Ahem, well, where should I start? My name? Good, good.
Hi, my name's Jonathan Ward. Nice to meet ya. I was born in Wrightwood California (something I'm not entirely proud of) on February 19th 1983. I'm seventeen (as of writing this), so don't bother adding it up. I'm from a family of ten, including myself. I have three sister's, four brother's and a mama an' papa. I'd give you a detailed list of them, but you all came here for me. You don't want to hear about them.
If a description's what you want, a description you will not receive. If it's not a description you want, you will not recieve it, either. And if you just don't care... Oh, screw it!
I just can't sum myself up. I'm not entirely sure why, perhaps I hate myself, but it's something I have trouble with.
I'll give you this though: I'm tall. 6'4" is what everyone's tellin' me. I tend to believe this since everyone I know personally is shorter or equal to my height. That or maybe it's because that's what the "measurement" gizmo says.
I was born into a Christian Fundamentalist Homeschooling™ family. ...I think.  | | I just noticed this... But I've got a gigantic head! |
Which sounds like a really bad thing. I assure you, it can get ugly. But my parents weren't as extreme as many other's I've seen in my insignificant little lifetime. I was allowed to play video games, watch TV... Basically the stuff I'm doing today. So it couldn't have been that bad. Could it have?
I've lived in the same area all my life. Which to some could be a good thing and to other's it could be a bad thing. I'm torn between both. It's smack dab in the middle of nowhere. I no longer live in Wrightwood, but it's not too far from there. Go ahead, look it up on a map. I like being in the middle of nowhere most of the time, but there are times when I just can't stand it. Those times are usually when I'm downloading an 80MB file off the Internet at 56K speeds instead of xDSL or cable. But hey, you can't have everything. You can come close, though.
Okay, my schoolin' life. As I said above, I was homeschooled. If you don't know what homeschooling is, do a search on Google or any other search engine and I'm sure you'll find many, many site's out there dedicated to it. As for me, you could say I'm still homeschooled, but I don't like that title nearly as much as 'unschooled'. Unschooling may be exactly what you think it is -- no school what-so-ever. It's not totally like that, though. Whatever you want to call it, I've been waiting for it my whole life. And I had gotten it just a few years ago. I was playing video games with Jesse, and my Mom walks into the room and asks me if I'd like to 'do whatever I wanted for school' I honestly didn't know what she meant, but I liked the sound of it.
This was the turning point of my entire life. Once this happened, I felt like I was actually in control of my life. I felt I could think for myself. But that wasn't the result of not having to be forced to do school, this was also the time when my parents  | | I didn't mean to sit on her... Honest. |
were ridding themselves of their Fundamentalist ways and turning to the Dark Side... Yeah. And ever since then, I felt I was able to question life, God and my religion... You know, the basics. It was also at this time when I really started getting into secular music. Sure, I owned a single Pennywise and Face To Face album before, but I was more or less listening to it because Jesse did. After this, I started hearing the words these bands were singing. I liked what I heard. After this, I was also able to buy secular music without having it tested. Before, my parents wanted to see if Jess thought it was okay for me to listen to it.
Anyway, back to the schoolin'. If I could do whatever I wanted, it seems logical that I wasn't learning at all. Wrong. Dead wrong. I've learned much more than I ever would have if it wasn't for this insane, yet cool move my parents pulled. I'm actually learning what I want to. And at my own pace. If I find something that really interest's me, I'll look into it further. Like most people would, I'm sure. But I can do it all with my own time and at my own pace... Uhm, those two things are basically the same, aren't they? Doh...
People often ask me about my social life. What about it? I hardly ever answer the question because I really don't know how to answer it. Define 'social life'. Is that where you have a whole lot of 'friends' that will let you down eventually? If so, I'm happy right where I am, thank you very much.
By the way, if I wanted to, I could be in a public school tommorow. I specifically choose not to go.
My interests are easy enough to figure out. All you really have to do is look around my site a bit. But my main one's are video games, computer's, drawing/art, programming, toys and music... I like reading too.
Which reminds me, reading was one of the things pushed on me when I was homeschooled. After my parents let me choose to unschool, I hardly read any books at all. Until recently, that is. I've just got into reading. When I wasn't reading, I believe the 'wounds' were healing. Also, when I was homeschooled, math was forced on me. I hated it. A lot. I'm still a bit woozy about math, but I'm trying to get into it!  | | Man, if I were any cooler, it'd hurt! |
Anyway, back to my interest's. There are other's besides those listed above, I'm just not going to go through them all.
I've been into video games all my life. My first video game system was a Coleco Vision. That thing's around here somewhere. My favorite game for it is a tie between River Raid and Donkey Kong. Zaxxon was cool though.
My first computer was an Apple IIe, and my favorite game for that would have had to definitely be Load Runner, closely followed by some pinball game.
I listen to a variety of music. But I mostly listen to symphonic, orchestra and anything similer to that. The majority of it is video game stuff. I also listen to punk rock. Bands that come to mind are Pennywise, The Vandals, Millencolin, NOFX, No Use For a Name, Ghoti Hook, Guttermouth, Bad Religion and so on. I'm not going to name them all. But I can stand most any genre with the exception of rap and country.
I live in a rural area. It's a really nice place to live. It's a great area for dirt biking and so forth. Plus, there are signs of alien life all over the place. From the big-ass building a few miles away that suddenly disappeared to the area surrounding it with camera's all over the place... Very nice. Just try riding around there, you'll fear for your life.
Gosh... I'm not sure what more I can say about it. That just about sums all that up.
So I leave you with that. If I can think of something more to add, I'll add it.
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