cloud nine

it's a downpour out there and, you know, i realized then that i never wanted it. no, i had never wanted it. what i did want, and what i had always wanted, was to exist, to take up s p a c e. to shout it. 'i'm here. i am. see me.

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GENE JOYCE is a 34 year old HOMOSEXUAL CIS MALE that was born on JANUARY 7. He live in STATEN ISLAND, but they’re originally from QUEENS, NY. They are a TELEVISION METEOROLOGIST for a living, and often get told they look like JAMES LAFFERTY. we wish them the best of luck in the city that never sleeps! 

Hello, all! This is Gene. You can find some info about him below, but please do feel free to reach out to me. I’d love to connect, plot, and write together!

Gene has a handful of early memories of living with a birth mother until the age of three, at which time he was placed into foster care. He was adopted by the Joyce family of Queens, NY at the age of six. 

His childhood was comfortable if not doting. His mother, a secretary at a burgeoning public relations firm in the city, was certainly a loving, if somewhat timid, woman who may have had difficulty adjusting to an older child in her home. His father was firm at best, domineering at worst.

He was active in his family’s church growing up, first as an altar server but then as a lector and Eucharistic minister. He attended Catholic school through the twelfth grade.  

A growth spurt in his freshman year made Gene into something of a second-tier athlete. Although he was not particularly good, he secured a spot on his school’s wrestling team and was a founding member of a short-lived boxing club.

An injury in said boxing club benched him for a semester but allowed him to take up additional hobbies, including the school radio station, where he primarily got stuck reading morning announcements. 

Gene then attended Cornell University and earned an undergraduate and then Master’s degree in meteorology. 

Relocating to New Jersey, he worked as a weatherman for a local television station for several years. He jokes it was the dental veneers that eventually got him over the Bayonne Bridge to New York. No one thinks this joke is funny. 

As a midday weekday meteorologist for WNBC, he ferries to work each morning from Staten Island and then back each evening. He makes jokes to strangers about the movie Working Girl.

No one thinks those jokes are funny either.