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"Born to a Republican Feminist and a NASA Administrator with a sense of humour, Catalyst began life as he was destined to live it... improbably."
So, uh, hi. I'm just short of 34, Aspie, married, five kids (stepchildren, but for the most part the distinction is lost on me), four of which have moved out and the last I have expressly forbidden to turn 16 next week (I think she's planning to defy me on this one). One grandchild with another due next month.
Computer geek. I had expected to be a writer, a photographer, or an actor, but reality set in and I ended up working in a video store. This lasted several years until I got a job doing help desk work and suddenly discovered that there was a career path here. I now do application monitoring and support for a major bank, on the graveyard shift.
Have been married for four years, and miraculously have broken the pattern of driving women insane. This one actually knew going in that I was an Aspie, and we've adjusted to each other fairly well. The five kids turned out to be a bonus, rather than a burden. Well, more bonus than burden, at any rate. Nothing has prepared me for the youngest become a teenager, though.
Let's see... what else.... still do photography (usually figure studies or portraiture). I write, but the problem is that I'm too busy designing the sci-fi world and not busy enough writing plot. I really should do a comic, but I cannot draw at all and have never found anyone who could. Haven't done acting in an epoch, and my singing was recently recorded for use in secret prisons and interrogation centers around the world.
Bought the perfect house two years ago... seven acres of land, my own riverbank, and you can't even see the road from my house. Complete solitude. On a clear night, you can see the Milky Way in more detail than I knew was possible.
Pagan, specifically Wiccan, and an activist. My wife is the Chair of an Interfaith Church, and we support various Pagan non-profits on the US East Coast.
Uhm... that's it, I guess.
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"And if I had the choice, I'd take the voice I got, 'cause it was hard to find..."
--Johnette Napolitano
28 Nov 2006, 4:50 am
