Day 01 - Introduce Yourself
Before I start, I'd like to apologize to everyone for being a few days late. I've agreed to follow this Livejoural writing exercise with lilitusama
My name is Scott. Depending on which forum/website I go to, I am known as Nevian or Vhalidictes. The former name I don't use much any more, partly due to memories and partly due to the fact it's an actual eastern european name and therefore shows up rather more than other independently-invented names.
Roman-era fire demons are somewhat more uncommon, so I've been sticking with Vhalidictes lately.
I'm average height and weight, with light brown hair and hazel eyes that seem interesting at first glance, but aren't. I wear my hair too short to have any identifiable style ("I brush it back and hope for the best" I told my hairdresser). Not because I fear being accidentally trendy, but more because it's partially wavy (but not completely) and gets to be an insane mess if I try to style it in any way.
I wear glasses. I used to wear hard contacts, but I stopped bothering since all of my friends would see me as wearing glasses even when I wasn't.
I'm just intelligent enough to realize how stupid I am. (IQ 130, for the hard number). Every so often, I get a flash of brilliance. This has been useful exactly once during working time. Still waiting on a playtime epiphany.
What makes me stand out physically is my varied and over-exaggerated expressions. I don't know what any of them look like, but I hear they are something to see.
Mentally, I see things differently than most. I keep a positive attitude by maintaining a deep pessimism. It's somewhat hard to describe, so I'll give an example (the same one I
gave at work one time):
Normal Person: Darn it, I'm late getting to a friend's house. This sucks and I'm unhappy!
Scott Person: I got to my friend's house later than I would like, but I expected to get a ticket, accidentally run over a pedestrian, blow out a tire, and have an unspecified engine failure leading to a 6-car accident on the way here before running out of gas. None of that happened, so I'm really happy!
The trick is to comprehend how badly things could possibly go and then compare that to the current situation. In most cases Murphy's Law doesn't get applied to the extent it could, so instead of having bad days, I have small bits of bad in a otherwise great day. The silver lining is out there!
As for personal life, it's really beyond any of my wildest dreams. I'm married to the best woman in the world, my in-laws are wonderful, interesting, and understanding people, and my own family has mellowed out in recent years. Hopefully someday soon I'll be a father, and although I'm not at all ready for that, no one really can be "ready" for something they haven't done yet.
This LJ posting thing is more fun than I thought! I'm not sure about whether to "catch up" or not, but for now I'll keep the posts to one a day.
My name is Scott. Depending on which forum/website I go to, I am known as Nevian or Vhalidictes. The former name I don't use much any more, partly due to memories and partly due to the fact it's an actual eastern european name and therefore shows up rather more than other independently-invented names.
Roman-era fire demons are somewhat more uncommon, so I've been sticking with Vhalidictes lately.
I'm average height and weight, with light brown hair and hazel eyes that seem interesting at first glance, but aren't. I wear my hair too short to have any identifiable style ("I brush it back and hope for the best" I told my hairdresser). Not because I fear being accidentally trendy, but more because it's partially wavy (but not completely) and gets to be an insane mess if I try to style it in any way.
I wear glasses. I used to wear hard contacts, but I stopped bothering since all of my friends would see me as wearing glasses even when I wasn't.
I'm just intelligent enough to realize how stupid I am. (IQ 130, for the hard number). Every so often, I get a flash of brilliance. This has been useful exactly once during working time. Still waiting on a playtime epiphany.
What makes me stand out physically is my varied and over-exaggerated expressions. I don't know what any of them look like, but I hear they are something to see.
Mentally, I see things differently than most. I keep a positive attitude by maintaining a deep pessimism. It's somewhat hard to describe, so I'll give an example (the same one I
gave at work one time):
Normal Person: Darn it, I'm late getting to a friend's house. This sucks and I'm unhappy!
Scott Person: I got to my friend's house later than I would like, but I expected to get a ticket, accidentally run over a pedestrian, blow out a tire, and have an unspecified engine failure leading to a 6-car accident on the way here before running out of gas. None of that happened, so I'm really happy!
The trick is to comprehend how badly things could possibly go and then compare that to the current situation. In most cases Murphy's Law doesn't get applied to the extent it could, so instead of having bad days, I have small bits of bad in a otherwise great day. The silver lining is out there!
As for personal life, it's really beyond any of my wildest dreams. I'm married to the best woman in the world, my in-laws are wonderful, interesting, and understanding people, and my own family has mellowed out in recent years. Hopefully someday soon I'll be a father, and although I'm not at all ready for that, no one really can be "ready" for something they haven't done yet.
This LJ posting thing is more fun than I thought! I'm not sure about whether to "catch up" or not, but for now I'll keep the posts to one a day.