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[turnea]

Well, well the last introduction was passable if a bit half-hearted.

I figure I'll try it once more, with feeling.

I'm a relatively calm, cool, and collected college student. I lived my entire life in Alabama mostly in Huntsville and the Birmingham Area and despite earnest wishes I have never once set foot on foreign soil.

That said I really do love my life. I seem to have totally missed the whole bummed out teenage period where everything seems pointless, as a matter of fact I feel it was during those years that the concept of purpose finally coalesced in the temperamental filing cabinet I call my mind.

Oh yeah, my name.... Alesis. If anyone can figure out what (or whether) that means I would greatly appreciate it. So far all I've gotten is a brand of keyboard, I'm likely the least musically inclined guy you'd ever meet so that would be ironic.

I am first and foremost and advocate of reason and absolute truth. Unlike many I don't find "relativism" an insidious force of evil, I find it to be the funniest joke mankind has ever played upon itself. As a friend (Shild also of AD fame) and I used to quip There is no truth, and that's the truth

There's another reason I love life, you can't make humor like this up if you tried. I am an unrepentant humorist I love a good joke and I tell a bad one.

Politically I am liberal in the true sense of the word.
I believe that there are problems in society in the world at large
I believe in fixing them (I'm an Engineering major, it's a compulsion)
I believe that government, as our system for collective decision making has a important role in doing so.
I don't believe most problems fix themselves (once again, humor)

I am an advocate of civil liberties, of international cooperation, of human rights and democracy.

I am an advocate and product of multiculturalism next to my family and God it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

I also like kittens, bunnies, and warm summer nights.

I don't like emotionalism. Don't get me wrong, emotions are important, but they are not the basis for serious decision making. I meet cries of "you can't understand you haven't experienced it!" with an acknowledgment that reasonable conversation (and therefore all progress) has just ended. I usually offer a Kleenex at this point.

I love to help people, especially academically. I'm a tutor here at the college (Cal II and General Chemistry) and have the bad habit of being interested in everything. It is a severe test of will to stick with my major.

That's enough of me for one dose.

Question? Comments? Suggestions?

This post has been edited by turnea: Apr 21 2005, 11:21 PM