What I do for a living is kinda complicated. By day I work as a media/audiovisual specialist for a Medical School in Detroit. Mostly I sit at a computer, and push buttons, but I also get to play with a lot of high tech toys, helping doctors teach medical students. Sometimes I get to do exciting things like make autopsy or sex education videos.
But that's not all I do.
I also sometimes look like a non-simpsonized version of this;
I'm an ordained Unity minister (a liberal denomintaion), but I'm not currently doing full-time "church work." Shortly after I was ordained a few years back, I had to put my new career on hold, and move back to Michigan, to help my elderly mom care for my even more elderly father, through a long illness which after a year and a half he succumbed to....
After doing that and being broke and exhausted I returned to my pre-ministerial career/job at the medical school, because, amongst other readsons, there are no churches in my denomination open in Michigan, and I made a promise to myself that I was staying here in Michigan (despite hating winter) as long as my mother is still alive.
So, most of my ministry type work is now confined to wedding, funerals, and the occasional guest speaking or workshop leading, and some writing. I also moderate an online forum on Sex and Spirituality on an erotic writer's forum site.
Hobbies...Besides beer making, I am a nut about cooking. In fact beer/winemaking is to me a natural extension of my passion for cooking....Plus Jesus had that whole "water into wine" thing going for him, and we know monks make darn good beer!
Oh, don't let the minister thing freak you out...You can still swear around me and I won't blush or anything...I'm extreemly liberal, and pretty irreverant as it is.
Hell, I host an online discussion of sex on a porn board for crissakes! I've heard and seen it all.
Most people who just meet me don't even know I'm one of them...
Oh and my favorite beer is,
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