The text does not "gloss" the images, which do not "illustrate" the text. For me, each has been no more than the onset of a kind of visual uncertainty, analogous perhaps to that loss of meaning Zen calls a satori. Text and image, interlacing, seek to ensure the circulation and exchange of these signifiers: body, face, writing; and in them to read the retreat of signs.

--Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs

About This Site

How embarrassing that it's taken me this long to get a decent webisite put together. Now that I've joined the ranks of the over-educated and underemployed, my qualifications as a certified geek can be redeemed.

The purpose of this site is manifold. The "Presumably Me" section approximates the "About Me" parts of other sites. In my case, I say "presumably" because any attempt at autobiography is necessarily limited by my own self-awareness and self-perception. Thus, I invite you to read descriptions of who I presume myself to be.

POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS! Please check out the section related to my professional portfolio. I have designed it to provide more than a mere curriculum vitae. You will find concrete examples of my accomplishments and qualifications--and hopefully ways that I can contribute to your organization.

Since everybody else seems to have a weblog to wax philosophic, I figured I might as well join the bandwagon and mouthoff with my own blog. And for everything else that I couldn't fit in, well, of course that's what "et cetera" is for.

News

April 4, 2006 (Toronto, Canada) -- With my blog up and running, all further news updates will be made directly to the Personal Updates part of my blog. You can check it out here.

February 13, 2006 (Chattanooga, TN) -- Just a few more days remain until we depart for Toronto. Andrey's visa is in hand. The last stepping stone is to figure out where we will live until we find an apartment. If all goes well, we will leave Chattanooga on Thursday or Friday and be in Toronto on Sunday or Monday. We'll stop in Cleveland, Ohio, along the way. Cross your fingers for good weather!

January 18, 2006 (Chattanooga, TN) -- Andrey and I continue to hang tight in Chattanooga, waiting for his visa from the Canadian Embassy. He has submitted all the paperwork and passed his medical examination. All we can do is wait, which gives us plenty of time to do nothing. Now I finally can try to get this website up and running the way I want it to!