I am, for whatever it's worth, Hunter Blanks. I think that of all the things I ever wanted to do, it's been to design, but I've written a whole thesis on that matter and you can read that later if you want anyways. I believe in the value based philosophy of Robert Pirsig, and some day, when it's all worked out in my head, I'd like to write down the embodiment of my personal philosophy. That's a time away though.

In other cicles I'm a first year student at Deep Springs College, living in the desert of eastern California. I'm here because it is the only college at which I really felt comfortable staying--even if it's only for two years. We seem to choose a fair spread of courses and jobs out here, and I'm grateful because I don't really know where I'm going in life, and I want to be prepared for whatever comes my way. In that sense, I'm a packrat, and in the real sense, I'm a backpacker and an uncertain naturalist. I don't think I'm the only hand at work in my life, but I hope I am the master of my own designs. I miss the old times before I was born and like to look back on them with a sort of transplanted nostalgia--the old Graeco-Roman comedies and poems, the medieval and renaissance songs in French, nineteenth century novels and turn of the twentieth century short stories.

And so now you've probably heard more than you wanted to hear, which is really all I ever wanted to avoid. But I'm a story that's inevitably changing and so perhaps the poor quality of this snapshot can be attributed to improper film speed or a lack of patience in setting the manual focus and choosing the right moment. If there's one last thing to say, I would have to point out the Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, in both good and bad forms, are driving forces in the world (although maybe that's just Perl talking to me), and that Homer's Odyssey can be a dangerous parallel for anyone whose diminutive is Homer, such as me.

                                          Regards,
                                          Hunter "Homer" Blanks