It all started with a crush.<\/p>\r\n
A pair of them, really.<\/p>\r\n
Though I wouldn't have called them that at the time.<\/p>\r\n
In eighth grade, the most charismatic and interesting kids I knew were actors. I didn't know them well, but I admired them from afar. There were two in particular: a boy and a girl, who seemed to me to be more or less the king and queen of the school's theatre. I had crushes on both of them, though I didn't realize until years later that it wasn't only the girl who I found attractive.<\/p>\r\n
And so in ninth grade, at a new school, I wanted to get involved in theatre. But I knew acting was not for me. And so I signed up for the elective stage tech class.<\/p>\r\n
Which turned out to be exactly my cup of tea, and I took stage tech all four years of high school, and went to the Soviet Union because of it. But that's another story.<\/p>\r\n
The story I'm here to tell is that when I signed up again in tenth grade, there were these two guys in the stage tech class, David VS and David H, and I hit it off with them, and they introduced me to their social group, known as I-Club.<\/p>\r\n
And almost everything in my current life sprang out of that:<\/p>\r\n