Another Fantasy Bio:

TJ Seitz is a 36 year old high school graduate who lives in the basement of his parent’s house.
He’s never worked a job or gone out on a date. He does not own a cell phone or Ipod. He spends his days sleeping in and stays up all night playing video games, surfing the internet and watching videos. Sometimes he reads books on Buddhism and writes essays.

He has no ambitions or goals beyond living one day at a time and feels there’s no driving need to leave his home or change his behaviors. He is content with his current life.

In jest, at his High School graduation party, TJ’s parents bought him a single lottery ticket for a jackpot worth several million dollars. The voucher was supposed to be a novelty gift. They assumed that TJ had a ghost’s chance in Hell of actually winning and thought that the loss would lead to the age old conversation about whether TJ wanted to attend college or start a career.

Instead it turned out to be a single winning ticket for the entire prize. TJ immediately hired a financial adviser, attorney and accountant then invested his winnings.

He was set for life and his parents felt humbled.

Fantasy Bio:

The day TJ Seitz turned 43 he bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle and laptop computer. The next day he woke up, got his kids on the school bus, kissed his wife good-bye, went to work and quit his job. By 9AM he was on his way to Burlington Vermont where he met up with the 18 year old daughter of a woman he dated in college and headed for the Florida Keys.

Today TJ Seitz lives on the Caribbean Island of Martinique with his young lover where he runs a small computer repair shop that caters to tourists and locals. After hours and weekends TJ can be found patronizing local cafes with his laptop or debating island politics over a bottle of cheap rum.

Reality Bio:

On the surface TJ Seitz appears to be a quintessential middle aged male. He’s married to his HS sweetheart and lives with his family (3 kids, a dog, 5 cats, 4 guinea pigs, a rabbit and a leopard gecko) in a suburban split level ranch located on the outskirts of Rochester, NY.

TJ spent 20 years in the field of government IT before shifting his career path towards procurement. Learning why/how things work, “pushing buttons” and “stirring the pot” (instigating) have always been inherent weaknesses for Mr. Seitz so administrating computers and contracts within large bureaucracies comes natural for him.

While working full time, TJ also attended college part time (and sometimes full time). To keep himself (relatively speaking) sane he majored and minored in non-technology subjects, earning a BA in English with a writing concentration from Saint John Fisher College and a MA in Social Policy Empire State College.

He studied with George Saunders and Judith Kitchen (though neither teacher would probably remember him). Distractions like kicking virtual wasp’s nests on BITNET Listservs (predecessors to social networking sites like Facebook), soliciting donations for a Panty Alter fund and hanging out with a heavily medicated professional drummer named Dirtbag interfered with TJ’s ability to write anything particularly noteworthy for either class. He also attended a workshop at the Omega Institute mentored by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood.

In reality the stable full time jobs have been serving as functional fronts for TJ’s secret life as a writer. They provided him with money to pay his bills and experiential material to write about. The down side of working in IT and going to college was that he did not have a lot of time to devote to writing and publishing. Adding a problematic first marriage, babies and divorce to the mix did not help much either.

TJ’s essays and letters have been printed in both local and national publications. His poetry has been published both United States and England.

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