I was born the first of March in Milford Memorial in, go figure, Milford, Delaware. More affectionately known as Lower Slower Delaware. It was a Leap Year. Kinda glad I wasn't a day early.

They said I was smart, but I'd be more likely to say that I was observant. It's really more of a matter of shutting the hell up and paying attention, a skill many teenagers tend to lack. I studied Marine and Aquatic Science all through grade school. This included marine biology, botany, ecology and of course fresh water biology, botany, ecology, a good deal of oceanography, and other bizarre things such as experimental ecology and fundamental animal behavior. Okay, what all this means is I wandered around marshes labelling fiddler crabs and trying not to drown while measuring wave frequency. Any excuse to be outside and in the water, really. Wanted to join the Navy and go to the Academy, but between a compacted spine (ie medical disqualification) and my severe ethical objection to disection, that field was out.

In my Junior year of high school I got into politics. I thought Environmental Law or Policy would be a nifty alternative to actual Marine Studies. Studied one summer at Georgetown, skipped my senior year to go to college at Clarkson University. Me at an engineering school is much like an otter in the desert. Struggled through two years. Fled in panic to Buffalo. Law is evil, and don't even get me started on the practice of politics. I did, however, manage to firment my rather extreme hockey fetish while I was in the North Country. Mmmm hockey.

After a move to Buffalo I tried SUNYB but my health said otherwise. This would be the point where I started working full time in the computer field. Took me eight years to correct THAT error and get back into Admin work. I managed to transfer out all of my Gen-Ed requirements, so five years and a huge move later I went back to school to finish my degree. NOT politics, as politics makes me ill. I finished my degree in Religious Studies in the fall of 2003. No worries, most people ask how in hell that happened. It makes more sense if you get to know me. I started graduate school for a Masters of Arts in Applied Theology, but am on an, um, "indefinite hiatus" after serious depression and a theft kinda made life a living hell. But I can at least skillfully ruin any perfectly nice conversation with ease.

Specifics? I moved from Long Neck, Delaware to Potsdam, New York, when I was seventeen, Buffalo two years later, Long Island three years after that, and fled to Portland, Oregon, six months later. I spent nine years in Portland before circumstance landed me back in Lower Slower Delaware. It took about four months to give up finding a job there so I shuffled northward to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the home of some college friends. I'm here now, and go figure, it didn't take four months to find work. And I'm sure Murphy is laughing his ass off and reviewing his Laws as I now work for... the Navy =P If those weren't the specifics you were interested in well, hehe, sorry but get over it.

That's better. I'll go away now.