{"id":5335,"date":"2017-10-23T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=5335"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:59:20","slug":"who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/about-jed\/who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Present: Who I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a writer end editor of software documentation and fiction. I live in a house full of books in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/personal\/interests\/interests.html\">interests<\/a> include discussing language, playing with words, reading fiction, watching movies, playing games, singing <a href=\"https:\/\/constellationpress.com\/rounds\/\">rounds<\/a>, collecting nifty and fun toys and devices of various sorts, and engaging in airy persiflage.<\/p>\n<p>I currently have one sweetie; I\u2019ve been with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/05\/02\/how-i-met-kam\/\">Kam<\/a> since sometime in the early 2000s. We\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyamory\">poly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have no pets, though I petsit for various other people\u2019s pets now and then.<\/p>\n<p>I keep a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/lorem-ipsum\/\">personal blog<\/a> (started in 2001) and I co-write a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/\">words-and-wordplay blog<\/a>. I post intermittently to both. I post more often to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\">Facebook<\/a>. I\u2019m on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/elysdir.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a> and occasionally on <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@elysdir\">Mastodon<\/a>, but almost all of my posts there are condensed versions of my FB posts. (I used to be on Twitter, but I gave up on that around 2024.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the editor-in-chief\/publisher\/owner of a very small ebook-only small press, <a href=\"https:\/\/constellationpress.com\/\">Constellation Press<\/a>, printing or reprinting ebooks of fiction that I love.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/personal\/pgp.html\">public key<\/a>, in the unlikely event that you want to send me PGP-encrypted email.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on the Board of the <a href=\"https:\/\/otherwiseaward.org\">Otherwise Award<\/a> (for speculative fiction that explores and expands our ideas about gender).<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>Some things about me, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m an introvert. I like people, but after I\u2019ve been around them for a while, I get low on social energy and need quiet solo downtime to recharge.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t drink alcohol and I don\u2019t smoke. I drink a little bit of coffee once in a while when I really need to stay awake, but only with a lot of milk and sugar. The only drug I regularly partake of is chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>Well, and Lexapro. I take Lexapro for social anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>Also a couple of other medications for other issues.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m mostly vegetarian. I grew up eating chicken and fish but no red meat; in recent years, I\u2019ve heavily reduced the amount of chicken and fish I eat. I still eat eggs and dairy, and I still sometimes eat chicken or fish for convenience or when I need extra protein, but I\u2019m mostly vegetarian these days.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t cope well with plans changing, unless I know ahead of time that they might change. I particularly don\u2019t cope well with other people unilaterally changing our plans together without telling me.<\/li>\n<li>Being funny is important to me. I like making people laugh.<\/li>\n<li>Being serious is also important to me. In general, I\u2019m pretty sincere, except when I\u2019m being sarcastic.<\/li>\n<li>Kindness is also important to me.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m almost always willing to answer questions about myself, but am reluctant to volunteer information about myself without being asked.<\/li>\n<li>In general, I prefer quietness to loudness. I especially don\u2019t like trying to carry on personal conversations in loud spaces.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m a native Californian.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m white, cisgender male, largely non-disabled, well-to-do, bisexual, and agnostic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a writer end editor of software documentation and fiction. I live in a house full of books in Mountain View, California. My interests include discussing language, playing with words, reading fiction, watching movies, playing games, singing rounds, collecting nifty and fun toys and devices of various sorts, and engaging in airy persiflage. 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