There is a lot that I can write for this section and I will, just you see. However, I think I'll give you a brief rundown before I do so. If you want to continue, then do so, if you do not, then don't. No love lost. Without further ado, here we go:

Brevity:

My name is James and I was born several years ago in a hospital that no longer exists. I live in Central Florida in a small town that I have not a speck of love for and work at a job that I cannot stand. I am a writer, a reader, and an overall boring person. That is as brief as it is going to get, time for the rest of it. What comes next may not interest you, but I do not care, I am writing it to write it and that is all. So, once again, without further ado, here we go.

Home:

As I said before, I hail from Florida. I was born here in a hospital that was demolished some years ago and I have lived here for twenty of my twenty one years of life. The missing year was spent in Tennessee and I would be lying if I said it was not a good year, in fact it was a very good one. I somehow enjoyed living there, much more than I enjoy living in Florida actually. If you haven't guessed already, or if you don't know me at all, I do not like it here. The education system, the people, the heat, the weather, and the beach, I dislike them all. Perhaps it is because we get a wide selection of the worst the US has to offer when it comes to our citizens, perhaps not. Perhaps I am just negative. Doesn't really matter, I ache for the day I am able to escape from this humid hell.

Work:

I work for The Pantry Inc., a company that owns convenience stores throughout the South East, as an assistant manager. From the day I put in my application I knew that it was a mistake, I have no love for people, especially customers, but it has been nearly three years since I was hired. No turning back now. As you may well tell by now, and this is a theme you will come to recognize, I dislike my job. I dislike it with a fiery passion, but I love money and obviously need it, so here we are. I have the job in the first place, because I decided, after some convincing, that I should take a break before going back to school. That did not work out for me as I am still not in school. I was supposed to go this fall, but I procrastinate, so it did not work out for me. I plan on going this spring and majoring in English.

Music:

Music is a major part of my life and always has been. I can't play an instrument, nor can I sing, but that does not hinder my enjoyment of it in the slightest. Despite a few unfortunate bumps along the way, I am a fan of rock, but not all of it. I started out listening to what I could hear on the radio and this was after my return to Florida and was lucky enough to have not only one, but two rock stations (Tennessee had none.). Since then my tastes in music has changed. I started out with the mainstream and then moved on to other things until eventually I came up with the eclectic library I have now. I love music with a different sound to it and I'll listen to it no matter who does it, it is a sort of weakness. Most of all I enjoy Third Wave Ska and Classic Rock. The love of Classic Rock comes from my mom, who passed that taste of music on to me.

Movies:

I watch a lot of movies or at least have them playing while I am doing other things and quite enjoy them. I rent only, as I never go to theaters, the last time being over two years ago when I watched Constantine opening day. There are a lot of things I like about movies, but that doesn't really help all that much, so I have taken to giving a list of the things I do not like. It is relatively short, but I am relatively lazy.

• Comedies that rely on stupidity instead of actual humor. Most Will Farrel movies take this premise to heart and Napoleon Dynamite should get an award for it.
• Horror movies that rely on gore instead of horror. Gore is not, and will never be, horror. Unfortunately the gore is horror trend seems to be all the rage.
• B movies, well... not really, I am referring to those movies that look as though they were shot with a camcorder and have a script that was likely written by a monkey on crack. I can't stand them.
• Book adaptations are the biggest. They are horrible, with most going off on its own tangent, changing characters, names, and entire parts of the property.

Television:

I do not watch all that much television these days, just nothing on that interests me. There are shows that I do watch, but none of them are on the air at the moment, so I am watching nothing. It has been some time since I actually bothered watching the news, I decided a while back that there was little reason in watching it and so I don't. I have just started getting into anime, which I include in this section even though I watch it on my computer. Some of the shows I tune into:

• Heroes
• Californication
• Chuck
• Bleach
• Code Geass
• Rurouni Kenshin
• Wolf's Rain

Most of the other shows I watch or have watched previously have all been cancelled and most of those were cancelled well before their time. Firefly, Surface, and Carnivale all serve as good examples of the latter.

Writing:

I have a great interest in writing, as you may able to tell by now as I doubt that many people would attempt to write this much in their about section. Writing has been a passion of mine since I was old enough to put a pencil or pen to paper and form words and I have always held it as my chosen profession. Of course, that desire to make a living with my writing wavers from time to time, it all depends on my mood and what is going on in my life at the time.

Through late '06 and until early '08 I had an extreme case of writer's block. I was unable to sit down and come up with much of anything no matter how hard I tried. Fortunately throughout that time I never stopped coming up with ideas and that gave me a healthy archive for when I started writing again. I should probably say now that I hate most of my writing and that it is not an opinion that is commonly agreed upon. People seem to like my work even if I find it so horrible that I can't even read through it once in order to properly edit it.

I am working on five projects now:

• A novel by the name of City of Lights that is progressing slowly thanks to all of the other stuff I am working on.
• A project for the board named Against Inevitability that is also progressing slowly thanks to everything else.
• A series of short stories, the first of which I have just completed. I enjoy writing it very much, even if I do not see anything happening with them.
• A new, novel-length idea that I was not planning on writing at all, it just happened and I am mainly happy with it.
• Another novel-length idea that is mired in development.

Reading:

Ah, reading, such a wonderful hobby. I discovered R.A. Salvatore my junior year of high school I have been hooked on fantasy. That year and most of the next was consumed in the fires of The Forgotten Realms and Bob's books. After I had finished his I moved on to other waters, Gemmel, Feist, Martin, Bakker, Erikson! The seas were rich! My horizons have continued to expand, I still ply the waters of the Fantasy genre, but occasionally I make expeditions into other genres, the classics, sci-fi, and humor! My journey has lasted only four years and there are many more to go, new lands to discover and explore, old trails to be tread anew, familiar waters to be sailed. Reading is a hobby, a journey, one that I hope never ends.

Chat:

I spend a lot of time in chat, perhaps too much, but what can I say? It is a time consuming addiction from hell. I started with RASChat, the good ol' Java program that everyone hated before Yuku came along and proved that things could be worse. I moved on to IRC on the Hall of Worlds, then to MSN and Yahoo when the pickings became slim in both. Whichever program, whichever board, chat has become an integral part of my day.

Webcomics:

Webcomics are a beloved interest for me, ever since my first introduction to them I have searched them out, slowly adding more and more to my reading list. They bring humor to my day, which I am very appreciative of. In the left column there is a section labeled webcomics, which contains most of the webcomics I visit on a daily basis. The list is quite small compared to its former glory, but I have been forced, with much grief, to remove those comics that no longer update. I have also lost a few under other circumstances. Among the list that I pointed out earlier, Looking For Group, Least I Could Do (both LFG and LICD are done by Ryan Sohmer and Lars DeSouza), Something Positive, and Questionable Content take top honors. I will readily give recommendations to those who ask (and have done so with the list) and am more than willing to accept any recommendations others have to offer.

Interests:

I have always had a strange interest in design, not fashion mind you, just design. I delight in creating and designing worksheets and forms for work and will not hesitate to sit down and create a webpage on a whim, though my knowledge of xhtml is limited and such creations are rather plain. Perhaps it is why I have spent so much time on this profile, not truly design, but creation nonetheless.

That is it for now, I do realize that there is quite a bit here that was in the original, but I am tired and can barely see, so it will have to wait.