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# I have an abnormal sleep schedule. # I'm an abject workaholic, preferring hermithood to the city, yet I'm stuck there. # I've never had the luxury of reading Thoreau, but I've been in love with his idea of "getting at the marrow of life" by going out into the Woods ever since I first heard of him in 10th grade. # I believe that there's more to life than just work, yet I've yet been able to find it. # The few times I've visited the "wilderness" (state parks) I found myself gazing off into the majestic peaks in awe and joy. # I often stare off absent-mindedly. # I get fixated and fascinated by seemingly random, possibly trivial things. # I'm currently unofficially engaged to a brilliant biochemist-to-be, who's still not yet done with his undergrad career. # I'm a college drop out. # Though everyone assumed this of me, I didn't drop out to pull off a Bill Gates. # I dropped out because everywhere I went, I'd see a character I'd started devising for an urban fantasy novel. # I'm writing. # But, I'm also programming. # And I'm also working on an animated film noir indie all by myself -- script, animation and art, music... # I dropped out because I got sick of academic politics... # And, because I'm in love with my writing. # Though I should have graduated summa cum laude, the college would not let me graduate because I refused to stoop down to accept my "share" of the incumbents' corruption. # I explained my reasons for dropping out (because of my writing) to my college, in writing, as a petition that was probably never read. # I once wanted to get a doctorate in physics and pull off the next Maria Goeppert Mayer or become some industry tycoon of quantum computers and algorithms. # I probably had ADD and other learning problems in high school. In my senior year, I started "skipping school" so that I could read and learn on my own. As a result, I mastered calculus, vector calculus, and linear algebra in half a year. # I want to get assimilated by the Borg. I fear the hive-mind, the dominance of the queen, losing my individuality, yet the lure of pure productivity supercedes all that. # I am myself.
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