Abstract:
I’m a curmudgeonly sort, born and raised in North Carolina, seasoned and somewhat traumatized by thirteen long years in San Francisco and one scary summer in South Carolina. I spent most of the 1990s watching the internet be born down the street from me in San Francisco and assisting with the rearing of this new technochild. It was a rather entertaining cloud of nicotine, booze, road trips, and random sex (some of which is documented on this very site). I spent the rest of my time working at Kinko’s, listening to noisy rock and roll, and trying to avoid “gay culture”, whatever the hell that is.
I was coupled from 2001 through 2011. I no longer am. I still take road trips but I don’t smoke anymore and I’ve given up on most decadence that doesn’t involve food. I write about old supermarkets and update my databases instead. I escaped from San Francisco in 2005, got my master’s in 2009, and I’m now living back in my home state and working as a digital librarian at a large university. If this means I’ve become a boring, I’m pretty much okay with that.
Basics:
- At A Glance: Most of what you need to know about me.
- Timeline: What happened when.
- Bio: Some narrative history.
- Pictures: I rarely smile for the camera.
Selected Details from the Otherstream Archives:
- Practice Makes Perfect — Social Interaction and Me: 26 November 2005
- 100 Things About Me: Added 27 September 2002.
- Sex, Love, and Relationships Revisited: Added 12 May 2002.
- The Ideal Personal Ad: Updated 23 September 2001.
- Where I Live: Updated 28 December 2006.
- Where I Used to Live: Updated 29 July 2005.
- Where I Used to Live Before That: Updated 24 January 2003.
- On Being a Hermit: Added 18 April 1998.