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Transferring profile from LJ

The story of my upbringing is quite inconsequential....
TL:DR, I am an Artist and Printer "by trade" (me have 20 yeer ould colludge duhgree frum stayte colludge me smort cum laude suppused too meen sumting)
I (like to) tell people I started drawing / art when I could eat crayons. I was taking semi-professional private art lessons starting in Middle school.
I've also been (struggling) try to make a "job" of visiting area middle schools dressed in historical clothing and arms & armor and get kids interested in, like, history and archaeology and stuff. Some people juggle geese (and probably make better money at it)

I grew up in the shadows of Plimoth-Patuxet (aka Plymouth Plantation) and Old Sturbridge Village, so I've been obsessed with History for about as long as doing the Art thing. Maybe that was all a mistake. But I try to have fun with it while losing what little money I have. Most of the time I feel it's a curse and/or I have this habit of stumbling walking a straight line. Or, maybe remembering names, dates and historical events is connected to some sort of dumb childhood trauma and a life riddled with an ever present crushing existentialist crisis and anxiety and terrible self-confidence / deep discouragement. Some people say it's that ADHD thing. Maybe I just need to focus/try/work/listen harder or something. OH LOOK A BIRD What kind of bird is it, sleep will not happen until I find out and memorize pointless but adorable details about it or what JJ Audubon or Fuertes or Peterson said about it decades ago or when it first appeared in print 300 years ago. So yeah what was I talking about oh yeah most of the time I feel I'm cursed and it's terminal.

Some people have 80s music or soundtracks from their favorite movie(s) as their background noise. Sarcasm and self-depreciation are mine.

I don't have a lot of hope for Humanity. I tend to be brutally cynical.
Yet you managed to read this far. Oh, wait till you read the Interests list, I'm a trainwreck of interests.