Okay over the next few days you will be introducing yourself in a ton of classes. Many will just be asking for your name, your major and, perhaps even, where you are from or what you would like to do with the rest of your life. By the end of it you might think you have a pretty good answer to the question "Who are you?" and to be honest, as you grow older, this "Cocktail Party" question will continue to haunt you. The only thing that will change is that they won't care about your major but will want to know what you do. Are you a doctor, a lawyer and so on. You will answer this question a million times in your life and it will seem easy to live up to the Greek adage KNOW THYSELF. You are simply "John Smith" from "USS Suburbia" who now practices child psychology and has 1 kid and a dog. Okay, this is a reasonable answer. You may know yourself but to my mind something seems amiss. I seem and suspect that I am whole lot more than this.
In any case, if you have gotten a google account and can post something to this comment. Please tell me something about yourself but not something typical. Tell me something that you think really reflects who you are, something personal or particular to only you. It could be embarrassing, strange, perhaps confessional but just don't pretend to do it and put something trivial. Really confess something. If you honestly do this then reflect on what it took for you to be so "crazy" as to post such a thing. What characteristic, what comportment to the post did you take?
Of course you are not required to do this but eh, I thought it would or could be a fun way to start this blog.
I will go first. I am Dr. Layne and when I was 14 I was arrested for stealing a ferret.
Cheers,
Danny
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::Wrists Released:: "AAH!" ::Fumble::
My head, then body kerplunks down onto the cement.
Those are now my best friends.
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Oh ya, I'm pursuing a math minor too. Yay math!
Hello,
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