I was born may 8th 1984 in a hospital in toronto called Mount Sinai, 10 days before my mother turned 30. I grew up as a very hyper child, and was diagnosed with Combined type ADHD at a very early age. This, combined with a very curious nature, and I was a real troublemaker as a child J
I went to a religious school until grade 8, and speak 3 languages, including Hebrew. I found this especially useful on the bus, as I take it through a jewish neighborhood all the time and get to listen to the girls talk about me / everyone else. Good times there.. lol
Fond memories from elementary – grade 4 ‘josh’ peed his pants and made ‘lake ontario’ because the teacherwouldn’t let him goto the bathroom for 3 hours – pissing off my history teacher (last period) so badly in grade 7 that she would let me go 45 minutes early and give me perfect marks just to get rid of me.
High school was at a school called Forest Hill in my area, for the first 3 years. I was a huge stoner in those days, as some of you know. I met quite a few good people, including some great friends who I’m still fond of.
This was around the time I got involved in AC. I remember my first day and how exciting it was, running around between rithwic and eastham, but this isn’t an AC history so I’ll leave it at there really (or maybe post one later).
My claim to fame in life occurred in grade 9. Yes this is hard to believe and no I couldn’t do it again, but there’s a police report somewhere to prove it. I was walking home from school one day and I got attacked(?) by 3 guys. The way I remember it is I was walking and they come up behind me and the guy on my left says “gimme all your money†I said no and kept walking, like a stupid kid.. and the guy lit a match and threw it in my face. At this point I realized I was in trouble so I started running but they grabbed at me. I had been taking karate since I was 9 and knew how to react, but I’m still amazed at what I did… beat the crap (broke one guys wrist and kicked the other one hard in the stomach) and ran into some store to call 911. Cops got there might fast.
After grade 11 I got kicked out of school for poor attendance. Even tho I had a 91% average, I didn’t have the required class hours so they told me I had to leave at the end of the year. I had 2 years of high school remaining (Ontario was 5 years), so I went to a private school called metro prep here in Toronto.
I had to take the bus there everyday. It brings up some interesting stories including the time a homeless guy got on the bus and smelt up the damn thing to the point where the driver had to stop and wait for a supervisor to come before he could continue. I’ll never forget that smell K I also had a time when some lady got on the bus before me and pushed me down the stairs. Luckily there were other people waiting to get on or I would’ve been seriously injured. The bus driver insisted on calling the police also.
During that year I also met my first real girlfriend (Lauren) who I dated for almost 2 years. She broke up with me, as I was telling Riko on Saturday, 2 weeks before we were to move in together, and the lease was non transferable etc so I ended up living with her for an entire year, what an uncomfortable experience that was.
I eventually graduated and was accepted into a computer science program at the University of Guelph (where I wanted to go). I did a full year there and decided I would like to try out engineering and made the switch, which I haven’t regretted. So I’m doing a major in software engineering and a minor in cognitive neuropsychology. My interests are in brain development and massive parallel processing systems. I love both psych and computers so if u have any questions send me a PM J
During my second (this past) year of college I volunteered as a “orientation volunteer†(they had a rule that you weren’t allowed to (eff) the frosh, and that was largely ignored, lol! I met my current gf that week, the one that some of you met this weekend. Beautiful girl, incredible personality. I heart her! Anyway we do some really obnoxious stuff together, and I have her saying things like ‘irl’ ‘emo’ and ‘diaf’ in real life.
I currently work as a web developer lead for a company called Teranet here in Toronto doing various things, and I find myself bored more often than not. I have a great team to work with though, and we have a good time none the less.
A little bit about my AC history:
I play a sword character named Gfn. I’ve played him since I started playing AC (my first character) in may of 2000, and I haven’t changed him much since (he got life magic when the whole dropping skills thing came out around lvl 140). I was under a monarch Faze on FF, and then Moto Morrashi when he left. Amazing guy, if anyone knows what happened to him please let me know. Eventually I left to join a chain under Ogmosis and met a lot of good friends there as well, including spamna (under Moto I mean). I left ogmosis and became a monarch of the Nudist Colony for the first time. I had armor which used a lot of mana so I was always naked, and Gfn couldn’t buff himself (until very recently actually) so he was a huge gimp
I left and joined RoG under Big Wiz and wast here serving on his monarchy council for quite a long time. When I quit I was still under him, but eventually I came back and left to restart the nudist colony. That monarchy became far 2 inactive and we swore under the biggest gimp on FF, Draccopuppies. Good times were had by all.
VN history:
I started reading vn sometime between late 2001 and early 2002. This is definetley not my first posting account. Anyway I trolled on FF a lot from high school and was all excited about the scrolling posts, but even tho it was fast it just wasn’t enough and at some point I migrated over to ACF. I read for a very long time but rarely if ever posted, and eventually got the courage to do so (admittedly, how many people knew about me before I was a mod here?)
I became more interested in the boards, and when Lauren broke up with me I had the free time and applied to become a mod here. I didn’t hear anything for months, and figurd all was lost and eventually got a PM offering me a position for the AC General board. I was surprised and excited, and my mentor (Osmethne) and I were trying to figure out whether I was a mod on FF as well, which was my goal. Found out about that… that same night there was a riot on FF, dt invaded! And I get a msn message from Darshawn asking for help. There’s a lot of mod tools, and its pretty overwhelming your first few days. I had no idea what to do (and I was asleep through most of it lol). I’ve since dealt with many riots, and I currently train new mods as well.
One day they were looking for new mods on ACF and I msg’d one of the VN senior managers (Desi) asking about the position. A few days later it was approved, and that sexy Lyndrek person and I were appointed as new mods here. I don’t think we’re doing THAT bad a job.
I worked my ass off to get to the meeting this weekend and had a lot of fun at the dinner. I wish we could’ve stayed later but we really had to leave. I have awesome pics as well (and we saw some guy tight rope walking across 2 hotels on the way back toe the car. I have pictures that I’ll probably upload tomorrow if I have time.
Hope that’s good for a first post. I’d flesh it out but I need to do some work today
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that's like saying "cosmic space dust I hate you for being out there, where I can't see you, but I know you're there and like, it's not good and stuff."
-Lyndrek
http://gfn.myminicity.com/
