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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m a 26 year old male living in Indiana again even though I swore I’d die before it happened. I lived in Seattle for the past 8 years. This small town is driving me crazy; I really need to move to Indianapolis. How’s the job market down there, Indy dopers?

I’m heterosexual, although I think my last girlfriend ruined me for everybody. If I was religious at all, I’d consider becoming a monk.

Speaking of religion, I can’t say that I have one. I believe in all gods and think they’re all :wally 's. This is the only way I can be sure that sooner or later in my life that I will be struck by lightning, and that’s an icebreaker I can’t wait to use.

I’m curmudgeony and cynical. As seems to be the common thread of all dopers from the above, I love to read. I will read anything. I read the warning labels on cigarettes and alcohol every time I buy them. I have seemed to learn nothing from this.

I love to study on my own. My favorite quote (which also happens to be from my favorite movie) is:

Preacher to George C. Scott - “You wouldn’t want to live forever. You’d get bored”
George C. Scott - “I have hobbies.”
I completely agree. I will never run out of things I want to do or learn. Yet I’m not sure which scares me more: dying or not being able to.

I am the comics, toys, video games and horror movies style geek. I also love cartoons (possibly apparent by my user name).

Currently I am working for a start up contract packaging company, with the hopes of them getting big. I have been a chef and a bartender. The most interesting job I have had was promotional manager for a large movie theater. I have also spent eight hours a day making sure the words on the spine of books fit.

I love metal music. I tried to hate the NuRock trend, but have recently been sucked in by Incubus and Saliva. I think Nirvana was the worst thing to ever happen to rock.

I love to cook, especially Italian. I cannot stand it when people pronounce it Eye-talian.

I swear all the time, drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney. I own a cat, and just lost my 6ft boa constrictor a couple of months ago.

I want to go to college but I can’t decide what to go for. I’m torn as to whether to go for something that I know will apply in the real world (computer programming, etc.) or something that I really want to do (Folklore, paleoarchaeology).

I’m an Oakland Raiders fan. My friends think I look like a cross between Johnny Depp and Jon Davis from KoRn (weird, I know). I don’t see it, but I did recently grow myself a kick ass Jack Sparrow beard.

I’m a natural night owl. I consider myself Republican, but a very liberal one. I have not voted in the last two elections. I love cars and motorcycles. I watch Monster Garage every chance I can. I can not name a single component of an engine.

I write Clive Barker style short stories and Edward Gorey style childrens books. I have several childrens books done, but cannot find an artist that will actually finish a project. I have recently been battling with photoshop to try to illustrate them myself. I am not winning the war.

I used to be a wonderful artist and a good guitar player. Now, after 8 years of not having done either, I use them as proof that the horrid term “It’s like riding a bicycle.” does not apply to everything.

I would consider dating a girl on the grounds alone that she knew where the quote “Close the door, you Nazi, or your going to die!!” came from.

I just figured out how to do spoilers today!!!

Thank you for your time,
Resident MeatBeast

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I’m an 18-year-old college freshman, at St. John’s College (a teeny-tiny, offbeat liberal arts school) in Santa Fe. I’m originally from New Jersey (right outside Philadelphia, really), and, while I miss having the shore just an hour or so away, I’ve fallen head-over-heels in love with Santa Fe. Wonderful people, beautiful land, amazing food.

I spent the past summer doing my time behind the counter in the food court at a local mall. I’m currently working in a work-study position at the Museum of New Mexico.

I was recently described by my roommate as “perplexingly multi-faceted”, and I think that fits. I’m a martial artist (tae kwon do is my primary art, and I’m studying shotokan as well) as well as a writer (mostly sf/f). I play violin, absolutely love Irish folk music, but also listen to just about any type of music, ever. I’m a slave to my cell phone and its text-messaging capabilities, and am shamefully good at Tetris. I’m a Young Angry Liberal who, if given the time, would spend hours upon hours a day reading newspapers and commentaries. A personal quirk is that I never, ever read only one article on any given news story; nor do I ever get my news from the TV. For that matter, I don’t watch TV. I do, however, read compulsively.

I’m a vegetarian, mostly because it’s healthier for me and I don’t like meat that much. I firmly believe that Hot-Fudge Sundae Pop-Tarts are the best food ever invented. I drink socially, though not often, mostly because most college students can’t afford good things to drink. I can’t cook, and am a somewhat picky eater.

I’d eventually like to go into diplomacy or journalism, not sure which. I’d also like to find Prince Charming who will wisk me off on a fabulous European getaway, and we will fall madly in love, and he will, of course, be a Perfect Gentleman. This has not happened yet, though I believe I’ve found his polar opposite.

