About
Hmm, do I really have to write an autobiography page? I’m really a bit more comfortable writing about Lost than about myself. But since you clicked this link, you clearly want to know something about who I am and why I went to all the trouble of making this blog, so I guess I ought to say something.
So let’s start with the boring stuff, shall we? What I do for a living. To put it in a nutshell, I’m a professional nerd. There, I said it. I do have to admit to a certain degree of geekhood. I work on computers, after all. It’s part of the job description. In my case, I suppose, honesty would dictate that “a certain degree” be replaced with “a large amount”. Okay, fine. I could give Weird Al a run for his money in the geek department. My job is in the telecommunications industry; I work with software that organizes the calls coming into large call centers and routes them to the person the software decides is the best one to handle the call, which of course is usually someone on the other side of the world who reads a script and speaks a dialect of English that’s probably only intelligible to someone else on the other side of the world.
This job has me traveling a fair bit, or at least it did before the recession cut into the travel budget. I’ve been from Los Angeles to New Hampshire to Miami. This would be a lot of fun if it didn’t involve so much work. Unfortunately I rarely have the opportunity to do any tourism, but at least I get to laugh into my sleeve when I go to Miami in January while my coworker ends up in Boston.
When I’m not traveling I’m at home in Mississippi. Now, I know some of you probably subtracted about a hundred points from my I.Q. when you read the word “Mississippi”, but let me just go ahead and tell you, I’m not married to my sister and I haven’t seen a UFO. I’m only dating her and I can’t swear it wasn’t a weather balloon. Really, though, I love Mississippi. I enjoy meeting people from all over the country when I travel — I consider it the highlight of my job, actually — but it’s always great to get home at the end of the week. There’s something special about the South, and it’s not just that you can get sweet tea here.
I’m a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison, MS, where I work on the technical team every other week or so. This usually involves running the PowerPoint presentation for the service, and since the script is created for me ahead of time, this generally amounts to me doing a rather good impression of John Locke sitting in the Swan station pushing the button every 108 minutes.
Maybe that’s why I like Lost so much.