so, you want some personal information do you...
not so very long ago, in a galaxy far far away, a budding little pod was put on a small space probe and sent on a long journey. In just a few days (what, you expected years?) the probe reached the planet you call "Earth." A young couple was out for an evening stroll when they came upon the pod, now fully formed and resembling a human baby. They rescued the baby and raised it as if it were they're own. Okay okay okay... so maybe that isn't exactly personal information. I was just testing you.
i was born and raised in a teeny town in central Massachusetts called East Brookfield (the town actually has a section called Podunk). I was technically not born in East Brookfield, but in a hospital a couple towns away called Ware. (This technicality is important, I'm told, for astrological reasons.) I "grew up" (and have the photos to prove it) and moved to Worcester while in college.
obviously, I've left some details out here. I'm torn by (among many things) the concept of personal Web publishing: on the one side, in this age of information anxiety, who gives a rats ass about the tedious details in the life of someone you don't know, don't care about, and will probably never meet; on another side, you can read the gory details in the tedious life of someone you don't know, don't care about, and will probably never meet... Who knows when another with the likes of André Gide or Elizabeth Wurzel will appear? Maybe I'll come back to this in ~ deep(er) thoughts~ .
to at least bring you up to date though, I'll go on. I got a degree (AA) in "Applied Technology" -- I don't know what the hell it means, but my mother was very impressed. I got a computer operator job and took classes at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (aka WPI) for a couple of years. Then I moved on to DEC, where over a period of seven plus years, I went from an operator to an operating systems programmer to an operations lab manager. After my first year in software engineering at DEC, I realized I would grow bored with being a "corporate geek" after a while and began preparing for something more exciting. I went back to school nights to study design, art, and photography at Clark University (and eventually got a BS in Communications). Years passed. I was emerging from cocoondom (my friend Kevin, a person of infinite wisdom and a brain like a steel trap and immortalized in Alice's PDP-10, always said that I must have lived in a cocoon all my life) and was really itching for a new perspective on the world by now. In other words, I wanted to move somewhere far away, and I eventually settled on San Francisco. I packed up all of my worldly possessions
and a new perspective on the world is exactly what I got. My views on life, love, and happiness have spun around and gone splat (definitely worth some ~ deep(er) thoughts~ ...) First, I studied art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute for a couple of years. The rest is kind of a blur; or I'm not up to reminiscing about it now.
* a brazil nut shell perhaps...
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