age: 26 (Jul 11, 1985)
MEMBER SINCE: November 2004
occupation: Student, college radio DJ and music director, waiter. I think I have too many jobs.
body mods: none
stats: scrawny white boy
i lost my virginity: because I'm a godless heathen.
makes me sad: George Bush. Intellectual property laws. The Religious Right. Dead fish. Pseudo-neoconservatives (see George Bush), Charlotte.
fantasy: Becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or dropping out and moving to a private island in the South Pacific. I'm flexible.
into: Politics, hot tea, entheogens, electronics, college radio (www.wknc.org), photography, free culture, aquariums. Strange that almost all of my major interests were picked up within the last year.
makes me happy: Compressed, downloadable media. College radio. My Buick. Good food. Tropical fish. Libertarianism (as a philosophy, not a political party), Women. New hobbies. Open-mindedness.
This semester has been one of those cripplingly busy ones where no matter what high-priority thing you're working on, you can't stop thinking about the other eighteen more important things that you should be doing and you end up so stressed out that nothing ends up getting accomplished.
Despite this, things have been good.
I have my very own apartment now. No more roommates. I clean up my own messes, get to drink all of the beer that I buy, eat all the food I make, and can spend the whole day in my underwear if I feel like it. Also I'm two blocks from campus. I'd live here forever if I wasn't hell-bent on leaving the city/state/country when I graduate in May. The plan at this point is to go to Japan for a year or two. This is pretty exciting.
I never got around to posting any pictures from India. Here are some of them:
For context and an additional 450 or so shots, go here
Also if you are good at photo editing and have a lot of time on your hands and want to make any of these look more awesome, let me know and I'll send you the .RAW files.
Here are some other things that have been happening:
Every year, student groups at NC State get together and participate in the "Shack-a-Thon", a Habitat for Humanity project where each group builds a shack in a 15x15 space on the brickyard out of scrap wood and proceeds to live in it 24 hours a day for a week while panhandling for donations. All of the money goes to Habitat and the group with the most money wins free wood the next year. WKNC decided to participate for the first time this year, and we came up with by far the most attention-grabbing dwelling in Shack-a-Thon history:
If you stepped on the big "eject" button at the bottom, the tape deck opened on a set of counterweighted pulleys to allow entrance
That headphone jack on the left was functional and tuned to 88.1, by...
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