possibly can. I like horror and children’s books most, romance and sci-fi least, but I’ll pick up just about anything. I’m not nearly as educated or intellectual as many other Dopers seem to be. (I think it makes me more approachable!) 
Spelling and proofreading are the things I do well. When it comes to computers, I can hardly tell the thing on the floor from the part that you look at.
I gave up TV about six months ago and haven’t missed it, though I’ll regret it when American Idol starts again. I don’t like to listen to the radio unless I’m allowed to change the station every four seconds, so I generally listen to audiobooks. I also don’t take the newspaper, so I miss out on the news unless it’s being talked about on the Dope, and I Dope only at work because I have no computer. Sometimes I think noise bothers me more than it bothers other people.
I have no sense of smell.
I drive a Saturn and never wash it.
I think that’s about all I can come up with right now!
I am a 25 year old female and new Doper. I work for a commercial (NOT residential!) real estate firm in NY’s Capital Region. Note: For those of you not good at geography, NY’s capital is Albany, not New York City.
I’m a reformed geek with a background in engineering. I have a BS and an MEng both in Industrial Engineering from RPI, but I saw the error of my ways and changed careers quite quickly after I started working.
My birthday’s the same as Hunter Hawk’s (Dec. 22), and I find that I meet an incredible number of people with the same birthday. Strange.
I have a long-distance sometimes kinda-relationship thing. Long story, but he’s a great guy. But if any of you good looking guy Dopers are in the area and want to get together…
No pictures of me online right now. 
I’m a 41-year-old single, straight white guy, the middle of three children. Was born in Cambridge, Mass., and grew up in D.C. (33rd Street N.W. between N and Prospect). I have two sisters, both married with children. I attended a toney prep school, where my classmates included a member of the Jordanian royal family and the offspring of a number of politicians, and I have a B.A. in history with a classics minor from Vanderbilt University. I’ve been living in Europe for almost 11 years now, the first 2 1/2 years in Brussels and since then in London. See my location line for the area of London in which I live; my current flat is very close to Regents Park and Baker Street.
I have worked as a financial journalist for about 13 years and am currently employed by a well-known provider of international financial news and information in various formats - electronic and on television and radio. I pound a keyboard doing the electronic bit myself. I’m an editor on a team covering European consumer-related companies, so we follow industries such as food, beverages, retailing, tobacco, hotels and luxury goods. The businesses we report on range from Unilever, Heineken and Marks & Spencer to Puma, Bang & Olufsen and L’Oreal, just to pick a few examples at random. I also have covered stock, bond and derivatives markets as a reporter or editor. I never had any kind of interest in business growing up and don’t think I looked at a copy of the *Wall Street Journal * until I was nearing 30, but I find the financial stuff quite interesting.
When I’m not at work, I like eating out and going to the pub, seeing films, checking out photographic exhibitions, listening to music (I particularly like '60s and '70s soul, but have all sorts of stuff in my collection) and reading, mainly history. I do some working out with weights off and on and recently took a fencing class, which was a lot of fun.
Some random stuff: If I had to pick one film as my all-time favorite, it would be Paths of Glory. I have read three of Robert Caro’s books (*The Power Broker * and the second and third volumes of his Lyndon Johnson bio - that’s about 2,600 pages of reading in total) and am awed by both the scope and detail of his work. My favorite comic artists are Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner. Out of my 280-odd CDs, I’d say the five I play the most often right now are Silvertone, Chris Isaak; Lookin’ for a Love - The Best of Bobby Womack 1968-1976; The Real Underground, Tommy Keene; Repercussion, the dB’s; and The Very Best of Marvin Gaye.
As of Sunday, I’m 31. Married ~9 years, two daughters ages 4 and 1.5. No pets. I’m a SAHM and librarian; I do extra-help at the reference and children’s desks sometimes. I have a BA in comparative literature from Berkeley, where I lived for 6 years, and and MLIS. I speak fluent Danish and a bit of German and Russian. We moved to Northern CA from Silicon Valley 4.5 years ago, and love it here; we would like to build a house and stay permanently.
Currently I help to run my older daughter’s preschool group, which goes from house to house once a month. I’m also teaching her to read. We’ve decided to homeschool, for several reasons, but not because we hate the schools or wish to shut out the world or on account of our religious beliefs.
I read a lot. Right now I have the latest Joan Aiken in front of me. I also quilt, embroider, cook, and can make dipped chocolates that are better than See’s. I should garden more. My current quilt project is a Halloween quilt that will probably get put away for next year soon, and then I want to start a redwork quilt with pictures from different children’s classics. Possibly in blue. Chocolate season will soon be upon me too, and I will go through 20 lbs. of it and produce 14 different kinds of candy (that’s pretty much all I do for Christmas).
I’m devout LDS and teach the 14-15 yo girls. I probably do not produce as high-quality handouts as I should, but they are nice to me and we have some fun. I enjoy reading about all belief systems–a bugbear of mine–and am currently on a small Chesterton kick. I have never lived in Utah, and my extended family is about as religiously diverse as it is possible to be.
DangerDad and I enjoy traveling but have not had the chance for quite a while. We are hoping to be able to take more trips in the coming years, once our kids are bigger and (hopefully) work is not as pressured. We’re planning an Alaskan cruise for our 10th anniversary, so we can see the Northern Lights.
That’s all I can think of.
Hi, all! I posted some a while back as a guest, and I finally took the plunge and became a charter member today.
I’m 33 years old. My last name is of Norwegian origin – hence the name Nordic-- but I don’t really look it. I was born and raised in New Jersey, now residing in northern Virginia. For a living I’m currently adjusting workers’ compensation claims, but I’ll be going to nursing school next fall. I’m gay and happily partnered with my significant other of 6+ years. We have two high-maintenance and spoiled rotten cats.
My hobbies include comic book collecting, and country/western dancing (what can I say, I loves me some cowboys 
). My reading is mostly philosophy and lay science, with some occasional suspense/thriller fiction thrown in. My television favorites are Alias, Queer as Folk, The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, and Lost. I enjoy red wine, red beer, and black coffee. I smoke socially. I work out three times a week, give or take.
I am an atheist and all-around skeptic, with subscriptions to Free Inquiry and The Skeptical Inquirer. I am also a passionate devotee of Ayn Rand.
If someone can tell me how to post a picture of myself, I’ll be happy to. In the FAQs it says to click the “Browse” button at the bottom of the post composition page, but I don’t see one. 
I am 41 years old, wear a blue mask & uniform, & I am UTTERLY DEDICATED TO LEADING MY SSSSERPENTINE LEGIONS TO TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!!!
CCCOOOOOOBBBRRRAAAAAAA!
What the hell.
I’m 37, male, very happily married, childless, American, living in London (UK), an arts administrator by trade, of Hungarian/English descent, a Cancer, heterosexual, politically unaffiliated and rabidly moderate, and prone to depression.
Highlights of my musical career include singing before sold out audiences in several countries including several concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and on television in a few dozen countries. I also used to have a statewide public radio program.
I have three Blue Peter badges.
All of the above is the truth and nothing but the truth, if not the entirety of the truth.
Dude, where was that kind of love when I needed it?
Feh. That’s the last time I ask a major terrorist organization leader for his help.
Tripler
Yo Joe!
Okay, I think I have this picture thing figured out. Hope this works:
Sniveling Joe Lackey!
I posted in that thread!!