Tell us something about yourself

[ThaBenMan]

My name is Ben, I'm 23 and I live in the United State of Maine (the very north-east).

As long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a professional artist. I loved to draw, and I went to college majoring in Studio Art. I grew sick of it and dropped out (twice, actually). I don't even like to draw for fun in my free time anymore, I'm not sure why. I've pretty much given up on my dream, and now I'm just kind of drifting aimlessly through shitty jobs in retail.

I still live with my mother and her boyfriend. I feel kind of trapped because I don't make enough money to have my own place, and I also feel like I need to stay to take care of my mom. She and her boyfriend are rather old and both are alcoholics (although they are sober now and have been for a good while). Neither she nor her boyfriend have jobs, so I need to help them out financially quite often. She has also told me repeatedly how emotionally stabilizing my presence is to her.

I have a sister who is a year older than I am. She just recently graduated with a degree in Veterinary Technology.

I have never had a girlfriend - I blame this on my unrealistically high standards. I fell in love with a girl in my high school class, and I still am somewhat in love with her I think, although she does not reciprocate the feelings.

Despite all of the rather depressing things I have described, I am pretty happy most of the time.

Thanks for allowing me to have an impromptu therapy session, and sorry for weirding anybody out.

EDIT: Gosh, looking back at what I wrote, I totally should not have written most of that. I'm really sorry guys.

 

[CSherman]

It's my birthday :]

 

[Logan Westbrook]

It's my birthday :]

Happy Birthday - Have e-cake

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

My name is Lauren, and I'm from Ohio (the WORST state to live in right now, honestly). I'm 19 but I've always been mentally ahead of my age group. I'm a Theatre: Acting/Directing and Asian Studies major with a minor in Japanese Language. Yeah, I'm aware that's a lot. I also write- I'm currently trying to find an agent for publishing because I finally finished the novel I've been working on for four years. Words are my specialty: I pick up languages quickly, public speaking happens nearly every day for me, and I read and write a lot.
I work for Gamestop and have since June of 2006. I only get about 10 hours a week, but I have fun and that's what is more important to me. I don't think I could tolerate working a full-time job if I hated it it, even if I did make a lot more money.
I was supposed to get married before my Freshman year of college to my high school sweetheart, but things didn't really go as planned. We dated on and off for just about four years and just recently put our feet down and said we weren't doing it anymore. He's still my best friend, we just don't randomly start making out anymore when left alone, lol. Even though he's my best friend, he's sort of set the standard for me as to who I date and what I expect out of a relationship- some good things, some bad. I'm still recovering, so I'm sort of doing this floaty thing with relationships- whatever happens, happens.

 

[birdygirl]

My name is Lauren, and I'm from Ohio (the WORST state to live in right now, honestly). I'm 19 but I've always been mentally ahead of my age group. I'm a Theatre: Acting/Directing and Asian Studies major with a minor in Japanese Language. Yeah, I'm aware that's a lot. I also write- I'm currently trying to find an agent for publishing because I finally finished the novel I've been working on for four years. Words are my specialty: I pick up languages quickly, public speaking happens nearly every day for me, and I read and write a lot.
I work for Gamestop and have since June of 2006. I only get about 10 hours a week, but I have fun and that's what is more important to me. I don't think I could tolerate working a full-time job if I hated it it, even if I did make a lot more money.
I was supposed to get married before my Freshman year of college to my high school sweetheart, but things didn't really go as planned. We dated on and off for just about four years and just recently put our feet down and said we weren't doing it anymore. He's still my best friend, we just don't randomly start making out anymore when left alone, lol. Even though he's my best friend, he's sort of set the standard for me as to who I date and what I expect out of a relationship- some good things, some bad. I'm still recovering, so I'm sort of doing this floaty thing with relationships- whatever happens, happens.

Wow, besides the gamestop thing, we have alot in common--

Question: how the crap can you stand to work at Gamestop? I cannot even go in that store without some strange person trying to hit on me, what is it like to work there? Also, how do you feel about all the Penny Arcade bashing of GS?

 

[Necrohydra]

I work for Gamestop and have since June of 2006. I only get about 10 hours a week, but I have fun and that's what is more important to me. I don't think I could tolerate working a full-time job if I hated it it, even if I did make a lot more money.

I couldn't agree with this more, but sometimes appearances can be deceiving. Some friends of mine got jobs with places they thought seemed awesome and what they wanted at first, then realized after working there for a bit they hated it. And it's not always easy to pick up and find a new job so soon after accepting a previous position. Doesn't look good on a resume if you indicate you've hopped from job to job for the past few months.

I suppose I'm quite lucky I've found a job where I *gasp* ENJOY going to work everyday.

 

[s0denone]

I once had sexual intercourse with Virgin Mary. You know they say she was a virgin when she had Jesus? All a lie.

In fact, she did seem to get pregnant shortly after our "befriending"...


-- On another note, I like ladies with an actual ass, not that flat ass and no hips. I'm not talking women with huge asses, I just want a well-rounded one, now that's sexy as fucking hell.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

Wow, besides the gamestop thing, we have alot in common--

Question: how the crap can you stand to work at Gamestop? I cannot even go in that store without some strange person trying to hit on me, what is it like to work there? Also, how do you feel about all the Penny Arcade bashing of GS?

