MDi of the M Disk Playlist

Yeah, IRL caught up to me....and then two simultanious health setbacks got to me.

Tried to do the prompt thing, made it about halfway through at least!

But the art of online blogging WILL NOT DIE. Not sure what else to put here........so hi.

Well I had a whole thing written up, but CoHost ate the whole thing.

Ah....this really is like the LiveJournal days.

So, short and sweet version: Trying new food, discovering local restaraunts, and getting paid.

1. I am a teacher with over 10 years of education experience who has worked with nearly every age group from 1 year old up to 18 years old.

2. I was diagnosed with autism after I graduated high school.

3. I have lived in three different states.

4. Although I have done video production work for over 20 years, it's almost entirely a hobby. The closest video work I have done that could be considered "professional" is cosplay highlight reels from a few A-Kon's I volunteered at.

5. I go by he/they, mainly because gender is a construct, and I don't believe that anyone's interests, personalities, or philosophies should be limited strictly to their birth gender. Also, I realize that the whole "zomg you're a male teacher AMAZING" or "kids listen to you cause you're a male" thing used to make me feel proud. Now I just side eye those remarks cause again, the gender you were born with has NOTHING to do with what kind of person you want to be.

#11: If you had a mascot to represent you, what would it be?

....I do have a mascot. Their name is MDi. Before MDi, I had been known as Nitro online. But Nitro is such a 2000s alias. And half of the responses to the Nitro name was "lol like WCW Monday Nitro amIrite?" It's not. Then the more I got to introduce M Disk Playlist, more people were calling me M Disk and not Nitro. Flattering but nah. So with bunnycartoon's help (and art, she did al the MDi art too), I came up with MDi as my official mascot/persona/pngtuber/whateveryouwannacall it.

#12: What skill do you want to improve on the most?

Communicating and video production. I mean, I'd like to think that my video editing skills are....well, not amateur. But I am always on the look out for opportunities to improve on my video editing. That's mainly why I make new splash intros every year, just to keep me on my toes, and to see if there is anything I could do now that I couldn't do before.

Communicating has always been an issue for me. I got into education JUST so I could learn how to be a better/more confident communicator. I am definitely better than I was five or ten years ago at this time. I used to HATE hearing myself speak in videos. But the more Gauntlet episodes I did, the more I embraced the idea of hearing my voice.