And that is me, in a nutshell.

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I formally challenge you to a tetris match… to the death!

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I am a 46-year-old happily married monogamous father of two young children. I was raised on the east side of Cleveland, and then spent high school in rural Kentucky.

I have a BS in Business from Indiana University in Bloomington and (almost all of) an MS in Accounting and Information Systems from University of Colorado-Denver.
I’ve lived in OH, KY, IN, NC, WY, MD, CO, MI, CO again, CA, and KY again.

I was widowed at 27 and remarried at 36.

I have been atheist for nearly 30 years.

I’ve been a Cecil Adams fan since the second book came out. I’ve never lived anywhere in which his column has been syndicated.

I am the chief information officer for a health insurance company.

I drink, but a lot less than I used to.

I serve as a board member, and as the treasurer, of my kids’ Montessori school.

I am a member of the Kilvert Society, which is based in Hereford England. From their group activity photos, I’d guess that I’m their youngest member (at age 46) by 25-30 years. This group is trying to keep alive the memory of Rev. Francis Kilvert, who wrote a diary in the 1870’s which surfaced around WWII and becamse quite famous (at least in Britain). My great-great grandparents are mentioned throughout the diary, so my interest in the Society is more concerned with history than literature.

I love music, reading, and genealogy. My Morrell family branch was very prominent in England in Victorian times, and there are still buildings and streets (but sadly, no longer a brewery) around the Oxford area bearing the name.

I have many relatives in Canada and Australia; the latter of which I’m just now discovering. We’ve been close to the Canadian branch all my life.

I play keyboards and bass guitar. I still follow the group King Crimson, as well as other musicians of that genre.

And I think Mike Keneally rules.

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Me in no particular order:

I am a 20 year old elementary teacher in training with another year and a half of school remaining. Was born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania and moved semi-permanently (as in I almost never reside with my parents anymore) to south central Pennsylvania last year. I plan to move again to Anchorage, AK if I can get a job there.

I’m a nerd of all trades, from sewing to genetics and most everything in between. I’m also a student senator, a college radio DJ, and a semi-activist when I can find time.

I love reading with a passion and have overflowed three full bookshelves already. Maybe this is because I’m a fan of self-education and make a home for good discard textbooks. I love Vonnegut, Kafka, Orwell, and Zamyatin and hate Hemingway and Dostoevsky. I will watch television for major news events, but mostly stick to nerd channels otherwise. My musical horizons continue to be expanded by the whole college-radio experience.

I was raised Catholic and am now Deist, but don’t tell my grandparents.

I come from German, Polish, and Slovak ancestry, with a bit of Welsh thrown in somewhere in the immigration process.

I’m mostly vegetarian due to natural tastes, with some backsliding towards chicken lately due to gastric issues. I used to drink occasionally, but now I’m not supposed to have alcohol for the same reason. When I could, I favored things that were too expensive for college students anyway.

I work at an information desk, where I give information to students who can’t open a phone book or read a poster.

I’m bisexual (3 on the Kinsey scale), but way too busy to get romantically involved with anyone lately.

I’m always multitasking- in fact, I wrote this while studying for a test and talking to my mother.

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Hahaha – thought you might want to know you totally swooshed me with that first line and now you owe me a new keyboard!

:slight_smile:

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White American male, heterosexual, married, looking at 40.

Born in New York City. Grew up mostly in upstate NY. Went to college in Buffalo, came to the Boston area after graduating and have been here ever since.

Background is Irish/Catholic. The Catholic thing never “took” for me. My wife and I are members of a Unitarian/Universalist church. This is probably the best possible fit for me but if I were single I wouldn’t go at all, I don’t get much out of it.

I tend to avoid political discussions here. I am very liberal on lifestyle issues and conservative on fiscal issues.

I resemble the actor Ed Norton, shorter and without his receding hairline.

I have a BS in Molecular Biology. I have worked since college in medical research. It has been a good gig but I am getting tired of spending my life in the lab. I am looking to get out, most likely in a somewhat related field.

I have one son who is four and a half. He was born partially deaf, we don’t know the cause (this apparently is not unusual). He wears hearing aids.

He happily does not know anything is different about him and he is extremely smart and cute. This isn’t just parental boasting, he is strangers-in-the-mall-turn-their-heads-and-point kind of cute.
I feel like I am unlike a lot of Dopers in that I am not interested in games of any type. People here seem to care an awful lot about video games, computer games, role playing games, all sorts of games. All unknown to me. I also have no interest in computers or related things for their own sake. Or in any of the so called "reality TV"shows.

