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Oh dear.
Well, my name is James. Some people call me Jim. Take your pick. Jimmy is right out though. As is Jamie.
By today's date, 22nd January 2000, I am 22 years old. I live in Maidenhead, UK. This is not Maidstone. Maidstone is the other side of London. I'll save us both some time by answering that right now.
I studied Computer Science/Software Engineering at the University of Birmingham, and then left that glorious place to live in Maidenhead, working for a telecommunications company as a Software Design Engineer.
Sometimes I wonder about that choice. But only sometimes.
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I'm interested in a few things. The main thing being computers. I really can't get enough of them. I like programming, games, web page development, image processing.
I'm also really into photography, although so far I have found nothing to photograph in Maidenhead. I have an old SLR camera (Ricoh KR5 Super II, anyone? No, of course you haven't heard of it) courtesy of my ex-girlfriend, and it is tops. I'll photograph anything if I think it might be interesting, and in a collision of hobbies, sometimes I scan those pictures and change them (usually correcting mistakes I made when taking the picture). Otherwise, I read a fair bit. Mostly short stories - Isaac Asimov's robot stories are the pinacle, I believe, against which other short stories are measured. I've also been reading a collection of short Vampire stories recently, which is very good if you stick to the modern stuff. I'm not keen on the older things. Other hobbies, both more or less stopped: I attended ballroom dancing lessons for a while, and I used to play Magic: the Gathering. One of these is better than it sounds; you decide. |
Music wise, I'm into all sorts. Garbage, Red Delicious, Shania Twain, Sleeper, Republica, Enya, Mike Oldfied, Jean Michelle Jarre, chart dance music, general indie, and even some Goth stuff I've found on the Internet. I'll let you work out what my average taste is.
My aims in life: ah. Very deep, can reveal a lot about you. Alas, I'm quite shallow. My aim was simply to find a job which pays for a reasonable life while letting me do work I'm interested in. I thought I had this one cracked when I left University, but no joy. I would like to get into some serious computer programming, or web site design - either way a chance to flex my creative muscles. (And if you think I have muscles then you really are being creative.)
Of course, really I would like to be a graphic designer, illustrator or professional photographer, but I'm really not that good. Damn.
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Finally, I should probably finish on some sort of character study. You know, I should be like, "I'm quick tempered, tidy, but a softy at heart". Well forget that! Let me tell you something instead. University has shown me all sorts of things about people. It has also provided me with several ways to deal badly with most of my friends at one time or another, those from University and those from home. I apologise to you all. But everyone I know seems to have some dark secret they are hiding. Some issue in their life. I can't get my head around it. No one is who you think they are. Almost worthy of a science fiction novel. The one thing which should unite us, is that everyone has their problems. That's everyone. Without exception. But in the course of hiding problems, big issues blow up out of proportion. Most of them calm back down again, with just a few grudges. And we're still friends. But why does it always get that far? I'll never understand it. But then, nobody's perfect. |