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May 10, 2005

Allow Me To Introduce Myself

Filed under: Uncategorized — horselover_fat @ 10:03 pm


or
Who The Fuck Is Horselover Fat, And Why Does He Keep Interrupting our Conversation?”

I guess I’ve been putting this off long enough.

This being my first entry, I thought I’d start off with something simple. Just a little introduction for those of you who don’t really know me.

It seems, from my limited experience with chat rooms, that a persons vital statistics can be summed up with three simple letters: A/S/L. So, for the record; age: 30, sex: male, location: Lafayette, Louisiana.

Doesn’t quite seem to do the trick. Seems like I should add some more information to paint a more complete picture of who I am. The question is what set of data should I present to form a more complete and accurate picture of my life?

Well, here goes. Relevant information. As brief as possible.

My name is Ronald, or Ronnie, or Ron. I’m not from around here, originally. I was born and raised in Texas (it’s like a whole ‘nother country). I wound up in this great state when I came to live with my mother, around the age of twelve. Which means I’ve spent more that half of my life in Louisiana, for what it’s worth. Anyway, I never really adjusted to this state and it’s “cajun” culture. And to this day there exists a sort of uneasy truce between us.

The years after I moved here were mostly uneventful and quite boring. Didn’t make a lot of friends, but I was a pretty good student. At least through high school. When it came to college, I dropped out. Twice. This is a situation I would greatly regret and am currently trying to rectify.

So after the college thing fell apart, I kind of wandered around a bit. Met a girl. Got married. “Settled down” and had kids. I was 22 when I got married, and it was probably the single biggest mistake of my life (there’s so many to choose from). On the bright side, this “union” resulted in two very wonderful children. I am still amazed by the fact that two completely screwed-up individuals could possibly produce such amazing and (at least for now) well-adjusted children.

Which brings us to the current day (*). My “marriage”, for all intents and purposes, is over (except for the paperwork). I am trying to go back to school and, all in all, try to get my life back into some kind of order. Trying not to get my hopes up about school though, as I did a pretty good job of screwing it up the first couple of times. I know there are going to be a few hurdles to overcome with the financial aid thing. They aren’t to quick to hand out money to people who have the academic record I do. Still working on it though, just getting a little uneasy since the semester starts in less than a month and I still don’t have all the financial details worked out.

Oh, and I work for [insert name of world’s largest retailer here]. I count money for them, a job more tedious and ungratifying than it sounds.

So why the blog? I don’t know. Because I don’t want to continue living in a bubble, and the occasional feedback would be nice. Trey (Wilbur) has fixed me up a nice spot here and I hope to do it justice. There will NOT, however, be any discussion of philosophy or linguistics here. Not much at least, for that you need to go to thier respective sites. It’ll just mostly be me rambling on or bitching about whatever is bothering me at the time. I think I might put up a few links to websites that interest me. I would also like to eventually put up some of my own drawings or pictures once I find a place to host them.

For now, I’ll just keep it simple; until I “find my footing”.

Ron.

(*) I’ve skipped a lot.

3 Responses to “Allow Me To Introduce Myself”

  1. mayfly Says:

    Skipping is fun. Especially when combined with hopping and jumping, or class. Or <drum roll> a failed marriage!* Anyway. [i:151106d770]Velcome. [/i:151106d770] Not like it’s my place to say such a thing. But I wanted to do the Dracula accent. — [size=8:151106d770](*) I am four years more foolish than you. I was 18.[/size:151106d770]

  2. arglor Says:

    hi my name is arglor… lets play… ————————————————- Chewing gum is really gross. Chewing gum I hate the most. ————————————————- Lets boogie. ————————————————-

  3. mealymel Says:

    I’m catching up here. I used to work for the world’s largest retailer as well. Ugh. Got me through college, though.