: About Me

Oh, my. Hi there! :)

I'm a graphic designer with 13 years of experience. (I also have a BA in Psychology. Don't ask. I know an awful lot about neuropsychopharmacology, though.) I don't write about graphic design much though, except for the occasional Photoshop tutorial. Sadly, I don't have tutorials here on Helium because that's not Helium's angle (no picture uploading).

But plain old writing...mmm yum. I hadn't written much non-fiction until recently. I'm still working on finding my voice. Some days it's right there; other days it's elusive. It's hard for me to be clumsy like this. I like doing things well, and I hate doing them "wrong." It's a challenge - to work through this wrongness, and maintain optimism, in order to improve. :)

Quality research is my strong suit. Analysis is my strong suit. I have a glaring weakness for emoticons, but I do banish them from serious work, poor things.

Subjects of writing joy:
* Graphic design (especially tutorials and print production)
* Gaming (especially Euros and text. Geeks, you know what I mean)
* Technology (especially Apple-y stuff and online anthropology)
* Nutrition/weight loss (especially ways to succeed and whole foods)
* Satire. I don't know why satire is so popular. Being cruelly sarcastic comes so easily to me. But it's so much fun! I should just concentrate on this one.

As far as published pieces go, I have some scattered around the web, a few having involved exchange of coin. Contact me for your fun projects. If I am forced to inject fun, it won't be pleasant for either of us.
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PLAGIARISTS. Reported and awaiting outcome:
Seth Wood

Why do so many people plagiarize? For the 3 cents it will get them? Yeah, that's worthwhile. Intellectual theft is still theft.

I know too much about ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

My parents always told me ...

to be nice!

Why I write ...

It's cheaper than whiskey

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading "Dime Store Magic" by Kelley Armstrong, watching Lost, and listening to Shiina Ringo

My first job ...

Hoer. No, I didn't misspell it.

My best moment ...

hasn't happened yet. They just keep getting better!

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: The toys I grew up with

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The Star Wars Hoth playset is set up unnervingly close to the Barbie pool set, the jagged white plastic snow landscape with its gun turrets and traps nestling next to sun-kissed cardboard grass and patio tables. I clutch the large gray AT-AT action figure, a mechanical...elephant...of sorts from The Empire Strikes Back, and splash it forcefully into the Barbie pool, which it dwarfs. Skipper, sunning herself in the shallow end, is unperturbed. I'll fix that. "Where's your lightsaber NOW, Skipper?" I growl in my most menacing 7-year-old voice, the AT-AT looming over her. Meanwhile, hapless K...

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