"The unexpected becomes expected."
Me, My Beliefs, My Autobiography, etc.
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My Beliefs
In which I try, and fail, to talk about the things I believe.
What's up with the Labyrinth?
A quick look at my obsession with spirals and labyrinths and mazes and masks.
Dealing with Depression
A brief history of my depression and things I have done to cope with it.
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
Discussing some of my political ideas.
Why I Got My Tattoo
As usual, a ramble about something I did...
I am married (working on our four year) to a beautiful woman named Sarah, who tolerates me for some unknown reason. We have no kids, but we have several pets (see "My Pets" below). I am a graduate from UAH. I received a degree in Philosophy with Astrophysics (meaning a minor in astrophysics along with several extra classes in both departments to help bring the two together) and my general area of interest is epistemology.
I am a Gemini. I act like one, but I don't exactly believe in horoscopes. I am notoriously "double sided" about everything, even when I am fairly clear what the real answer is. I tell people have a second voice in my head that helps to watch out for me. This is true. It is something of a more serious version of my normal consciousness voice.
I regulary flip a coin to make a decision. It has traditionally been a 1977 penny. Now, however, I favor nickels.
I say "heh" too much.
While I am absolute sure I am me, I realize I say this with a language that I have very little to do with and that was largely crafted and handed to me, so it is anybody's guess.
As a child I was told what toys to play with by a television set and my choices were limited by poverty. In some ways, this has made me fascinated with the idea of just doing my own thing and not worrying about it.
My chief hobby is reading. I read a lot of sci-fi (but not really fantasy), as well as underground fiction. Philip K Dick, Chuck Palahniuk, Carlton Mellick III and Neal Stephenson are probably my top four right now. I also dig the heck out of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Bradbury, Howard Philips Lovecraft, Christopher Moore, JRR Tolkien, and E.L. Doctorow just to get the list started. My chief reading interest is the novel (or, well, actually the "romance" though this term has went haywire lately).
I tend to be a book addict. Not just in the reading sense, but in the whole owning and collecting and just searching for sense. This has cost me and the wife too much money, and for that I apologize. But you should see my library.
My goals are to either own my own bookstore or to work in a library. Either way, I want to grad school it with a focus on Library Science. I want to own a house and a personal library (for me, not for grubby handed people). I don't know where I want to live, but I kind of want to try the whole ex-patriate thing a little. But probably never well, because I don't think I want to try it that much. And, well, I figure that I should stay in state to help out where I can.
Besides UAH, I also attended a junior college called Jefferson Davis Community College. The second best part about that was the friends I made. I hang out with none of them now, except online, but still. The best thing was that one of those friends suggested UAH. This led me to Sarah. Good stuff.
I write poetry, though rarely at the moment. I play videogames about once a month. I am generally nonchalant about pornography one way or another. Some of it is neat. The current general trends towards violence justifies too many 1960s-70s stereotypes and makes me sad. I suppose it is something like anti-irony when things grow to become exactly what you expect despite not actually being what you expect at the beginning.
I am trying to play [pen and paper] RPGs more often, though am having little luck with it. Here's to hoping. I have a huge number of ideas abut little follow-through. I assume this says bad things about me as a human being, but really I doubt it does.
I smoke a pipe, though not overly often. I drink, mostly vodka and gin, but only about once a month.
I apparently write random autobiographies.
I also like to write RPGs. I have also tried some short stories, which will be my next main focus. Maybe even there is a kids book or two in me. Time will tell.
I have one tattoo right now, a spiral on my right arm. I want to get a couple more spirals and then have them build into a labyrinth, partially in tribute to House of Leaves. This takes money. That hurts more than pain.
I am allergic to sunlight, though not as bad as some. Enough to wreck a week after a sunburn, though. I am allergic to some pollen, so I get sniffles kind of regularly in early spring.
I have a fear of storms. Sort of. It comes and goes, but used to be worse. I have af fear of stinging insects linked to when I was stung a lot as a kid (I knocked a nest of hornets down when I wrecked into a tree with my bike). It also comes and goes, but has largely faded. I have a few general fears besides, but most only lightly show up every now and then. I have pretty much conquered my fear of heights, any fear I have had of the dark, fears of any wild animals. I am annoyed by enclosed spaces and crowds, but not afraid of them. I have this weird fear meets fascination thing with mazes and masks, but that does not quite count. I'm moderately phobia-less.
I don't shop at Wal-Mart, Target or Starbucks (18 months and counting) anymore, because I detest the "Fast Food" mentality of treat your workers like crap. I am editing out fast food type establishments in general. And Microsoft treats their workers pretty good, so that's cool, I just can't stand their products.
I am a Linux geek. I love (k)Ubuntu and recommend it to everyone. While there are some acts of awesome to be had on a Windows PC, the sheer metric ton of bullcrap tends to balance this far, far in the favor of Linux. At least try out Mac if you think Linux is too hard (and if you think Linux is too hard for the average user, try out an Ubuntu Live DVD and stop listening to the 1999 era Microsoft advertisements, I think you will be surprised).
I was born May 30, 1977. Flatrock, Alabama (south, as opposed to the one up here closer to Huntsville). I attended public school, and did generally well. For a good deal of my life I wanted to be an agricultural scientist of some sort. I have now dropped that.
My parents are Charles and Barbara Bolden. I have an older sister, named Donna. I have an older brother named David and another named Danny. I have a younger, adopted brother named Shawn. I love them all. I also have a series of nieces and nephews: Jake, Alicia, Justin, Jonathan, Samantha, Bri, Zack and Hadyn. I don't think I forgot any. Being married, I also have in-laws. Heh, you know who you are.
With the exception of Sarah, I have had only a couple of loves in my life and they ended poorly, and that's enough of that.
This is just to give you an idea of the assorted menagerie that we have had over the past four years (partially just to show how weird I name them). A good number of them are deceased, now. After we watched our rats and hamsters grow old over a couple/three years, we decided that we will proabably not keep any more small pets. As it is, this list is creepily filled with the dead and a couple longer lived ones. I would say "heh", but that's kind of sad....
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