Well, this week was refreshing in terms of how I felt and how people around me where suddenly noticing me, or my talents. In more than two occasions I found myself being the center of attention because of my design knowledge and I can't lie, it felt really good to be admired for it.

I could sit and type something like "I love design more than anything in the blah blah" but that's not really what I feel like doing. You're welcome. Instead I'll take advantage of the fact I have more than 30 "friends" (you know I add them here and none will talk to me!) and write about who I am, and that will hopefully give you insight on... who I am?

I'm 22 years old and I live in Panama, the heart of America (and if you think America is just the U.S. then you probably voted for Bush?). I just recently quit working for a call center after 4 years of answering calls for Cox Comunications - actually scratch that - I worked 1 year for Columbia House and then I got promoted to supervisor at age 19 and continued there for 3 more years. I was doing my thing in the afternoon shift, but then moved to the afterhours and became a grumpy kid with little to no patience for my coworkers and essentially treated them like Michael from the office. I decided I wasn't doing anyone any good and quit for my sake and theirs.

Long drama short, I mostly don't like much of the scene in my country. People care too much about the looks and little about the substance or the knowledge. It's an irony that I am majoring in graphic design, but I do feel it's a discipline and not a fad as most other kids studying with me do. I'm currently in my last year and hopefully will be graduating in december.

Lets see... what else? I'm a very opinionated person and I always strive to get the best out of my efforts. I have few friends because of it, and at times I wish it wasn't so. I'm extremely competitive, to a fault. Like, I'd rather know people who inspire me to be better at what I want by challenging me than by encouraging me as friends. I love debating too and I'm somewhat of a sociopath, sometimes acting up and saying things out of left field to see how people react and somehow get them thinking out the box.

I do a lot of sarcasm.

That's it, I just do.

If you're wondering why/how/where I got to learn this "perfect" english, well... my mom used to work in a bank at the Panama Canal Zone, which until 1999 was within property of the USAF. During that time I hanged around with a lot of army brats and also had 12 years of intensive english-language training at school (I think the latter is the reason I speak and write so well, but the former is the reason I talk the slang like I do) That plus the AFRTS channel here had all the cool cartoons which took a long ass while to get to local TV channels, only in english, but I didn't mind cause Ninja Turtles were kickass right? After the gringos left, mom lost her job and that pretty much severed my ties with any person I knew living in the military bases.

Hope this was informative in some way and if you wanna ask anything else, feel free... I assume you read the first parragraph? ;)

oh, here's a preview of something I'm working on!

peace