Joseph Thayer:  

Howdy Y'all, I am now a respectable southern gentleman of high morals, fine sensibilities and good taste. After escaping the unbearable, fiery crucible known as the Windsor Public School System, I moved to the south with my family hoping to find a simpler, slower, more civilized way of life, now gone with the wind, where master and slave... but I digress :-) Instead I ended up in a funky little southern city with a reputation for crime and gangs. (We like to say, New York City got better because all the criminals moved down here!) But it's home and I like it anyway. Actually, it's not that bad; it has heart and soul, some cool people and places and some good stuff to do. (like most places, I guess) I've worked at just about every job there is and finally went to back to school and got my BA at an historically black college here in town. "The blacker the college, the sweeter the knowledge"! I started out to be a medical writer but ended up doing data management (don't ask) on clinical drug trials for 14 years. (I'm the g...Expand for more