Following the examples here, I'll give a little introduction to Tshern as well. Also, nice to have you here Treantmonk, I have a lot of respect for you due to your Wizard guides, smart posts and helpful attitude. You're the kind of user all communities need.
On to my introduction then. Like I told in another thread, I am a political dissident fighting against the capitalistic engine of destruction, I love human rights, politics and economy. On top of this, I have created a true paradox of life by making a decision of never taking part into a war, even to defend my own country, because I do not consider independence to be worth more than human lives. The paradoxal part is that I have received military training (compulsory around here) as a combat engineer and I was in the officer school as well.
I started my roleplaying with freeform, but got swiftly introduced to D&D and in no time I became the Sage of our group. In a good way, not skipwilliam-ish way. I've been on a four month hiatus from D&D only participating to PbPs as I haven't found a group that stays together until the first session. Very annoying as I have a D&D itch that needs to be scratched.
English is my third language, though I graduated from an IB high school. IB programme was done entirely in English, so that helped me to attain this level of proficiency. Moreover, it is an international programme, so I met a lot of interesting people and my school actually started my deep interest in international economics.
My future is unsettled. I try to get into Turku University to study political history and sociology, but should I fail to get in due to laziness to read for the entrance exams, I will most probably move to Norway for a while. Got a place to work there and so forth. Hope that works out somehow.
In spite of my inner nerdness, I like sports and I've numerous martial arts (most notably Brazilian jiu-jitsu), floorball, soccer and pretty much anything you can play with your friends without too much investment. Unfortunately my 7 year era of competitive swimming ended due to knee problems. Nowadays my neck is waiting for a surgery, my knees are busted, I've broken pretty much all bones in my body, my ankles have to be operated if I snap my ligaments one more time and all that. I suppose that's what you get for being a stupid daredevil as a kid. Well, I still am.
Another passion of mine is music. I listen to all sorts of music, apart from overly capitalistic gansta rap, teenage pop and whatnot. There are exceptions for everything and I, for example, find Aqua's Aquarium to be one of the best pop records in existence due to the amazing lyrics. I've tried to see as many of my favourite bands live as possible. David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Nine Inch Nails, Flogging Molly, Ministry, Rammstein, Rage Against the Machine, you name it.
I appreciate the chance of being here and feel free to contact me. I use my Messenger actively and I try to answer PMs as swiftly as possible. I'd like to get known with you peeps better.