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So. I'm a high school science teacher, qualified and registered, though not teaching as such.
I am a terrible geek... or, part geek, part nerd, and part 80 year old eccentric English gentleman.

I am highly opinionated, and am able to argue my points in a manner I consider effective. I tend to avoid doing so these days, in the large, because it only serves to anger me and the other party, usually, and I'm really not at all interested in being angry if I can help it: I'd rather be happy. Call me odd.
I am, in many regards, non-mainstream. Some people let the river of society carry them everywhere. Going with the flow serves its purpose, but I'd walk on the damn water to get upstream rather than just doing things because they're easy. Life is not meant to be easy. Life is a struggle uphill with broken glass in your boots. And yet life, too, is filled with a verdant and radiant beauty.
I worship no god (though I have an affectionate relationship with Sarasvati, I guess... I visit her temples often enough) but I hold strong values of learning, wisdom and will. I will not kowtow to fools. Ignorance without a desire for correction of that state is abominable. Some people know what they know, and go no further. These people are merely stepping stones on the path to enlightenment.

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Fauve

Caw Caw, Caw Caw, Caw Caw.
To comprehend a crow
You must have a crow’s mind.
To be the night rain,
Silver, on black leaves,
You must live in the
Shine and wet. Some people
Drift in their lives:
Green-gold plankton,
Phosphorescent, in the sea.
Others slash: a knife
At a yellow window shade
Tears open the light.
But to live digging deep
Is to feel blood
In you rage as rivers,
Is to feel love and hatred
As fibres of rope,
Is to catch the scent
Of a wolf, and turn wild.
--Arthur Sze

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