I'll carry on with the international replies...

My name's Andrew, I turned 27 a couple of months ago and I'm from just outside the city of Bath in South-West England. After tomorrow I'll be unemployed once again (temp job ending) and I'm hoping that I'll be able to find something in the editorial side of publishing (magazines) instead of another "because I need the money" job that involves 'phoning people all day.

I got a BA degree in American Studies because the course included a year at SUNY New Paltz and since I graduated in 2003 I've managed to do 2 Manhattan-based internships as well as visit friends a few times. I really, REALLY want to get back to the US to live but getting residency & work permits is incredibly difficult. I'm smart (picked out & tested with a 147 IQ when I was 8...) and highly adaptable, so if any of you guys know of ANY businesses that'd employ a foreigner like me please let me know...!

I got into GI Joe back in 1986 when it was still called Action Force in the UK. Palitoy stopped producing them and Hasbro did it themselves, with packaging in the same style as the US Joes and a marketing blitz of commercials, cartoon videos, comics... They appealed to me, then when I was given Zartan v1 I was hooked -- a highly-detailed, well-articulated action figure with accessories including a disguise, a personal vehicle and a colour-change feature that didn't involve water -- how could any 6-year-old boy not find that the coolest action figure ever? My love of the line never waned (I still have that Zartan...) and when it came back in '02 my collecting exploded.

Besides Joes I'm a HUGE comics fan, mainly Marvel Universe but I'd love to have the time & money to read everything. My Marvel Legends collection is the only other toy line I'm really dedicated to. I also like SF/Fantasy TV & movies, particularly Star Wars AND Star Trek, and am trying to read more books than just Terry Pratchett and Star Wars novels... I'm a fan of animation, mainly 80s-90s action-adventure stuff and comedy from Animaniacs to Family Guy -- another dream of mine is to do voice acting. I own quite a lot of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but I've not had anyone to game with for about 8-9 years.

I love to travel when I can afford to, and there's a bunch of things I'm trying to develop with varying levels of commitment including writing, juggling, playing the bass guitar I bought 5 years ago, cooking, personal fitness and general self-motivation!