Introduction

[OK, so, hiya...]

[Name: Huntington William Sharp (yes, my real name. I'm Huntington the Third, though Huntington William the First. It's a pretentious, unwieldy, and pretty cool family name.]
[Nickname: Bill. My dad is "Hunt." At law school (J.D., 2004, New Coll. of Calif.) and at my internship, I experimented with going by the full "Huntington," and am doing it again at my new job, too.]
[City: San Francisco, California, USA. (Specifically, downtown. No, not Lower Nob Hill or the Tenderloin; downtown.)]

[DOB: 10 June 1969
Height: 5'11
Weight: Oh, no. Let's just say I'd like to lose a little.
Eyes: Hazel. The ol' change-to-match-what-I'm-wearing shuffle; corrective lenses (passe dotcom nerd specs or (rarely) contacts.)
Hirsute. Love me, love my hair.
Ethnicity: Generally British-American. The name's a dead giveaway: I sound like the Lord of the Manor (or his snooty butler), with a California accent. Apparently there's some German and French back there, and family legend throws in a little Native American ancestry as well.
Kinsey: 5.75 (Just a whiff to make it interesting...)

[What is this site? Because I don't really get the whole segregation between online diaries and weblogs, this project has turned into a hybrid. It began with an annotated transcription of a couple of paper journals I wrote between 1996 and 1998, and has continued into today, with whatever I feel like jotting down.]

[What's with all the [brackets?] Well, my coding skills, minimal today, were nonexistent when I began this, so the only way I could think to set off my present-day comments from the stuff I was transcribing was to put the former in brackets. Now that I'm only writing about now, I've decided to keep everything bracketed. If you're going thru the archives, those entries without brackets, or with some writing bracketed and some not, are old paper diary entries, and the comments (if any) in the brackets were written on the date at the very top of the entry. Some of these annotations have themselves become somewhat "dated." (In other words, how I felt about a 1996 entry when I transcribed it in 2000 may not be how I feel about it now.) But I'm not about to go back and annotate the annotations!]

[Loves: My friends, my family, and the fact that my friends are my family, and vice versa; San Francisco; writing; pop music that paddles in the shallow end of alternative (especially early 80s New Wave and synth pop, and anything recent that emulates that sounds); food, drink, merriment; quiet times with my books, maps, email, and recipes.
Loathes: The right wing; people who confuse personal taste with moral imperative; driving in San Francisco; long telephone conversations; monotonous dance music; extremes in weather; beans (but lentils are OK); mayonnaise (unless it's a really strongly flavored aioli, preferably not white.); blog snobbery (i.e., the fact that this is a Diaryland site may actually make you think less of me; fine, I don't want you here anyway.)]

[For some reason, I started spelling "through" "thru" herein. I can't stop now, can I?]

[This entry gives a brief chronology of my life. Have fun!]

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