I guess it is a good idea to say a few things about myself, since this is my first post. You already know a few things about me from my profile, like my age and what I\'m doing at this point in my life, but there are still a few mysteries to me. I like sports, but I'm not fanatical about any of them, though I am hooting' and hollerin' like a son-of-a-bitch now that the Cardinals are in the World-FUCKIN'-Series!!! Anyway, I like to play Daley-ball (backyard baseball with tennis balls at my buddy J Daley's house) and I hope to join a summer-league softball team or something sometime in the near future. Though I've never gotten around to it, I hope to one day write a book or become a small ime writer or something. Writing is something I hope to do a lot more of when I move out to Reno and take a few less college courses.
Oh yeah, I made the decision to move out to Reno after my girlfriend and I broke up... well, after the twentieth and last time we broke up, anyway. You see, a few weeks ago, my grandma (on my dad\'s side) passed away. She lived in a place called Paradise, CA. I found out she passed on Friday at about 7 and was on a plane out there at Saturday morning at 6. This was very sudden and, I am sad to say, something I hesitated about doing for a few reasons.See, I had only met her once, that I remember anyway, a couple of years ago. She was the nicest lady in the world to me for the two days I saw her. I wasn\'t sure, however, if that made me a candidate to take a six hour flight out there, especially since everybody was say I didn't need to come and that they didn't know what was going on anyway (my grandma wanted to be cremated and didn't want a funeral) or if I was obliged to do it, simply because she was my grandma. I was also more worried than I should have been about what my boss would say when I didn't show up at work the following Monday. I guess it shouldn't have been a tough decision, but, in the end, I made the right choice and went out there. So, while the details of the whole trip are a whole other story, when it was finally time to go, I didn't want to leave. It is beauti-fucking-ful out there; the weather is perfect, I love the mountains and the sage brush, and plus, my entire dad's side of the family is spread out that way between AZ, CA, and NV and I have never gotten to hang out with any of them for longer than two days at a time.
So, when the girlfriend who I''ve struggled on and off with for the last 2+ years says she can't EVER trust me again because I like to look at naked women on the computer and I have a pulse, i mean libido, and breaks up with me, I look at it as a blessing and a chance to do somehing different. So, to my cousins in Reno, Here I come! After talking to the UNR people and finding out my credits won\'t transfer for shit, I'll probably end up only stayying out there for a year and then coming back to St. Louis to graduate. That's good because it gives me a chance to test out my mountain legs for a while and make a decision about where I want to eventually settle, if I want to settle, after that. bored yet?
OkOk, I'll try to wrap this up for anyone who has made i this far. I do not have any pets or children. I honestly don't have time or patience for either of them right now. While I'm currently going to school to become a teacher, my plan is to stay in that business for about ten yers and then open up an alternative style school, one based more on outside of the classroom learning. We'll see how that goes. Other than that, I like to hang out and get drunk once in a while. I don't smoke pot, but I am all for legalizing it for each of the 9 million uses it has. One of my favorite subjects to read and to talk about is metaphysics and altered-state issues and philosophies. I really appreciate how entheogens have been used by men and women throughout history to give us terrific and terrifying insights into this mystery we live inside. Yeah, I also like reading stuff my socialist thinkers, like Zinn, Chomsky, and Gatto (the last one probably isn't really a socialist. Conspiracy theory stuff also blows my mind sometimes (I don't trust the government). Well, want to know anything else, just ask. I've definitely given enough information to allow for a wire tap on my ass!
Peace and Anarchy,
Ryan
Oh yeah, I made the decision to move out to Reno after my girlfriend and I broke up... well, after the twentieth and last time we broke up, anyway. You see, a few weeks ago, my grandma (on my dad\'s side) passed away. She lived in a place called Paradise, CA. I found out she passed on Friday at about 7 and was on a plane out there at Saturday morning at 6. This was very sudden and, I am sad to say, something I hesitated about doing for a few reasons.See, I had only met her once, that I remember anyway, a couple of years ago. She was the nicest lady in the world to me for the two days I saw her. I wasn\'t sure, however, if that made me a candidate to take a six hour flight out there, especially since everybody was say I didn't need to come and that they didn't know what was going on anyway (my grandma wanted to be cremated and didn't want a funeral) or if I was obliged to do it, simply because she was my grandma. I was also more worried than I should have been about what my boss would say when I didn't show up at work the following Monday. I guess it shouldn't have been a tough decision, but, in the end, I made the right choice and went out there. So, while the details of the whole trip are a whole other story, when it was finally time to go, I didn't want to leave. It is beauti-fucking-ful out there; the weather is perfect, I love the mountains and the sage brush, and plus, my entire dad's side of the family is spread out that way between AZ, CA, and NV and I have never gotten to hang out with any of them for longer than two days at a time.
So, when the girlfriend who I''ve struggled on and off with for the last 2+ years says she can't EVER trust me again because I like to look at naked women on the computer and I have a pulse, i mean libido, and breaks up with me, I look at it as a blessing and a chance to do somehing different. So, to my cousins in Reno, Here I come! After talking to the UNR people and finding out my credits won\'t transfer for shit, I'll probably end up only stayying out there for a year and then coming back to St. Louis to graduate. That's good because it gives me a chance to test out my mountain legs for a while and make a decision about where I want to eventually settle, if I want to settle, after that. bored yet?
OkOk, I'll try to wrap this up for anyone who has made i this far. I do not have any pets or children. I honestly don't have time or patience for either of them right now. While I'm currently going to school to become a teacher, my plan is to stay in that business for about ten yers and then open up an alternative style school, one based more on outside of the classroom learning. We'll see how that goes. Other than that, I like to hang out and get drunk once in a while. I don't smoke pot, but I am all for legalizing it for each of the 9 million uses it has. One of my favorite subjects to read and to talk about is metaphysics and altered-state issues and philosophies. I really appreciate how entheogens have been used by men and women throughout history to give us terrific and terrifying insights into this mystery we live inside. Yeah, I also like reading stuff my socialist thinkers, like Zinn, Chomsky, and Gatto (the last one probably isn't really a socialist. Conspiracy theory stuff also blows my mind sometimes (I don't trust the government). Well, want to know anything else, just ask. I've definitely given enough information to allow for a wire tap on my ass!
Peace and Anarchy,
Ryan
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young92782:
That would be awesome, Mariposa. If I have a place to stay in Reno, you'll have a place to stay in Reno!
megis:
thanks for the mail - it gave me alot to work with - catch ya later