1) I have a skunk stripe.
I've had grey hair since I was 14. Somedays it's visible, others it's not, really just depending on how my hair falls that day. I have people who have known me my entire life and are still surprised I have grey hair.
2) I grew up around the pool.
I consider the smell of chlorine to be nostalgic. I learned to swim before I could walk properly, (if you hear my mother speak of it, it's because I had a draw to the nearest body of water, and she made damn sure I learned to swim). I grew up a competitive swimmer. I personally recruited half of my highschool's waterpolo team, (while being a societal outcast). In battle school I took off my lifejacket as annoying; apparently it's supposed to be impossible to swim in full battle order without it.
note: my father also taught me to canoe. When we were paddling the assault boats I essentially had to stop, because I was outpaddling the entire other side.
3) My accuracy increased with the heavier the weapon I was using.
In the Infantry, it's usually supposed to be the exact opposite. Something about the heavy weight making aiming difficult.
4) School was a waste of time.
I learned more out of school than I did in it. I constantly annoyed / distressed my teachers with questions above my grade level, (or their ability to answer). The only thing having me go to highschool accomplished was increasing the grades of those around me as I reexplained the material in my boredom.
5) I'm a wannabe novelist.
I learned to write on DA, (same username), and as for written for publication I have 1 novel (complete), 2 I'm currently editing, and 1 I'm writing... in my spare time.
The real problem with becomining a novelist isn't rejection. I was prepared to accept rejection. 95% of publishers won't touch speculative fiction as “genre fiction”, (which is grouped in with horror; despite the most successful franchises of the last decade or two all being “genre fiction”). Next, few if any publishers accept manuscripts from unknown authors, unless brought in by an established literary agency. Few if any literary agents are accepting unpublished authors.
I found a grand total of two companies accepting manuscripts. One gave a generic rejection letter that heavily implies he didn't read 99% of the book, and the other did not reply at all.
6) Separated, and stuck with the bill,
and her stuff, which I'm probably going to have to pay to send back. I can't move to a smaller apartment until I do, and find a way to sell the massive bed she insisted upon, which takes up the entire room and she still complained was too small, and the treadmill she used for a couple months, and won't fit through the door now that it's assembled, (anyone in nanaimo looking for a treadmill or a california king bed, message me).
7) Still a romantic at heart.
It started as a short-term cost saving measure. With Shaw Cable, and when you leave them or roll back your service, they start sending you bribes to get you to get you to bite. We bit, and I found myself never actually watching TV. Netflix, Crunchyroll, DVD/BLU-ray's, Video Games, my own writing, and the infinite expanses of the internet provide more than enough entertainment.
In truth, when I did “watch” cable I was channel surfing without accomplishing anything. After using Netflix as a primary TV source, going back to broadcast cable is not just expensive, but painful.
Mostly RPG's, but like everything else, I have very high standards.
British Colombia – Vancouver Island – Nanaimo
It's part of Cascadia, meaning it's geographically, ecologically, and culturally contiguous with Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
As for stereotypes, I like beer and whisky, moose and beavers are fantastic, it's impossible to be Canadian and not care at all about hockey, as you absorb enough through osmosis to at least develop an opinion. I will be polite, but don't misunderstand that as weakness. My work is actually associated with the timber industry.
12) I gained my vocabulary by looking up words I don't understand in the dictionary.
As I mentioned before, my education was a waste of time. Having a dictionary on-hand to look up things you don't understand is infinitely more valuable and rewarding.
When playing WoW, a number of my guild members would ensure they had an open dictionary nearby I view this as a point of pride, not about superiority or boastfulness, but that my mere presence was enough to get people to want to better themselves.
Betterment is what has value.
13) When chairing and impromtu discussion on economics one time,
(happens more often than you might expect... or knowing me, as much as you might expect), when I was asked if I was a Professor. I didn't have the heart to tell him I only took two courses. Two courses that were not meant to be taken simultaneously. Two courses that while they didn't have any official prerequisites, was considered anathema to be taken without them. Two courses that were meant to be so overwhelming that they represented the entirety of the second-year economics curriculum.
I was still bored at how slow we were going... and annoyed by how often we relied entirely on numbers pulled out of our asses trying to prove that economics is a science, (sciences are dependant on empyricism, while economics runs on probability and estimates, informed or otherwise).
14) Combs are for hygene, not vanity.
I seriously just learned this. Considering I have dandruff, combs provide infinite value in hygene. Shaming people for vanity when they are simply following hygene is not a good idea, but most of society these days is run on emotions instead of practicality.
15) G = -6.67x10^-11 Nm^2 / kg^2
The Universal Gravitational Constant that affects all gravitational attraction in the universe. This is where 667 comes from, not the other thing...
16) Marvin the Martian's “comb” is called a Horsehair.
Ancient militaries used is as a symbol of rank. No, not about me, but this still annoys the crap out of me. Most line soldiers didn't wear them.
You can probably guess what material they were made out of.
17) Despite how perverted I am, when I ship, I do so for well founded reasons.
The way I look at it is that you can ship whatever you want, as long as you can admit when it's a crack ship. This is what really pisses me off about Zutarans and yaoibunnies. Ship what you want, but don't pretend it was meant to be when nothing in the story gives the slightest indication of it.
18) Because of 17) I have very few OT3's.
Despite being a perverted bastard. Adventure Time's primary trinity is notably one of the few.
It's like stepping back from your body and watching a silhouette do the fighting for you. I was picked on a lot as a kid, but society would not allow me to defend myself. If provoked to the point of rage, I and I alone was the one to be held accountable, (despite often being physically assaulted). I had to learn to sublimate my anger by finding inner peace. It worked so well I even earned the nickname Chuckles in the military.
That doesn't mean I'm no longer a berserker, just that few if anyone has actually seen me truly angry. So much as raising my voice makes people quiver and enter fight or flight. I almost have to whisper to not put people on the defensive.
But, my eyes are powerful enough that I've only needed glasses about a dozen times in my life. I don't know what anyone's eye colour is, though, so don't take it personally.
22) If asked if I'm an optimist or pessimist,
the answer is a disappointed optimist. I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but as often as not I'm proven wrong.
23) My favourite number is 13.
24) Birthdate is June 30th, 1982.
This is after a lifetime of historical and theological pursuit. I know more about the Bible, (and it's contexts), than most dyed in the wool Christians.
