I don’t have a colon, which is unusual, but maybe not the kind of thing you were thinking about.
I sometimes feel pretty much alone in viewing things that many people see as important - blood relation, gender - as nonissues.
I didn’t finish high school and have a GED
I got my BS at 19
My boyfriend is 30 (I’m 21). It’s not unheard of, but many people are taken back by it
I’m currently unemployed (I’m waiting for a fellowship to come through so I can go back to grad school)
I’m not dreading the fact that I’ll most likely have to work another Christmas in retail
No colon? Wow.
When did you drop out of high school, or did you just get bored and leave early to pursue college?
You and me and a titty makes three tonight…
See, these are the reasons I count you among my Dope “crushes”! Also, you were born in 1970 and so was I…obviously that’s very meaningful. 
If it weren’t for the fact that I’m married, and you don’t like Cyndi Lauper, I’d totally…uh…send you an e-mail.
I match on everything above, but I do have many quirks to make me different.
I am a huge Tolkien/Middle-Earth Fan.
I use to play a lot of D&D and I still play 6-8 times a year, a continuous campaign that I have run 5 years now.
I am a Yankee Fanatic and can talk baseball for hours on end without getting tired of doing so.
I actually post at a higher rate than anyone else on the Dope does. However, I am finally cutting back. (A little)
This is not so rare anymore, but I can build a computer from scratch and I have been doing so since pre-win95 days.
I am an environmentalist that is in favor of building nuclear power plants (to replace coal plants) and I actually have a 6700-watt solar Panel system on my house that has reduced my electric bills by 2/3rds.
I am pro-military, served 4 years in the NAVY, I used to be somewhat skilled with a bow and yet I have never fired a gun in my life.
I have driven cross-country 3 times, once solo. I just drove to Disney from Central Jersey with two kids in the car and I have driven to New Orleans, Florida and Ohio multiple times. On my final cross-country trip, I first spent a week driving up the California coast and back before leaving for NJ, so I drove 5000 miles over a 12-day period. My Honeymoon consisted of a 17-day drive all over Scotland and Northern England. It was my wife’s suggestion. I really love her. It was the best time of my entire life. We visited 20+ castles and ruins along with other points of interests and stayed in a different B&B every night.
I thought owning a few thousand books was odd, but on this board, I seem closer to average.
I love to build wooden toys for my kids and my next project will be a wooden play Castle.
I am an RPG AS400 programmer which is pretty rare an obscure.
Jim {I know Too much information, I’m sorry}
You lost me at huge Tolkien/Middle-Earth Fan.
No, really, you never fired a rifle during basic training in the Navy?
Argh, my differences I’m sure are less to those that are not me- but just the same border on being painful to share; still I see it as something I need to do for myself…
Hmm, I/ I was/am:
Sensitive about being white
hate beer unless it’s in battered food or dessert
clinically depressed with a dash of G.A.D
as a child I was deathly afraid of making noise to the extent I would walk on the sides of my feet in order to keep the wooden floorboards from shifting.
as an older child wanted only to blend in to the “background” so I would be as boring as possible on purpose.
always interested in subjects by men’s terms labeled “gay” or unusual ( colors, rainbows, art, poetry, nature, singing, cooking, listening :P)
Have drawn since an early age and stopped when I got married.
unlike dwc1970 I do like mechanics, in fact I’m fascinated by how things work (was a big transformers fan; still am (shhh)) can’t fix a car so well, just general maintenance and love the mechanics of anything really like say flow paradigm of an office structure and company’s network (am a hardware technician) or how a flower opens and closes and why-Science,science,science.
Try to know a little about everything (have a long way to go!)
extremely CURIOUS
love animals
fart more when aroused blush
think farts are hilarious (memorizes the sounds made and end-up laughing over and over long after the smell passesgrin)
love imitating noises and people (yes I’m annoying=D )
constantly find humor in things
burn to become something greater but overcome by confusion
Have always liked women better in regards to everything (friends, sex, concert dates)
Feel music sometimes is there for me even more than my Christianity
Have big lips comparable to most black males- was teased about them to the point a kid with crutches took the foam cushions off the tops and put them inside each other and yelled out that he was me with this over his mouth in front of the bus- strangely I thought it was funny and laughed, but was hurt also.
Married a Polish woman that I met online and am very happy with her
father is German and denied me this language as a child, mother was French/ cajun US born
voted against Bush both elections (quite proud:) )
watch “Adult Swim” type of japanimation on Cartoon Network and prefer it to most anything else on TV anymore.
Don’t hate sports, but never found much interest in them except ice skating, boxing and gymnastics (started watching ice skating and gymnastics because of the many good perspectives of the female form and ended-up enjoying the sports themselves) (boxing because I wanted to learn more about fight strategy, ie mechanics)
think nude always shows more about a person; honesty
love the female form and greatly regret not taking Human form study for art
…hmm, I think I talk too much I’ll stop here…
I was ASMOED for walking Pneumonia the week before we were supposed to go to the range. The new company’s CC found out I was a College Math Tutor and in the Nuke program. He made me the Education PO and effectively the company Yeoman. As Yeoman it was very simple to mark off that I had did my shooting. I pulled a similar stunt when I was Mess Cranking, in the middle of the 2 months I did Mess Cranking, the office for the Galley was being overhauled and I transferred myself from the galley to the bakeshop. No one ever noticed and I had much better duty that it turned out I was very good at it. I also made a great Supply PO for E-Div as I knew how to trick the supply system and get our stuff in a much more timely fashion. To me it was all kind of a game in a way.
