JackRubashevskiy (the alliterator)

alriiiight. so here we go.

as you might have gathered, my name is not jack. nor is my last name rubashevskiy, but it could have been at one point. it is all now just a pen name. i live in british columbia, canada, and attend the university of british columbia on the okanagen campus. i love it here, as i am surrounded my mountians, forests, and a lake. i don't think i can ever leave the water for too long, as i grew up on an island, as well. it has become part of me, really.

enough sappy stuff now. at ubc:o i'm what you could call a cultural anthropology major, but really it is just cultural studies. because of the nature of my courses, i will also be either minor or double-major in english as well. so naturally writing is a past-time of myself, hence i am here, duh. i also took some language courses, such as french and russian. a trivial fact:  i can no longer handwrite in english, only russian. one day you'll see that on jeopardy or something. really, you will.

fantasy is my genre of choice, though i branch into sci-fi on rare occasions. same goes for my reading material. big influences include tad williams, sergei lukyanenko, r a salvatore, j r r tolkien, ursula k le guin,  c s lewis, greg keyes, and dr seuss. really. one fish two fish red fish blue fish made my life. it sits beside my copy of homer's odyssey on my bookshelf. no lies.

all time fav's.

war of the flowers, by tad williams
the night watch, by sergei lukyanenko
homer's odyssey

recently finished.

the kite runner, by khaled hosseini

currently devouring.

things fall apart, for world lit. class
to terra, volumes I-III, for japanese pop culture class

feebly attempting to pen down.

the Red King Chronicles

completely random pet peeve.

i hate using the same word more than once in a piece of writing. be it a noun, adjective, verb, adverb in an essay, narrative, or lyric, i just hate it. it makes me feel like i'm repeating myself, which i do often enough ai-are-el, so i best not do so on paper.

random fact of the moment.

i detest using chat-speak or typing liek dis, lol. however, i am more than happy to use msn abbreviations in everyday speech. yes, it is a bit of a paradox, but it works for me.

for the soviets out there.

привет. моя завут джах, и моя фамилия рубашевский. я живу в виктории и также келовна, британский колумбие. я учусь англискии-язык в университете. я говорим англиский, французкий, и плохо русккий. пока!

j.A.c.k. Рубашевский