K, I'd love to give you my life's story, but in short, I'm this:  

    I'm looking to travel, find myself- my beliefs, my religion, feelings, seeking my (warning, sappy again) True Love.. (Amongst whichever gender I figure out that I can choose from, anyway), and just.. everything.  Like everyone else, I'm trying to find my way in the universe. :P  As dorky as that may sound, it doesn't make it any less true.  (..It would be so much easier if I were more like those richer everybodies though...)  As for now, I'm here in Va. living with an interesting roommate; my grandmother, and trying to find a job, a home, a life, etc.  I've been attempting to start to a career, and an existence that's -Real-.for quite some time now.  (Or at least, as real as varying philosophers would debate things get). :P  Gee I wish that would start soon... 

     I'm interested in anything and everything, which you'll soon see if you visit my diaries.  I extremely diverse musical tastes, an eclectic way of looking at many, many things, and on many issues have a fencepost firmly rooted up my backside as well.  I love the old arts- like singing,  drawing, painting, pottery/ceramic sculpture, dancing and storytelling, and am always in for a good book, movie, or night on the town.  I adore big cities, far away places, and exotic locales, and someday hope to be either independently wealthy so I can travel, or travel during my work so I can become independently wealthy. ;)  If I could learn every language on the face of the earth, past and present, including writing and all that jazz, I WOULD.  I love eastern culture, alternative healing, homeopathy, energy-working, belly dancing, mhendi, learning stuff about India, China, Japan, Tibet n' Celtic culture.  I wanna see everywhere, either draw or photograph the places and their peoples, and so very much want to travel if not live in just about any and every country abroad, especially the big classics like Italy, Spain, France, or one of the ancient green places like Ireland, England or Scotland.  Just slap all those other more exotic locales on there and you've got just about everywhere.   I used to be hardcore goth and gamer, but now I'm a little less all-about those now, although I still drip my honeydipper in there once and a while now when I get to missing them.  I'm surrounded by people still in both scenes, so I'm having some fun w/ both currently.  I've always been a sucker for fantasy books, movies, etc, so gaming is only a natural step to take.  I still dig, (methinks I always will) D&D, and lord knows I'll always have a little Vampire/WoD in me, so who knows, right? :)  I've been studying myself long enough now to know I'm actually *gasp* multi-faceted.  I'm a li'l bit goth, a li'l bit raver, some hippie, some gypsy/New Ager, a touch punk and a lot funky artist.  If you HAAAAAAAD to put a label on me, I guess you could say I'm am artsey funky graver hippie crystal starchild activist freak...  But that might be hard to find a community for, so generally I'd shy away from labels. ;)

    As for "current events" & "goals?"  Well....   My aim in life is to both sing and do my art, while somehow helping other people with disabilities get closer to the arts.  Of course I'd love to get famous, or at least paid for my work and actually have a position with an org like VSArts or another outreach program in the meantime that combines therapy/instruction with getting closer to making and made art.  For right now however I'm happy to work with other gigs I can find (hopefully similar to the one mentioned above in some way), in addition to meeting up with people through various mediums like this and getting like-minded people together.  :D  It's one of my goals to prove to others who may not already know that folks who have bad eyes can and do love art, and can do a damn great job of creating it as well.  Speaking as a person who never KNEW places like VSArts existed, or even that there were other people out there like me who's VI and who's still a freaky li'l artist, it's soooooooo great to find out that I'm not the only one.. that I and people like me, are not alone...  (When I found out what VSArts was and what it was about, I'm not kidding, I cried...) 

But saptastic or not, :I wanna have fun, and hopefully, maybe make a little money for some of my art here and there.  So I'm currently vending at certain clubs in DC lately.  I get to see great people, sell some of my work if I'm lucky, and get artistic exposure in one of the biggest cities around.  This is good, so all I need now s a job and a home.  Any offers?  *grins*  Anyhow, I've chewed your ear off long enough.  If you wanna know more about me, check out my LJ, and I hope maybe I'll get to talk with you sometime.

Smiles and Waves,

Renaessance