Who is Bamatick?

Is it possible to be humble and completely amazing at the same time? That's me in a nutshell. I LOVE telling stories about myself, because they are amazing, but I tell them like they are about this person I know, rather than about myself. Here is the template for a Bamatick story:

Oh, that reminds me of a story, because I'm already telling one story, and just thought of a wonderful tangent that is even MORE amazing and or enhances the current story I was telling. So, there I was, in a situation that seems like it's perfect, when from out of nowhere, horrible things happen to me. Isn't that funny?! Look a squirrel!

All of my stories are very entertaining. They all involve some horrible things happening to me, which are also funny. But, they have no point and never end.

Anyway, here's my life's story....
I have a messed up family. Imagine if the Klampet's got with the Addams'. My folks got divorced when I was a wee kid, then remarried (other people) a few years later. I went to twelve different schools, and lived in some scary ass places. But, rather than be "that" statistic, I went the other way and went on to college...twice. I was a Peace Corps volunteer. I speak a bajillion different languages. I love to cook and sew. I also write stories, song lyrics, and I even play the piano a little. I was a school teacher for a while. I taught Spanish, Biology, Physical Science, Earth Science, Geology and Physics. I taught high school and college. Now, I'm a corporate trainer. Somewhere in there, I married Diabla (aka Hester Prynne) , but got two really cool daughters out of her. The Bamatick Story about that is the quentisential. Being single and a nice person blows chunks, by the way.

I listen to ALL kinds of music. Death metal? Yup. Indie Folk? Yup. Country? Rap? Boy bands?! Yup. Yup. Yup. I like what I like and I'm not going to let genre dictate if I like a song or not. Mostly, I listen to something with some purist and pick up a few songs I like.

I LOOOVE movies. Again, no specific favorites. I do tend to like movies with Presidents in them for some strange reason. Naturally, comic book adaptations or any of the big sci-fi epics will be on my list. But I'll watch a chick-flick followed by a bang-bang-shoot-em-up.

Books are hard for me. I don't have the attention span for them usually. I'm better with magazines. But I do love to read.

Recently, and on two separate occassions, people commented on some of my quirks. A friend told me, "When I had you over for dinner, I was telling my family about all of the guests, and when I got to you, I told them that you are the most unpredictable person I've ever met." Then, a few days later, my trainees commented that I was a normal person, but would suddenly get excited for no reason. I decided to show them a neat illustration. In the field of graphoanalysis, people whose handwriting slants upwards are positive people and those whose slants downwards are negative people. Mine looks like a sine curve. One might come to the conclusion that I'm bipolar or something, but that's not what that particular trait reveals. All it says is that I'm unpredictable. I have so many interests and talents, that it's pretty distracting sometimes. I empathize with Robin Williams.

Anyhoo, that's me, a game playing, song writing, stuffed toy making, pie baking, genie out of a bottle.