greets'n'salutes. sure enough i dove in with a head full of hard-wired sleep-dep and MegaTea [try to stick with two shots per mug], so i've already made an ass of myself here at least once today. this might be my last chance to set a new record before the whiskey puts me to sleep. (and this won't be my regular modus operandi - it's always like this *just* before i get a job...)
 male, 31 (not for much longer, being a scorpion, but i pass for young twenties when i'm cleaned up - the rest of the time i look like a cross between kurt and some amish guy), what else can i say? 189cm, close to 14 stone. oh, right. mildly overeducated in the grand american scale of things. good singing and speaking voice, though not much of an orator unless i have something written. (yes, that's me volunteering for long-distance [i'm assuming] mod-talent work. i looked like this in february:
http://brightgirl.net/janusz.html but i might do a convincing elf when clean-shaven with my scalp grown out - and since my roommate (who took those) has set up a studio in this very house - well, enough shilling. i'll be more coherent next time the subject comes up anyway.
 more importantly, my new ambition [partially fueled by my roommate's notion of getting me a tester job at monolith] is to throw myself into an iron modder session in less than a year. first i have to finish putting a skirt on the front porch. but before that i have to try out these delectable-looking/sounding mods that i stumbled across through the works of dan simpson and the mighty w.weimer.
 oh yeah. games. i remember my best friend bringing his dad's apple ii (no plus, no c, no e, just ii) to 4th grade show and tell. playing their excuse for pac man on their excuse for a joystick. and the 2600, and the vic20 (my first) and c64 (which had everything at the time)... traded most of my gi joes for all of a neighbors ad&d library... playing castle wolfenstein when doom wasn't even a twinkle in the *war* department's eye, let alone the zork and ultima ridden world of not-strictly-hand-eye-action games. speaking of ultima, we made it from iii to v before we all started getting PCs. then BBSing. then chipping away at a 4yr degree for 12 years. now back home in seattle after 8yrs and a million worlds away in olympia (and a bit in portlandOR). that's even sillier than it sounds, actually; when pan american was still breathing, my stepmother flew me to the family in australia almost every year. anyone notice how the bruce willis icon was taken by an aussie and a kiwi? i would've too, if he was properly shaved and lost the shades... i mean kurt isn't my hero, but he did do some good work for a little while. so i'm a music freak [with the exception of cannibal corpse's end of their spectrum, and most 'young country' pap, and the more hopelessly recycled r&b shenanigans]. not as much of a movie freak anymore, but still ahead on most lists. {lately it's all about wes anderson, richard kelly and zach braff}. theatre is "my bag" if you will. twelve years of acting, with a few instances of [hesitant] direction and choreography thrown in. but now i'm seriously considering picking up where i left off in late '96, the next-to-last time i diverted from my theatrical studies, took "data to information", and completely lost interest in discrete math and java simultaneously after only a month (but still aced digital logic). i'm considering getting a thorough grounding in linux too, since one of my longest-standing friends was #2 at redhat, and in '95 i mutually-befriended a noble bostonian who is now a security muckymuck at amazon.
 so yeah, mostly it's the games. the longer and more involved the better. for which you are to be hugely blessed, crafting depth and vision where yesterday there was only a glimmer of false accomplishment! (not to speak ill of any designers, to be sure...)
 my shame in that department is having spent so many permutations and micro-managements with the beegees, ultimas, xcoms, *crafts, that i've barely touched nwn and haven't even seen the Temple (the first module i ever paid money for).
 still trying to slog through both IWDs. hell, i've only really finished bg1 and soa thrice apiece. my unattached wizard slayer and undead hunter campaigns are sitting halfway through their final battles (or perhaps two fifths?) because i got the cold sweats worrying about whether the final animation would really be a payoff. i'm frankly more addicted to the creation and procedural processes than Finding Out What Happens At The End. which is why i figure i'll end up becoming some kind of monstrous mongrel modder. (although that might not be so great for a prospective game tester... hmmm...)
 i'm gathering that there are a few texans-or-thereabouters in the upper echelons here? might be another excuse to visit my ex in houston... as long as i don't have to go anywhere near dallas. i've had an aversion to dallas county ever since i saw errol morris' "the thin blue line".
 breathe! breathe!
EDIT: spelling/name correction/grammar/bracket adjustments