Wow, this
is a depressing thread. :laugh: 'Kay, I don't really make too many personal posts here, but I guess this wouldn't hurt.
1. I'm pretty poor - my entire immediate family is actually. I had to drop out of high school so I could work a few jobs to support me and my mom since she's disabled. Since then I've gone back and gotten my AHS diploma, which was a real hassle, especially the math stuff.
2. For a very, very long time I considered myself to be Agnostic, but I'm now a born again Christian. There are absolutely no good churches in my area, so I do worship and study on my own. Faith plays a huge part in my life and really helps me get through the tough times.
3. Because of my financial situation, I don't see myself ever making it to college on my own, which is why I'm putting everything I have into getting a novel published. I guess you can infer what my dream job is, being able to write for a living. I spent most of 2007 planning the finer details of the series and started writing it on New Year's day, I'm currently 67 pages and four chapters into the book and hope to finish it by September. When I'm not at work or posting/watching toku, I'm writing, it's what I've devoted my life to since the start of the year. Of course I still do take the occasional breaks to go and hit up a park for a game of soccer.
4. I'm a fairly good soccer player. I hated it when I was a kid but I found a love for it during the 2002 World Cup and have loved it since then. In 2005 I tried to make it on to a pro team, that didn't work out. I wasn't actually expecting to make it, but I'm glad I tried because I got to experience a lot of great things and thanks to the training, my physical condition vastly improved. I'm Mexican, so I guess I'm fulfilling that stereotype.
5. I know it probably sounds really stupid, but with all I've gone through in my life, I actually feel sort of proud to say that not only is it my favorite show, but Kamen Rider Hibiki is actually a major inspiration to me. The character of Hibiki himself is someone I kind of consider to be an idol to me. I know he's an incredibly unrealistic character at times, but never really having known my father, I can see traces of myself in Asumu, which is why the series was a much more personal thing for me. It also didn't hurt that it had a fantastic cast. The series actually helped me get off my arse and then promptly back on it to finally start writing a book I've head in my mind for years.
Other tidbits -
- I know both English and Spanish fluently and know a good amount of Portuguese, I'm hoping to add Japanese to this list one day, but it's something I don't see happening for a long, long time, if ever.
- I've only been in the toku fandom since 2004, but I've been around toku almost my entire life.
- I live in one of the most drug infested areas of the city, I live next door to a pack of hookers, across from a drug dealer and just down the lane from a man who has been arrested more times than I can count. There is absolutely no one my age around here that I can call a friend, which is why I stick to message boards and on occasion hang out with some coworkers.
5- My mother doesn't have cancer. She no longer has her spleen either.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. My mom went through cancer (that has
never stopped sounding strange to me) for about a year and a half (2005-2006), I know how much of a toll it can take on you. But if anything, it makes the relationship with a mom a heck of a lot stronger.
