In the intervening years from the time somebody talked me into opening a MySpace account and now, a lot of things have changed. For one, I'm gainfully employed doing something completely unrelated to my degrees (and, well, college in general). As it is, I've learned a lot about myself - 1) I don't like heights, and I especially don't like climbing all over roofs (rooves?), 2) people who smoke are okay, so long as they keep it to themselves and not smoke in the car with the windows up, 3) I've learned to passably do a death growl, but only when I'm not trying, and 4) while I enjoy painting, I don't want to be doing it for more than two more years (and probably won't be able to keep it up for long, the way I'm starting to ache).
For those who remember my old blurb, I mentioned that I write in my spare time, and still do, as much as I can. I've produced somewhere in the neighborhood of five hundred pages of material, none of it finished except for three short stories. So, unless I crack down or find myself in position to write for five or six hours a day, I'm a while yet to producing something publishable. At the very least, I can re-read it and dream about being interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross... (ahem)
Finally, before this blurb gets too long, during the intervening years I've changed my political affiliation from very liberal to liberal to libertarian. Part of this shift involved taxes and potential wealth - some day I hope to have one and avoid the other as much as possible. I'm not anarchist, believing there shouldn't be any taxes, because that would just be foolish, but I think that our government is hopelessly overwrought... er, too big. If I were involved in government more than a bi-annual vote, I would push for the Fair Tax (basically, a federal sales tax with a monthly rebate for poorer families), some form of government-provided health care (not necessarily universal, just enough that I won't hear about people going into debt to stay alive), and an emphasis on education, defense, and diplomacy. Kinda like Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, just without the emphasis that all things must be exchanged on a monetary system.
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