Books! and Addictions

So, I think we have established by now that I am a geeky, nerdy dork. I play WoW and I love to read science fiction/fantasy novels. More fantasy than science fiction, but I won't turn my nose up at anything. The thing about fantasy and science fiction books are that they more aften then not come in a series. My favorite two being Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series and Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series. I have read and enjoyed the Harry Potter series and recently I got started on the Twilight series.

Before I continue, I have this really addictive personality when it comes to books (and other things). I will read a book like five or six times if I really enjoy it, and not in like several years but all with in several weeks of each other. For instance, with the series' mentioned above (excluding Twilight) everytime a new book would be released I would reread the entire series before I read the book. So there are 11 books currently in the Wheel of Time series meaning I have read the first book 11 times or more. With Twilight I have finished my third time through the series today, just three weeks after picking it up for the first time. I read it twice through before my wife read it once through. Now I don't do that for every series I read (Lord of the Rings), but I do with most series.

As of right now, no one reads this blog, but in the happenstance that some one reads this blog, What are your favorite books, and what are your addictions?

Why Jork?

Well anyone who has come in to contact with me recently knows that I play WoW (world of warcraft). My main character's name is Jork. Since I was in 8th grade my main email account has been Shepherd57@aol.com. Now I don't really use that email alot because I mostly use my school account email, but it is a long time to have the same email address. When playing video games I usually use the name Shepherd, but when I started playing WoW I wanted a name that was easy to type for other players. I came around to Jork because I thought WoW was a classically dorky thing to do thus making me a dork. Well my name begins with a J so I thought J+Dork=Jork.

So all that to get to my point, "Why Jork?" Well, I am going to be pretty open here and let everyone know my name is James Johnson so why use this alias. In WoW I can speak to other players using a microphone and everyone knows me as Jork. In the short time I have been playing WoW, I have really identified with the name and I think as far as usernames go Jork isn't all that bad. Sadly most usernames and email addresses require you to use more than four characters.

Which brings me to my point, I like the name Jork and that's all there is to say.

First Blog

This is my first blog. My name is James Johnson and I live in Chattanooga, TN although my wife insists that we live in East Ridge. I will probably use the alias (blown by my name above) Jork seeing as how the site is called "The Misadventures of Jork." I have used social networks such as Myspace and Facebook to blog, but haven't generally kept a blog up because my thoughts tend to bore me so why should I bore those around me? I enjoy playing WoW (World of Warcraft). My father-in-law got me started playing and I inturn got my wife playing. I am currenly working full time (32 hours) in an accounting department while taking night classes for my Masters in Education. My undergrad degree was in Mathematics (everyone's favorite subject). I have applied for a few Math positions but haven't heard anything back of note yet.

I attend Church and met my awesome friends through the Sunday School program. The only friend that I have mantained through grade school and college actually married my wife's twin sister. While I am an only child, I have always though of him as a brother and it is sort of nice having a legal tie (besides WoW) that keeps us together though his education has taken him out of the city.

Hopefully I will write more and frequently, I decided to make this blog out of an impluse so who knows how this goes. I will try and make a weekly blog, but I would hope that enough interesting stuff happens for me to do this daily.