I will no longer be defined by my past.

[jazzfish]

Not that I'm sure how to define myself by my present either. Other people's words will work well enough for now.

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What's to know? I read. I listen. I watch. Occasionally I write, or act.
I have been:

• the guy asking "Would you like some fries with that?"
  
• Richard Lionheart (in The Lion in Winter).
  
• a Counter of Furniture.
  
• in charge of the Fluxx World Championship.
  
• the token QA department in two pathetic software companies.
  
• published (in Pyramid magazine).
  
• a Summoner of Geese.

I like monkeys.

Comments

[zerblinitzky.livejournal.com]

A Counter of Furniture?

[jazzfish]

I spent a summer (1997, I think) working for Citibank. My job involved going to all the Citibanks in the greater Washington area and "taking a fixed-asset audit," i.e. recording all the furniture that they had and checking it against a list. About eighty percent of the time they had /more/ furniture than was on the list. I think there was only one time when there was something on the list that a place didn't have. But hey, they paid me $10/hr plus mileage.

[yubbie.livejournal.com]

Deciding what you are without worrying about what you were is a labor intensive process that requires much metaphorical sitting on mountaintops staring at your navel, while being poked with sticks by everyone you ever knew.

I wish you luck, and I mean that in the nicest non-sarcastic sense.

[jazzfish]

I'm noticing. Gotta start somewhere/when, though.

Thanks.

[scathach.livejournal.com]

You have also been:

A good friend. A good lover. A wit. A brain. A writer. A liar. A genius. A comic. A small god, of sorts.

Sometimes, being defined by our pasts isn't so bad, as long as we can keep it in perspective.

[jazzfish]

(suppressing impulse to laugh these off) *blush* Thanks.

It's more that I don't want to define myself solely by who I was, by what I did. It's part of me, but it doesn't have to be the main part.

[vond.livejournal.com]

> A good friend.

A best friend.

[drucsilla.livejournal.com]

Monkeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes yes monkeys.

summoner of geese? this is bad. bad bad wrong even. Geese are evil....... like taking over the world evil. They are mean creatures with evil intentions.

But you make me laugh. Therefore you are good like fudge.

[jazzfish]

I like monkeys.

Sadly, I cannot control my summoning of geese. Kind of like the Rain God in So Long and Thanks For All the Fish. They just follow me around.

And I'm glad to be of amusement. :)