Jim
Is it bad that I laughed at the crutches/big lips thing.
Why are you sensitive about being white, if you don’t mind me asking?
You met your wife online? See, I have never met anyone that has met their spouse online.
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Why?
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In this day I didn’t think to mention that, but I met my SO online. We’ve been together a bit over 5 years now.
Hmm, I guess in the US at least it’s gotten to the point where white people aren’t “allowed” to have problems and in someway also have less “freedom” to speak out against other races… anyway that’s just what it seems like…
As far as the lips thing, my mother always told me I’d be a good kisser and it worked out it’s great cuz I can suck both my wife’s breasts at the same time hah-HAAH! who’s laughing now??
We met online sure, but I should clarify- I did meet her and her family twice in person; spent Christmas and New years (called “Sylvester”) in Poland. I fell in love with her AND her family -it’s funny too, cuz her father is 6’4" and about 220lbs and I kept wondering why he was cool with me sleeping in the same room with his (then unmarried daughter). My parents would have never gone for that. I then spent another 3 months with her in the UK and we emailed daily outside of that so, I knew her pretty well.
I had four majors in college, though I only graduated with three degrees because I am a lazy slacker
I have a master’s degree in astronomy.
I’m a female IT person (we’re pretty rare).
I feel stupid for not being able to get a PhD, but it’s so much work (and so irrelevant to my current job) that I doubt I will ever get one. That, and I’d have to take the Physics GRE again :eek:
My story of how I met Mr. Neville is one of the most complex “how we met” stories I’ve encountered, and one of the hardest to reduce to a one-sentence summary. I’ll bore you with it on request.
I once had a “pop thesis defense” and a “pop interview” (sort of like pop quizzes).
I converted to Judaism as an adult.
I don’t have complete control over what religious beliefs I do or don’t believe. I tried being an atheist for a while, but I found out that I really didn’t believe that there is no God, and I couldn’t make myself believe it.
I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 23. I still don’t like to drive, and will take other forms of transportation (walking around town, flying for vacations, family visits and such) whenever feasible. I think I’d be a lot happier if I could figure out a way to commute using public transit, but unfortunately I can’t.
Every so often, ever since I was 23, I’ve been getting letters from the AARP asking me to join. They usually show up in the mail on days when I’m feeling old, too.
I’ve been a fashion dropout from age 16.
I’m at least as capable as most guys of ignoring a messy apartment for months or years on end. It just doesn’t bother me to have clutter around me unless I’m looking for something and can’t find it, and I really don’t understand why it would bother some people as much as it seems to- for example, I don’t get people who can’t go to bed or sit down and watch TV while there are dishes in the sink. (Mr. Neville and I have a housekeeper come every couple of weeks, just so things don’t get too bad and we lose our security deposit when we move).
I like both cats and dogs (I’m bi-species).
I play computer games a lot, but I don’t play arcade-style or shooter games- anything that requires good hand-eye coordination or fast twitch reflexes, which I most definitely don’t have. World-conquest games (like Civ) are my favorites.
I have clinical depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and social anxiety. I have found that going on a low-carb diet makes my depression a lot worse, even when I am on medication.
Nope. Well, I started out with one, you understand. It was removed.
Anyone does? How?
They seem to. In a thread I read here about people changing religions, they say they decided to believe something, and that was the end of it. There was no wanting to believe something, but being unable to make yourself do so. I went through that twice- I was raised Christian and couldn’t make myself believe that, then I tried to be an atheist and the same thing happened.
I have worked in biomedical research for over 5 years and I’m one of 5 people at this univeristy that does this without a B.S. (We know each other. I’m the only one who’s going to school part time to get that damned piece of paper.)
I manage a mouse colony for a living. Basically I “farm” mice: breed them, harvest tissues, transplant organs.
I have survived a lot of things: custody of the state as a child, physical, emotional and sexual abuse. (I’m more open about it here than in “real” life.)
I’m a neo-pagan and active in the local community. No, I don’t use the mice for spell ingredients.
Friends tell me that I’m pretty funny, I haven’t figured away to express that here on the Dope.
Right now I’m taking anti-depressents, birth control pills and synthetic thyriod medication and wondering if my endocrine system is doing anything on its own.
Oh, and I’m married. People seemed to be very surprized by this. ::shrug::
Reader’s Digest version:
Muslims believe in fighting for what they think is right.
Christians are all about being humble.
More of Amerca’s citizens own guns than any other country in the world. That doesn’t exactly scream “I’m so humble” to me.
I work in broadcasting.
I knit.
I’m a Star Trek fan.
I’m a voracious reader. I’m currently re-reading the Oz books by L. Frank Baum.
My husband is disabled due to an on-the-job accident.
I have a scar on my left pinkie from when a doctor tried to burn a wart off my palm with acid.
I despise eggs. I will eat them mixed in a cake or something, but the mere sight of them makes me ill, and the smell of them cooking makes me gag. Custard? Quiche? Creme brulee? Begone!
I’m a devout maniacal Dune fan. Ask me any question about Dune and I bet I can answer it 999 times out of a 1000. I also have almost every book Frank Herbert ever wrote except the stuff with Bill Ransom, which I don’t really like, and a couple of others.
I’m type II bipolar. And I’m glad. It explains so much.
I have absolutely no problem distinguishing sex from love. However, I don’t sleep with other people because my boyfriend doesn’t want me to.
I hate bananas, orange juice, hot dogs and bologna. I was a pain in the ass to feed as a child.