About Me
"... But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy with odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, and seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil."
-William Shakespeare, King Richard III
I grew up on the beaches of Florida, but I don't know how to surf. I spent my youth playing soccer and D&D, I hated school, but I loved to learn. I graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA, but I left my first college with a 4.0. I was an artist when I was young, but I matured into a writer. As an adult I do co-operative writing, go to college full time, play video games, studied Chinese Kung Fu, and I have a few television shows that I watch. ( Battlestar Galactica, Rome, The L Word, and anything else that's obscene and beautiful. )
Mood: I am Jack's wasted life.
Current Fortune Cookie: "You should get in touch with your feminine side at this time."
I'm a full time student at Kennesaw State University (KSU), with a major floating somewhere between professional writing and photography. I have a computer science certification, but I've decided I'm a better writer than I am a cubicle warmer. I write short stories, erotic fiction, poetry, the first six pages of novels, and I collect fortune cookies.
You might find me leaning back in my luxury office recliner and working on the monitor tan, I could just off to the kitchen to fix myself a bowl of cereal, or maybe I'm just checking out some of the fine ladies that send me personalized Viagra discount coupons on the inter-web. I might be rocking out to an old mix tape I made for a cheerleader who slapped me in 7th grade, trying on some of the cardboard cologne samples out of magazine, but most likely I'm hanging with my crew in line outside of Wal-Mart at 4 AM on Christmas Eve, sippin' on a little Sunny-D, in hopes that they get in a shipment of Wii's.
The greatest deterrent to financial and social success in my life is remembering that the tribulations of my life are illusions. It is too easy to spend an entire life devoted to the accumulation of wealth and status. The world is so old and we have such preciously little time to be here. The most simple things are those that contribute to a beautiful life.
There are times when I feel like I would be better off alone and put away the search for love. I am haunted by too many relationships that have made me feel ugly either in the flesh or in the heart. Yet, I can think of nothing that would do more to make me feel some amount of peace and calm in life than to love a woman who loves me in return.
A living thing can be replaced with another, but a life, once extinguished, is gone from the universe forever; and so, there is evil in making war where there could be peace instead, though the grief of death can be forgotten. However, to be unable to make war when evil visits upon those you love is another kind of evil. The sort of which a man can never forget.
We have an enormous world full of people and places. There is no limit to the number of accomplishments a person can achieve in their life, and yet for all the things we can have and all of the things we can do, our entire world is only an echo in the night sky of some other. All I really want is to, at the end of my life, stare into forever and say, "I was."
... I could also deal with some Sour Gummi Bears.
