Bio

I’m thirty, or in my thirty-first year if you prefer.  I’m married to a grad-student.  I’m a full-time municipal employee  holding a BS in elementary education and an MFA in creative writing.  Working for a city has nothing to do with the degrees, but figured I should out myself as an MFAer and a failed teacher.

At my heaviest, as far as I know, I weighed 350-ish pounds.  My current weight, which is my lightest to date, is around 240 pounds.  It is still 40 pounds too heavy, though I do look much better than I have in the past.  I have been fat my entire life and I’m looking to change it.

As for the literature, by my estimation, I own around 500 books I haven’t yet read.  Well, maybe that’s a high estimate.  Whatever the true number is, it’s crazy high.  So as I lose weight, hopefully I will read my way through my stack of books.  A kind of literary subtraction, I suppose.  It’s really just another way I over-indulge, so here’s to hoping I find a way to curb this appetite.