I had to step out and take a meeting so I missed probably half of Damian Synadinos' talk. Therefore, if this feels incomplete and rambling, well, that's because it literally is ;).
I am intimately familiar with being asked "what I do" as well as "who I am". The fact is, I am a lot of people. No, I don't mean in a schizophrenic sense (though that's debatable at times). I mean it in the Walt Whitman sense:
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
The point is that we are never just one thing. All of our quirks, imperfections, and contradictions come from our many experiences, histories and active pursuits.
Depending on who you talk to about me, you might get a wildly interesting view of exactly who I am. It might get really interesting depending on what period of my life you ask about, but if I had to guess, these identities might show up:
actor
bass player
bodybuilder
boy scout leader
carpenter
cosplayer
dancer
drummer
father
fish geek
gardener
guitar player
husband
mandolinist
mormon
obsessive music fan
otaku
photographer
pirate
podcast producer
poet
programmer
prose writer
singer
snowboarder
tester
video gamer
yogi
If I had to choose a specific attribute, I'm going to lay claim to "eclectic".
Each of these has informed my life in a variety of ways, and each of them has given me skills, interests and a number of very interesting people to do this variety of things with. In many ways, it's the people that I interacted with that informed how long or how little time any of these endeavors/attributes have been a part of my life, but all of them are and all of them have provided me skills to do the things I do.
Also, if any of the items on that list have you wondering what they are or how I'm either actively involved in or why I chose to mention them, please be my guest :).
I am intimately familiar with being asked "what I do" as well as "who I am". The fact is, I am a lot of people. No, I don't mean in a schizophrenic sense (though that's debatable at times). I mean it in the Walt Whitman sense:
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
The point is that we are never just one thing. All of our quirks, imperfections, and contradictions come from our many experiences, histories and active pursuits.
Depending on who you talk to about me, you might get a wildly interesting view of exactly who I am. It might get really interesting depending on what period of my life you ask about, but if I had to guess, these identities might show up:
actor
bass player
bodybuilder
boy scout leader
carpenter
cosplayer
dancer
drummer
father
fish geek
gardener
guitar player
husband
mandolinist
mormon
obsessive music fan
otaku
photographer
pirate
podcast producer
poet
programmer
prose writer
singer
snowboarder
tester
video gamer
yogi
If I had to choose a specific attribute, I'm going to lay claim to "eclectic".
Each of these has informed my life in a variety of ways, and each of them has given me skills, interests and a number of very interesting people to do this variety of things with. In many ways, it's the people that I interacted with that informed how long or how little time any of these endeavors/attributes have been a part of my life, but all of them are and all of them have provided me skills to do the things I do.
Also, if any of the items on that list have you wondering what they are or how I'm either actively involved in or why I chose to mention them, please be my guest :).
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