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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Problems problems problems. Risks being crushed to death by book piles probably 80% of the time. Went to school for too many years to learn about brains, feelings, feeling brains (two out of those three). Professional quadriplegic. Hobbyist absurdist. Mental health counselor during work hours only. Constantly on the verge of asking people if they want to fight. Rarely ever actually fighting people?