I suppose I fall neatly into the rubric of shyness everyone seems to be 
talking about.  The only difference is that I might be considered shy 
online, as well.  I like to consider my demeanor as an expression of 
ultimate economy of bandwidth, but that's an entirely separate story.

Name: Charles Lewis

Age: 20.  Kicking and screaming, I'll turn 21 in about a month.  

Height: 6'3 and change.

Weight: 240-ish (give or take)

Home: Sunny, lovely, geriatric Sarasota, FL.

Physical appearance and distinguishing scars: As a rule, I try to keep 
myself as unkempt as possible.  I have a full, reddish beard and 
brown-red hair.  I wear glasses, largely because I hated the effort 
contacts required.

Occupation:  You know, I'm really not sure about this one.  I'm a 
student, in my fourth year, at New College (its own interesting story, 
check out its home page http://www.sar.usf.edu).  I transferred from 
Hamilton College, where I had basically completed two majors (Computer 
Science and Philosophy -- in that order).  I had sort of neglected the CS 
side of things, but resumed my apprenticeship under the tutleage of the 
UV vomit-god.  
	In addition to (allegedly) attending college, I also work 
more-or-less full time as MIS director, and occasionally a pinch-hitting 
programmer, for a rapdily growing local development firm, which is 
also a subsidiary of a singularly massive and GENOM-like international 
computer company, where I get to fight tooth and nail with software and 
hardware products most people won't get to see for years and, worse 
still, bureaucrats from Long Island (given the choice, you can probably 
guess which I prefer).  
	What this means, I'm not quite sure.  I don't know what I want to 
do with my life -- I like the nice, happy paychecks from work, but I also 
like the idea of pursuing more education.  I don't particularly get off 
on either at the moment, to be honest.

Hobbies:  Between school and work, I don't have a lot of time for hobbies 
as-such.  Some of the trappings of both the job and the schooling serve 
as hobbies -- I still like to read books by ancient dead people, and I 
spend undue amounts of time doing UNIX system administration, development 
and general tweaking on my retinue of odd equipment.  
	I have been reading fan-fictions for several years (I remember 
when ftp.std.com was founded as the archive -- let's put it that way), 
but just recently decided to write one (BGC: Machina non Grata -- ch.2 is 
done and will be released some time Thursday night, BTW).  I like to 
write dark, hopefully disturbing work.  I think I have a sense of humor 
(?), but I can't see writing comedies ... Ranma work is best left to 
those of lighter spirit than I.

Favorite anime:  That's a tough one.  I like Takahashi stuff, as I think 
_almost_ everyone does.  I think UY is one of my all-time favorites, 
simply because it has soooo much going on below the surface -- there's 
always a little something more to get from it.  I'm also a big fan of the 
Macross family, dating way back.  
	I would, traditionally, watch any anime at least once.  Given the 
sort of things ADVision is releasing lately, I think that's changed.  I 
can tolerate sex, violence and death (hell, I even enjoy them), but I 
can't tolerate plotless drivel -- with, or without, T&A.  Without shame, 
I freely admit to enjoying all sorts of anime -- from Sailor Moon to MI 
to Gainax to Miyazaki, and I similarly admit to really enjoying dramatic 
anime.  

Musical tastes:  I like to think that I run the gamut, although I've 
grown more than sick of classic rock.  I seem to tend towards jazz and 
classical recently, but I also have a large collection of vintage blues 
... and punk bootlegs.  

Anyhow, I think I've yammered enough -- I think I've broken Charles' law 
of bandwidth consumption! <egads>

CHL