I essentially stopped watching TV except for some sporting events and rented movies around the time my son was born. I don’t feel like I am missing anything.

My current hobbies and interests include skiing, birds, cooking (especially Chinese), beermaking and gardening with native plants.

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I did have a slight dizziness but I never felt sick. I had alot of pressure in my ears and flying on a plane was horrible. I could not get my ears to pop at all. My doc said I had fluid built up in both of my ears and I had a Myringotomy (tubes in the ears). They did a hearing test after the surgery and my hearing has improved but the Tinnitus remains. Hearing aids will not help me as it is nerve deafness. The Tinnitus is actually a symptom of deafness. There is no cure for it. I heard there are OTC meds but I have never tried them.

I hope your next appointment shows more improvement. Good Luck

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I’m 18 an YO male, youngest of three children, currently majoring in Math & CS at UPitt. I’m far left socially and vaguely right economically.

It’s incredibly difficult to motivate me to do anything except for read. I’m a bit more than half Syrian, that same bit less than quarter Turkish, and then mixed fairly dilute from there. I’m primarily homosexual, and I think I’m single, but right now it’s kind of at that stage where I can’t tell. Everyone except dearest mother dear knows I’m gay, and though she was the first family member I told, she adamantly refuses to belive it’s possible that her “perfect baby” is anything but her idea of perfect.

Both my parents are remarried and each hates the other.

I used to be horribly overweight, then I hit my “ignore everything your mother ever tells you” stage, and lost about 60 lbs, still leaving me obese, but much better. This is something that occured to both my older sisters. Also, upon finding a way to make a schedule where I had to see her only at nights on weekends, I stopped abusing painkillers and pot, leaving me clean for just over a year. This is also something which happened to both older sisters after the same stimulus. Though, any visit home longer than a weekend ends with all involved parties gaining at least 10 lbs.

Thanks to the combined many years of experience in my family of doing stupid things, and trading tricks with eachother, I’ve still learned enough about doing stupid things that my generally nice and protective nature forces me to be a nanny to all the juvenile delinquents around. I’m the one who makes sure they don’t set things on fire when they don’t want to, that there’s always a fresh dryer sheet around whenever they want to light up indoors, carries people home from parties when they black out, tries to keep them from blacking out in the first place, yadda yadda yadda.

I also have my room key attached to a multi-tool, so more than once have I been called upon to break into an apartment building’s locked basement to fix a popped circut when someone wants neither to call the landlord at 1AM with 50 drunk 18 year olds in his apartment nor to go stumbling around in the dark for the rest of the night. The LED on my multi-tool finds employment nearly every time I leave the dorm.

Finally, myself and my sister Kat are both violently allergic to vodka- one shot, half an hour, and we’re face down in the toilet vomitting until we lose conciousness. The only other person anyone has heard of with this problem is a cousin of ours.
The only picture of me already online is available [url=http://i07.thefacebook.com/pics/0/1/n14201014_6433.jpg]here, and the page it’s lifted from is openly linked to at the bottom of my AIM profile. My S/N should be in my user info.

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I’m a 24 year old caucasian male who is a Senior at San Jose State. I still live with my mom, which perplexes many people considering I work three jobs. Right now it is a matter of convenience because I live within 20 minutes of school and work. I will be getting my BA in English next month and looking for a full-time job so that I can move out. Many people misjudge me because they believe I could do all this while living/sharing in some apartment. To be honest, I thought it over, and for the time being my current living situation means I can concentrate on school while using the money I make to be as self-sufficient as possible.

I have three part-time jobs. The first is as a Crossing Guard for the San Jose Police Department. The second job is as a tutor for a major tutoring franchise. The third job is as a piano teacher working under a master teacher at a local music store.

I have been playing the piano since I was 7, but I don’t think I’m as good as I ought to be; the fact is that I always thought of it as kind of a ‘hobby’ and so its kind of on and off; I have been trying to take it more seriously recently but it is challenging to get enough practice in with everything else in my life going on. I enjoy teaching piano.

Currently I am in the process of submitting poetry to Reed Magazine, practicing for a series of piano recitals, and planning on auditioning for The Bacchae.

I am a frequent poster on the SDMB. I enjoy posting wierd/gross stories, and sharing my experiences with others. Presently, I am single and looking, but I haven’t met anybody that really ‘clicked’. I have a lot more self-confidence around women lately, though most of the women I seem to be attracted to are already married :smack:

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Obese? Obese?! Brother, you got the wrong adjective! From what I can see in your Facebook picture, you look very muscular. Obese… not at all.

