I just submitted a bio for the "Athens Picture Show" program, which will be including "Failing the Dover Test." I find writing bios to be weird anyway, and doing it in 2-3 sentences is particularly surreal. How the heck do you sum up three and a half decades of life with less than a sentence per decade? Fortunately, much of my life isn't terribly relevant to the event, so I can leave out most of it. Here's what I came up with:
Jason arrived in Athens in 2000 after a circuitous journey that included two Master's degrees from Indiana University and a brief stint moving stacks of cardboard 50 feet at a potato chip plant north of Kansas City. He currently works at UGA and also does freelance web and software development through Transparent Media, Inc.Posted by Jason at May 25, 2004 11:00 AM