So you want to know more about the man behind csd? O-kay!

I'm a 24-year-old ex-college student living in Raleigh, North Carolina, a former barista, a waiter by trade. I smoke too much and drink too much coffee. I am in an extremely happy, giving relationship, and I will scream to all 768 million Internet readers out there that I am in love. And given to extreme amounts of hyperbole and whatever the opposite of that is (it's not hypobole, which makes me sad). Artificial orange flavour is one of my favourite flavours.

I enjoy taking liberties with the English language, like making up words and using strange word orders, and putting pen (or pencil, or oil pastel, or watercolour brush, or charcoal) to paper and drawing abstract things. Oil paint on canvas has become my favourite medium of late. I've tried my hand at realism and only ended up with stylisation. Computer games are fun, and I waste plenty of time every day playing them.

I used to build for MUDs, and was quite active at TMC in the Builders' Forum. I don't do this anymore, but I still maintain the online documents I've written. And no, I have no interest in building again. MUDs were fun for a while, but they just became too much. It started to feel more like work than like fun, and that's when I knew it was time to call it quits. I don't regret it at all; I met a lot of great people and honed my writing skills. And I even got away with doing the whole dark-and-bloody-temple area, too. Of course, it was good, while most dark-and-bloody-temples are not. Okay, maybe it wasn't so good, but it was Lovecraftian. And that was fun. Oh yes, I like H.P. Lovecraft.

Unlike the many other Bloodroses out there, I'm not goth, I'm not into metal music, I don't try to be melodramatic, I'm not a band, I'm not heartsick poetry and I'm certainly not a jar of bath salts. It's only an Internet alias, one that's as likely to change or vanish altogether as the others I've had have. In fact, it's pretty much already changed. And I am certain that I am the only Vireyar out there.

That's all for now. In The Future© I might expand this to include more stuff about me, like my book collection and musical tastes, but for now, I want to go to sleep.