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Me?
I’m harmless. :smiley:

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Erm… there’s been about three years since then and now. Prolly should have mentioned it.

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I’m sure I’ve posted my stats before, but here we go anyway. :slight_smile:

I’m a soon to be 32 year old single white female. I have a boyfriend of 3 years who I’m NOT GOING TO MARRY! I have an associates degree from a local college in Business Administration, and currently work at a University managing a research group.

I’m attending said University and I’m in my final year of a Psychology degree. I’m planning to follow that up with an Applied Counseling diploma from the same University. Depending on how that goes, I might get a masters degree in Applied Psychology.

I also work one night a week as a cosmetician at a drug store, and two Sunday’s a month at a ladies consignment store, 'cus I’m really into clothes and makeup. :slight_smile:

I’m of Scottish/Irish heritage, so I’m pale and white like a fish belly. My hair is red, but I’ve recently colored it black, which actually looks pretty ok, provided I’m wearing a bright color by my face. I’m 5’8" and tend to be somewhat thinish.

I own a condo in Canada, where I live with my puppy and my bunny.

I have no religion of note; however, I am planning Christmas festivities for my Buddhist brother, his Buddhist wife, my atheist parents, and an assortment of friends.

And finally:

Redhead (usually)
Nice Rack
Puts Out :smiley:

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waves to Aesiron Hi! My brother and sister both go to Willamette. I’m still trying to figure out how you live in the Valley and have never had a [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5512930&postcount=8]mosquito bite
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Anyway, I go to the real OSU and plan to be a pharmacist eventually.

I tend to have imaginary conversations with real people, and then forget that they are imaginary.

I like to pretend I’m secret-agent cool, but when no-one is looking I rescue caterpillars from the sidewalk.

However, I will hunt you down and kill your favorite houseplant if you use the word “anyways” within my hearing.

I love to go backpacking far enough into the wilderness that I can pretend I’m the last woman on earch, and plan my New World Order (hey, if I am the last woman on earth, you think the guys are going to quibble with me over something as tiny as world domination?).

I am fascinated with people who always know to say to other people, where “fascinated” is a euphamism for “stalk.”

I have a hard time making girl friends, because my Tact-O-Meter is permanently stuck at “clueless.”

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Hmm…I wonder if I’m the only one who has a mild internet crush on raz?

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Okay, here goes.

I am a 28 (29 on Christmas Eve) year-old female, currently living in Northern New Jersey, where I was born and raised. I have lived in Boston (spent a year at Berklee College of Music) and Maine, as well as the trunk of my car while traveling around the country.

Here are a couple pictures, all at least two years old, but I don’t look much different. In all cases, I am the redhead.

I am outspoken, outgoing, and out … crap, I ran out of words. sigh Anyhow, I’m somewhat cynical in an optimistic manner (try pulling that off), have a pretty good sense of humor–although it can be morbid and/or off-color at times–and have at least a little knowledge on a wide variety of subjects. I kick ass at Trivial Pursuit. I love movies, books, music and conversation. I could probably be considered a big geek–RPG’s, comic books, science fiction, James Bond movies … all the things girls aren’t supposed to know about.

I’m of many different nationalities–mostly Russian and Israeli on my (Jewish, go figure) Dad’s side, and German, Irish, Scottish, French, English, and Dutch on my Mom’s. Mom’s family got around, apparently. I was raised in a very “Happy Chanukah, go plug in the tree” manner, and everything I know about the Bible I learned from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alex Trebek. Since I was given the option to see to my own religious training, I am a practicing pagan of decidedly Wiccan leanings, but I have an almost rabid dislike of “organized” religion.

I work as an office assistant for a mail-and-internet-order company that sells photographic supplies, which is not very interesting, but the upside is that it doesn’t pay very well, either. I never finished college, I went to broadcasting school and graduated with high marks but never put the knowledge to use, and I like to think that what a person does is much less important than who they are. (Although, I probably wouldn’t want to date the guy that works the hammer at the slaughterhouse, or anything.)

I am heterosexual (except when drunk, as some of you may have read :wink: ), and perpetually single. My last serious relationship was eight years ago, and I find it hard to date because I refuse to change myself or “conform” to society’s norms in order to get someone to look twice at me. I don’t drink much, but I do smoke pot on a fairly regular basis. I love coffee almost more than life itself, and I don’t think there’s ever a bad time for pudding. :slight_smile:

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I’m a 19 year old female, bisexual and never heard of the Kinsey scale before today. I was born and raised in Waltham, MA, just outside of Boston. I have an older brother and a little sister that neither of us has met because my parents suck at being parents. I dropped out of prep school at 16, the best choice I ever made. I’m defending my thesis from my BS in chemistry in a little less than a month. I’ll graduate, summa cum laude in June from UMass Lowell. I live on campus with laurelann and another girl that does read the boards, other than over our shoulders.

