About Jess
Age: 30
Location: The Middle of Nowhere, USA
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Professor
Pets: Levi (cocker spaniel), Bowie, Macy, and Brodie (cats)
Timeline (dates accurate to +/- 6 years):
- 1977: Born
- 1979: Knocked out front teeth in bed-bouncing accident
- 1980: Attended showing of Empire Strikes Back, got trapped in a restroom stall during a mid-movie break
- 1982: Attended 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville; entered kindergarten; framed in playground biting incident
- 1984: Learned cursive handwriting; failed to learn Roman numerals; voted Reagan in class mock election
- 1985: Convinced myself I could both breakdance and beatbox
- 1986: Started Little League — go Expos
- 1987: Knocked out front teeth in biking accident
- 1988: Came to the realization that I could neither breakdance nor beatbox; rapping remains a possibility
- 1989: Knocked out front tooth in baseball accident
- 1991: Began wrestling and playing high school football; front teeth surprisingly remain intact
- 1992: Played an inordinate amount of Street Fighter II
- 1994: Lost race for student government presidency (beaten by girl with free candy and catchy country-western song)
- 1995: Graduated from high school; began college; discovered Internet; launched the Virtual Broomcloset
- 1996: Launched Verbosity; played an inordinate amount of Quake; reconsidered future as doctor/computer programmer
- 1997: Watched Verbosity crash and burn; logged off Internet for first time since 1995; revived political career with student body VP win
- 1998: Engaged in various student government scandals; met and wooed Kourtney; made stage debut in Oscar Wilde’s Salome
- 1999: Graduated from college; moved into first apartment; began graduate school; ate lots of boxed macaroni and cheese
- 2000: “Where should we go for lunch?”; played an inordinate amount of Madden 2001
- 2001: Wrote thesis in two weeks; nearly suffered mental breakdown; earned MA; started Ph.D. program
- 2003: Married Kourtney; launched Apropos of Something; passed comps; passed out
- 2004: Created this timeline
- 2005: Mysteriously disappeared from blogging for nearly a year
- 2006: Returned from my blogging hiatus, updated timeline
Some of my interests: General pop culture type things, tech stuff, computer games, science fiction, history, politics
Some of my favorite films: Army of Darkness, Best in Show, Chasing Amy, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, The Matrix, A Mighty Wind, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shakespeare in Love, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Some of my favorite television shows: 24, Battlestar Galactica, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Deadwood, Firefly, Futurama, Lost, Project Runway, The Simpsons, Survivor, Trading Spaces, What Not to Wear
Some of my favorite music: Barenaked Ladies, Belle and Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Nellie McKay, the Shins, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, The White Stripes
Some of my favorite books: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams, Why Not Me? by Al Franken, The Simpsons and Philosophy, Sir Apropos of Nothing and The Woad to Wuin by Peter David, Straight Man by Richard Russo, several classics that looked a bit pretentious when listed
Some of my favorite computer games: Anachronox, Day of the Tentacle, Knights of the Old Republic, the Madden football series, No One Lives Forever, the Monkey Island series, Quake, the Quest for Glory series, System Shock 2, the Space Quest series, the Thief series, Tropico, Unreal Tournament, World of Warcraft
