Gather 'Round

     This is the introduction post. The "Who Am I" post.
   
     I have tried my hardest, possibly still unsuccessfully, to avoid the awkward 'I've copy and pasted this from a dating website' vibe that readers so often have to deal with when it comes to introductions in online material. (And sometimes satirically on the inside cover of a book with the authors bio).

     From a young age, or at least as far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a storyteller.

     The rest of my life can basically be traced back to this one simple desire. To tell stories.

    My major and hopefully future career path? Anthropology, the study of people and the cultures both past and present. The field that most interested me within anthropology was ethnography, the telling of peoples stories.

     My obsession? Books. Reading and writing. I feel as though this is pretty obvious how it relates to the desire to be a storyteller.

     My passion? Photography. A picture is worth a thousand words, and its a lot of fun to try to tell a story within those thousand words. Every picture I take, and I've taken some 10,000+ (though I've deleted about 2/3rds of them) have a story behind them.

     My hobbies? Walking. Biking. Hiking. Camping. Backpacking. Rock Climbing. Scuba Diving (Eventually). Now while these all might not immediately bring up the idea of storytelling, the goal of all of them is to get me out into the world. Where are interesting stories made or found, sitting in front of a computer or television screen or out there [at this point please look out your nearest window]?

     I suppose that just makes this blog my digital campfire, where friends and strangers can gather 'round and listen to me tell my stories. Guess you guys'll be needing [these].

     ~Tim