I’m hoping to go to UC Davis for grad school and live with a guy that I love like a brohter, even though I’ve only know him a year. Haven’t gotten around to tell my parents that yet, as they won’t believe me that we aren’t romantically or physically invovled. I want a PhD in organic chemistry.

I am a geek. I think calculus is fun. I read a book a day when I have time. Bujold, Weber and Pierce are my favorite authors. I role play, a lot. Just to make Laurel cringe, as she’s a closet gamer, I’ll start conversations in the caf with “So a cleric, a monk and a paladin walk into a bar…” My best friend knows pi to 200 places.

I used to be addicted to TV when I was at home, mostly to escape my world. Love MAS*H, Law and Order, the Golden Girls and the Simpsons, but not like I used to. Never really all that into movies, even though I’m trying to gt a job at Blockbuster. I love bizzare movies, like Wasbi and Stand and Deliver, yes, I know they have nothing at all in common.

My love life is rather depressing, one boyfriend that loved me, but I had no real feelings for, one very taken guy that tried to seduce me and nearly succeeded then lied to his girlfriend and all of our friends about it, not that anyone but his girlfriend believed him.

Politically, I’m socially very liberal, but somewhat physically conservative. I’m not sure I could live in a red state without pissing the hell out of all of the people there.

I drive a 1992 station wagon, currently without plates as they got stolen last week. So more parking, less driving.

I love to cook, crochet and go goth clubbing.

I’m a weirdo and proud of it.

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Oh, these are neat. Here’s mine:

I’m a 24-year-old multiracial lesbian living in a small town in southern Ohio. I was born and raised in Petersburg, Virginia until moving to Pittsburgh at 17. I moved here after meeting a girl online, and I’ve now been “married” to the long-suffering Mrs. Chatelaine for the last five years. We have three dogs – an Italian Greyhound, a German Shepherd and a rescued feral hound mix.

I have a high school diploma, an almost LPN certification, and various other bits and pieces under my belt. I worked for Dell Computers as a technical support agent for quite awhile and then moved on to the largest retailer on earth – the much beloved Amazon.com. Amazon and I parted ways in January of this year, and I took a job as a medical transcriptionist with a small local business. I’m looking for a change as we speak.

I’m an extremely liberal, very non-PC, atheist vegetarian who belongs to PETA. Stephen King, Anne Rice, Edmund White, Anne Sexton, Sara Schulman, Cynthia Voigt and Beverly Cleary are a tiny handful of my favorite writers. Addicted to music, as well – Ozzy, Black Sabbath, The Ramones, The Hail Marys, The Clash, The Cure, X-ray Spex, Courtney Love, Hole, Nirvana, Melissa Etheridge, Jim Croce, Tupac Shakur, NWA, Missy Elliot, OutKast, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton and The Cranberries are the CDs on the closet shelf to me. I collect ungodly amounts of Ozzy/Sabbath memoribilia and have things so obscure I’m sure the band doesn’t even member making it.

If I can get past my enormous and relentless failure complex, I’m planning on going back to school [online] for a degree in either English or Psychology.

My decorating is strange and I talk to myself a lot. I love dollhouses, action figures, video games, porn, capital A Art [the good and bad], computers, anime, headbanging, refridgerator magnets, books, cooking, film [the good stuff and guilty pleasure flicks], web design, poetry [I’m one of the four people who still read it], smoking [a shame, but true], dying my hair, weird t-shirts, shooting the shit and misuse of brackets. I can’t stand pretentious people or drama. My gender identity is strange – most people say that I look like a woman and think like a man, whatever that means. I’m pragmatic and a bit of a misanthropist these days, and I lean toward being a recluse.

I’m legally blind without corrective contacts, and have a depth perception problem that doesn’t allow me to drive.

“Pet causes” are AIDS, transgender issues, animal rights and throwing after-dinner mints at the heads of stupid people.

My big goal right now is to lose weight and get healthy, and try to figure out What I’m Doing With My Life.

I used to post here as QueerGeekGirl, but had to change my handle because people are strange.

And that, my friends, is more than you ever wanted to know.

If you want, you can see me here.

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Draelin, I have to ask: Where in North Jersey? I grew up in Bergen County. . .

Tripler
. . . and I’ve been a die hard Devil Worshipper since Oct 5th, 1982.