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Knowing is half the battle.
Created on 2004-06-15 13:13:02 (#3492549), last updated 2009-04-15
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| Name: | acereporter |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1972-06-30 |
| Location: | Staten Island, New York, United States |
| Website: | Lilith Studio |
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acereporter@livejournal.com I'm a thirty-something part-time writer and full-time daddy. It wasn't until I was twenty-five that I realized I wanted to be one. So I allow myself a little slack for just now really getting started in my career. Being left handed I guess I have a tendency to do things in an order backwards to what most consider the norm. Over the past decade I became a father first, husband second, a rookie reporter third and finally a college graduate.
My adult life started in the right direction; push play Junior High, High School and four years with the Navy. I started college with the intent of being an engineer and a scientist for NASA. I had gone to Space Camp as a teen and worked as a meteorologist for the Navy. I dreamed of adventures in the stars, and then some unknown force hit the pause button. The Navy dropped me like thousands of others with too little or too much time in service for the purpose of down sizing and my University in a budget crunch cut my program and disassembled most of my department.
Then like a paused DVD I lay helpless, motionless for a time until the unknown force discovered the shuffle button on my remote jumping me from the third act my prodigy, the second act my beloved wife and journalism and finally back to the first act of an adult life and my college education. Now like some snot nosed twenty-two year old I find myself at the beginning of a career again, but with the wisdom that comes with age like some hybrid of David and Solomon I have the pompousness to take on a giant, but the voice inside my head that says run mother-fucker run. So here I am running, now I just need a place to run to.
My adult life started in the right direction; push play Junior High, High School and four years with the Navy. I started college with the intent of being an engineer and a scientist for NASA. I had gone to Space Camp as a teen and worked as a meteorologist for the Navy. I dreamed of adventures in the stars, and then some unknown force hit the pause button. The Navy dropped me like thousands of others with too little or too much time in service for the purpose of down sizing and my University in a budget crunch cut my program and disassembled most of my department.
Then like a paused DVD I lay helpless, motionless for a time until the unknown force discovered the shuffle button on my remote jumping me from the third act my prodigy, the second act my beloved wife and journalism and finally back to the first act of an adult life and my college education. Now like some snot nosed twenty-two year old I find myself at the beginning of a career again, but with the wisdom that comes with age like some hybrid of David and Solomon I have the pompousness to take on a giant, but the voice inside my head that says run mother-fucker run. So here I am running, now I just need a place to run to.
Interests (53):
babylon 5, chasing amy, clerks, comic-books, communications, dance music, doctor who, documentaries, dogma, dragon page, drew barrymore, ethics, fantasy, farpoint media, feature films, horror, j. michael straczynski, jay & silent bob, journalism, kevin smith, literature, lord of the rings, love, mallrats, mass media, my daughter, my wife, mythology, nasa, new wave, new york city, no doubt, podcasting, poetry, rap music, rock music, science fiction, sex, ska, slice of scifi, smodcast, star wars, stargate sg1, staten island, tears for fears, the 1980's, the babylon podcast, the cure, the smiths, tori amos, video games, winging it, writing
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Schools:
P.S. 14 - Cornelius Vanderbilt School - Staten Island, NY (1977 - 1979)P.S. 112 - Lefferts Park School - Brooklyn, NY (1979 - 1981)
P.S. 38 - George Cromwell School - Staten Island, NY (1981 - 1983)
I.S. 02 - George L. Egbert - Staten Island, NY (1983 - 1986)
New Dorp High School - Staten Island, NY (1986 - 1990)
City University of New York - College of Staten Island - Staten Island, NY (2003 - 2007)
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