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Created on 2002-04-08 03:42:00 (#521302), last updated 2009-07-09
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Basic Info| Name: | John |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1969-09-12 |
| Location: | London, United Kingdom |
| Website: | Irrepressible Events |
Bio"When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. When being, just be."
So what to say?
I'm 40 next birthday. I don't remember thinking I'd be forty when I was a kid. I worked out that what age I was going to be in 2000AD because that seemed significant then, but what came after it wasn't. Maybe that's the Cold War for you.
I live in London. Having spent my 20s sure that I'd never move here. I'm not not sure I'll ever leave. I work in the centre of London as an IT trainer at a university and live out in the east, allowing me to claim to be in Outer London or Essex depending on who I'm trying to impress.
For fun I go rock climbing and help run a club night once a month, and this year I'm running a cabaret in Soho. I sometimes worry that I'm turning into the black sheep of the family.
I love traveling around London: having lived in Brighton for 7 years I really appreciate London Transport, even the night buses. I love that I've almost seen a stand up fight about the best way to make salad dressing at 4am and that at King's Cross you can have parallel platforms, one ostensibly running North-South and the other East-West. I think Harry Beck was a genius. I love maps too; they're ways of imagining places I'd like to be.
I love language; I consider it to be the swingset and slide that my imagination dips and dives through, a playground that keeps me forever young. Tell me a new word and I'll be your friend. Buy me a dictionary of obscurity and you might never get rid of me.
I knew what an interrobang was when I was 12.
I teach IT because I love seeing the joy in someone's eye when they get it, no matter what "it" is. I write because I want to believe that other people can see the world with the same happiness that I can, and I dance because sometimes the shaman who lives inside my heart bursts out and takes over, thumping his feet at a high BPM.
I can't write poetry.
I enjoy life, having taken control of who I am and what I want to be and where I want to live a few years ago, and having seen nothing but good come out of the decision to do so. I enjoy my friends because they challenge me and fulfil me and remind me of why this is a fantastic world.
Who are you?
So what to say?
I'm 40 next birthday. I don't remember thinking I'd be forty when I was a kid. I worked out that what age I was going to be in 2000AD because that seemed significant then, but what came after it wasn't. Maybe that's the Cold War for you.
I live in London. Having spent my 20s sure that I'd never move here. I'm not not sure I'll ever leave. I work in the centre of London as an IT trainer at a university and live out in the east, allowing me to claim to be in Outer London or Essex depending on who I'm trying to impress.
For fun I go rock climbing and help run a club night once a month, and this year I'm running a cabaret in Soho. I sometimes worry that I'm turning into the black sheep of the family.
I love traveling around London: having lived in Brighton for 7 years I really appreciate London Transport, even the night buses. I love that I've almost seen a stand up fight about the best way to make salad dressing at 4am and that at King's Cross you can have parallel platforms, one ostensibly running North-South and the other East-West. I think Harry Beck was a genius. I love maps too; they're ways of imagining places I'd like to be.
I love language; I consider it to be the swingset and slide that my imagination dips and dives through, a playground that keeps me forever young. Tell me a new word and I'll be your friend. Buy me a dictionary of obscurity and you might never get rid of me.
I knew what an interrobang was when I was 12.
I teach IT because I love seeing the joy in someone's eye when they get it, no matter what "it" is. I write because I want to believe that other people can see the world with the same happiness that I can, and I dance because sometimes the shaman who lives inside my heart bursts out and takes over, thumping his feet at a high BPM.
I can't write poetry.
I enjoy life, having taken control of who I am and what I want to be and where I want to live a few years ago, and having seen nothing but good come out of the decision to do so. I enjoy my friends because they challenge me and fulfil me and remind me of why this is a fantastic world.
Who are you?
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aikido, akira kurosawa, altered states of consciousness, ars magica, blue cheese, board games, buffy the vampire slayer, china mieville, company of friends, computers, dancing, defining postmodernism, drinking whiskey, eggshell boats, fantasy, fencing, friends, games, glowsticks, grand design, history, jorane, kate bush, kinesthetics, lrp, masks, medieval period, neal stephenson, neil gaiman, new world order games, nobilis, nwo, people-watching, phillip pullman, planet angel, punchdrunk, quaesitors, reading about other worlds, references, role-playing, roleplaying, roleplaying games, science fiction, seeing inside people's lives, sharon kay penman, shropshire, spoonsize boys, stonehenge tribunal, talking to myself, telling stories, theatre, they might be giants, tim powers, tori amos, tptmnbn, trance, treasure type o, unknown armies, visualising shapes, walking in slow motion, whirl-y-gig, wit, writing, yes minister
Schools:
Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College - Telford, England - Shropshire, United Kingdom (1981 - 1988)Manchester Metropolitan University - Manchester, England - Greater Manchester, United Kingdom (1988 - 1994)
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