User:PaperTruths/About

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Lifestyle

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And finally...

Currently a(n)...

 * Freelance writer with ~8 years experience
 * ACE, Adobe Photoshop CS; freelance graphic and promotional designer
 * Knitwear designer, knitting instructor, and professional knitter
 * Apprentice to a master fiber artist
 * Fashion buyer, women's jewelry and footwear

Used to be a(n)...

 * ACP copy editor, reporter, and online production manager
 * University student-instructor, remedial English composition
 * University tutor, writing lab
 * Assistant section editor for a large website
 * Humor columnist for various publications, print and online

Other stuff
As a sideline, I do voice acting for a local indie animation studio, and also occasionally take voice work for local radio commercials. I'm involved with a community theater troupe as a jack-of-all-trades—I might be up a 20' ladder hanging lights one day, baking edible prop food the next, working on costumes or sets, or even performing. Other hobbies and interests include: volunteer work for PGDP, painting, interior design, sewing, gourmet cooking and baking, playing the piano and the recorder, dancing, and charity knitting.

I share apartment space with 17 pounds of little black mutt (part Shih Tzu, part perpetual motion machine, and part alien life form), who enjoys Cherry Coke and watching cartoons and game shows. He is not fond of the news, and tends to make his displeasure known by leaping at the TV cabinet and whining until I find something he wants to watch. That's right, I'm a channel-surfer-by-proxy for a dog.

Oh, and something that tends to come up a lot is my sesquipedalianist proclivities. I'd like to apologize for that in advance. Someone should have told me that you're not supposed to read dictionaries from cover-to-cover—it warps young, impressionable minds. ;) At this point, it's just the way I think, rather than a calculated attempt to show off or impress.  Actually, I try to tone it down...with variable success.

And that's probably way more than anyone in their right mind wanted to know about me. :D

What's up with the username?
I have an inordinate fondness for archaic texts, which I come into contact with both through PGDP and on my own time. Looking through old encyclopedias, dictionaries, essays, and similar, I've long been fascinated with the various changes in accepted "truths". In many cases, the prevailing views of the day and their accepted wisdom are both passed on through writing. The ideas often seem to be then regarded as substantiated by the medium through which they are expressed.

At the least, it's an interesting phenomenon that goes on to this day. In modern society, words have a very real influence on the way we perceive the world. It's not inconceivable that many of the things we accept as true could, in fact, be false. (A concrete example from a related phenomenon could be all the hoax e-mails that keep Snopes in business.) Such fallacies would to some degree be perpetuated by their expression in words. They would be "paper truths".

It seemed rather appropriate for a project like Wikipedia!

A little extra vanity
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