I couldn't agree more half of the time, honestly. I don't read Penny Arcade a whole lot but they're not the only ones to bash it. It's the people I work with that make me like it. As for people hitting on me, that happens a hell of a lot too. For the most part, I either polite push them in another direction. Or, if they're blunt, I get equally as blunt. Makes for funny stories. My first day back at my current store after college, I had a guy hitting on me (and they get really presumptuous, making for high-quality entertainment):
Him: "I'll bet you have a boy, huh?"
Me: "Actually no, I'm a lesbian." (I'm bisexual, but currently dating a girl)
Him: (after a look of pure amazement) "Have you ever tried guys?"
Me: "Of course I have."
Him: "But you ain't tried me."
Me: "And I don't intend to."
Him (walks away)

I sort of enjoy poking holes in egos. The guys in Toledo don't really try to be smooth. Half of the time they don't even know my name, and they never tell me theirs. I sort of get the general Quagmire attitude ("Hello lips, legs, breasts, and ass!") so I treat them with the same indignity they treat me, then retell the stories later. lol

As for working there, and whether the job sucks or not, I'm not allowed to talk about it actually. Most wouldn't bother with that rule, but with my luck, I'd get called on it. We're all supposed to suck it up and say "Yeah! Working there's wonderful!" *plasters fake smile on*

 

[Ricknub]

- Rick, hence the username. I actually got it many years ago when I was on Ventrilo, and my Counter-Strike teammates, who apparently thought I was afk or something, decided to talk about how bad I was. It was all very tragic. With the help of some therapy, though, I've learned to deal with it, and have even accepted it as a part of my identity.

- 23, one year removed from college. I'm a displaced Philadelphian who misses family, and misses being able to watch Phillies baseball on a nightly basis. The cheap tickets were also nice. (The Red Sox charge way to much to watch baseball in a crappy stadium.) Oddly enough, I now live about 5 blocks away from one of those guys I used to play CS with (he also relocated to Boston). It's a small world sometimes.

- My job search was a slightly amusing one. My girlfriend was looking for a job in a non-profit area, ideally working for a museum, library, or something to that effect. I was looking for a media job (I wanted to go into media research, but doing production work at a television or radio station would have been fine, too). She ended up getting a job at one of the largest public television organizations in the country, and I ended up getting a job at a university social work library. Oddly enough, at her job, she is doing work in the fundraising department, and I'm working with digital media and computers at my position.

That's about it. Well, there's more, but I think this is enough. Go Phillies.

 

[Blayze]

Paul. Twenty-two. Red-haired. Single. Happy.

As for something specific, I had jaundice as a baby. These days, I have an inside joke with myself where I blame the fact that the hospital staff stuck me under a lightbulb or whatever to cure me for everything related to my eyes and light (Especially when going to the dentist, which is half of the reason why I hate going).

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[Easykill]

Since I don't believe in you being prettier, its funny that the only difference between the two of us should be two letters in the names of our home countries.

Nope, he made a mistake. He's calling YOU Australian, his profile says he's Canadian.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

I was under the impression that most Americans immediately associate Austria with Arnold Schwarzenegger (Yeah, I'm not too sure of the spelling there and I'm too lazy to pull up IMDB on another tab. I admit spelling defeat).
But yes, I certainly was aware of the difference. Yet somehow, your statement that 50% of people will think of Australia instead of Austria doesn't surprise me in the slightest. People are stupid. (Wizard's First Rule, yay! If you get that reference, you're my new best friend- none of my current friends know what I'm talking about when I say "Wizard's First Rule," and it bothers me).
(I think I'm done writing in parentheses )

 

[Alphavillain]

Me well, I seem to be leet right now. Oooo! Looky at my post count! Me so 1337!! Take that god! Haha!

Anywho, I dedicated this thread for everyone to tell us something about themselves so that we, the Escapist, can become a big huggy family.

To start off, I can't watch porn. Being a film student and a lover of the movies, if ever I did see it, I would constantly be thinking to myself how much the lighting is shit, or that the camera angle is pathetic for this situation or how bad the acting is. It's really odd, but I can't help it. So I never watch it because of that.

How about that to break the ice!

Imagine a Tarkovsky porn film. Or not. There are plenty of bad films without sex scenes. And "The Silence" by Bergman, which is a good film, but with sex scenes. (Also see any French art film made in the last thirty years.) Go figure.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

Imagine a Tarkovsky porn film. Or not. There are plenty of bad films without sex scenes. And "The Silence" by Bergman, which is a good film, but with sex scenes. (Also see any French art film made in the last thirty years.) Go figure.

"The Dreamers," enough said. That was actually released in the US too and isn't difficult to find; surprising for a French art film.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's actually correct that way, congratulations.

Also Darth Mobius is right, there are people who know the difference and our current political situation as well, but then again those are just the few exceptions to prove the rule (It was an rather ineffective statement for me to make on this forum, considering that the level of intelligence here is much, much higher than in the rest of the internet).

SCORE! My innate ability to spell things wins again! I thought I may have gotten it when Firefox didn't underline it in red, but it was also possible that Firefox spell checker didn't even know what to make of that jumble of letters, lol.
Random rant from work... why the hell are people still buying the original Xbox? Seriously. I mean, even if you're poor and can't afford the 360, go for PS2 instead because Sony's dumb and still makes games for it. Original Xbox? We moved all the games to Used, and the selection's very picked over. I refuse to accept an excuse for buying a system that's pretty much dead and buried. End rant.
Begin new rant. Gamer girls are not that much of a rarity anymore. Yes we're here, yes we have tits. Get over it and move on with your life. >.<