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Elysium
"Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel"
Created on 2004-05-03 13:03:24 (#3032628), last updated 2004-05-30
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Basic Info| Name: | bacchos |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 10-26 |
| Location: | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
BioMy childhood was quietly spent in small New England towns in America. My father enjoyed restoring Victorian houses and so we would routinely pick up and move every couple of years to a new dilapidated home which would soon be on Historical Society walking tours.
Grade school was uneventful at best. I was bored most of the time and consequently did not go on to university; I just wasn't inspired by formal education. Instead, I pursued a passion for cooking that I’d discovered whilst working at a local restaurant as a line cook. This eventually brought me to Providence, Rhode Island as a sous chef. A sous chef is roughly the equivalent of a Vice President in a commercial kitchen: someone who takes responsibility when the Head Chef is not around.
After several years of this, however, I needed to get out. The work was exhausting and I constantly smelt of rancid grease, no matter how much I showered. So, still in Providence, I determined to make a clean break and end my culinary career. Instead, I took up a long-held dream: to be an artist.
Now, Providence, Rhode Island is both a good and bad place to begin a full-time art career. It is home to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), an internationally known art college. Consequently, the town is overflowing with resources for the budding artist. It also has hundreds of other people just like me who are all selling their soul on a square of canvas. After a year of counter-culture ambition, I decided that being a romantically starving artist was more romance than I could bear. Many evenings saw me eating plain pasta or even saltines and ketchup as dinner. I did my best; it was time for something new.
So I enlisted in the Army. And this turned out to be one of my best decisions. Military service gave my life structure, taught me the Korean language and computer skills, sent me all over the world to wonderful places, and would in the end be the vehicle that brought me to my wife.
In 2000, I left the Army from a British RAF base. Instead of going back home, I picked up a job as a software developer and have been at that job ever since.
Finally, my wife and I have recently purchased our first home, a lovely Victorian townhouse in the centre of Cambridge, and are carrying on the family tradition of restoration.
Grade school was uneventful at best. I was bored most of the time and consequently did not go on to university; I just wasn't inspired by formal education. Instead, I pursued a passion for cooking that I’d discovered whilst working at a local restaurant as a line cook. This eventually brought me to Providence, Rhode Island as a sous chef. A sous chef is roughly the equivalent of a Vice President in a commercial kitchen: someone who takes responsibility when the Head Chef is not around.
After several years of this, however, I needed to get out. The work was exhausting and I constantly smelt of rancid grease, no matter how much I showered. So, still in Providence, I determined to make a clean break and end my culinary career. Instead, I took up a long-held dream: to be an artist.
Now, Providence, Rhode Island is both a good and bad place to begin a full-time art career. It is home to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), an internationally known art college. Consequently, the town is overflowing with resources for the budding artist. It also has hundreds of other people just like me who are all selling their soul on a square of canvas. After a year of counter-culture ambition, I decided that being a romantically starving artist was more romance than I could bear. Many evenings saw me eating plain pasta or even saltines and ketchup as dinner. I did my best; it was time for something new.
So I enlisted in the Army. And this turned out to be one of my best decisions. Military service gave my life structure, taught me the Korean language and computer skills, sent me all over the world to wonderful places, and would in the end be the vehicle that brought me to my wife.
In 2000, I left the Army from a British RAF base. Instead of going back home, I picked up a job as a software developer and have been at that job ever since.
Finally, my wife and I have recently purchased our first home, a lovely Victorian townhouse in the centre of Cambridge, and are carrying on the family tradition of restoration.
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