I am a shadow

I’ll call myself Manuel for protection purposes.

I’m a university student. I’m a junior, going to my fifth semester at the time of this writing. My major is English.

I’m a writer. I write fantasy, sci-fi, and other genre fiction, along with some autobiographical stuff. I don’t believe in the crap that people say that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, that’s just some people being snobs.

I’m a video game player as well, a Nintendo fan for the most part but can play other stuff from the other companies. My favorite video game series is the Legend of Zelda series.

I like to read a lot; my favorite book is 1984 followed closely by I am Legend, which has become a movie 3 times now. My favorite movie by the way is…Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Yoda is the man…er…the alien…?

Personality wise I’ve been described as Winnie the Pooh characters. As the titular Winnie the Pooh on accounts of looks and as Eeyore, on account to my attitude towards life. I tend to be a procrastinator but I’m trying to get that over with. Later. My favorite color is blue, and my favorite soccer team is Cruz Azul from the Mexican soccer league. My favorite sport to watch is soccer, and during the World Cup time, I have the unique opportunity to cheer for two teams, Mexico and the USA. Granted, I think both teams suck on the tournament because the European teams and Brazil are better. And if they play against each other, I say, may the best team win. I also really love college basketball and football, and I can’t wait for March Madness next year because I know we will do alright. I listen mainly to Latino music and movie soundtracks, like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Yes, I am in fact a huge dork. I tend to be a bit of worrier but it comes with the territory I guess. My psychologist once asked me if I was paranoid. I told her duh! But she said, well yeah, but she meant mean crazy paranoid. I laughed, a lot when she said that. Also, ladies, I’m unavailable because I’m taken by a wonderful girl already.

What is this blog going to be about though? I’m an undocumented student at my university as well. I’m an illegal alien if you want to use that term even though I never will, there is no such thing as illegal people.

So this blog will be about me, what I face, and how I came to be in the privileged position at my university. Blogging will be my outlet for my frustration and thoughts. I will occasionally also write about other things other than immigration and me, mainly video games, movies, books, TV, life, and other musings that my mind stumbles upon.

So, leave a comment if you wish. Positive words are great but I’ll take negative comments as well. God knows that a lot of people hate me and people like me so I’m sure to get those comments. I don’t mind, everyone has the right to their opinion after all. I believe that it is not the voice of the ones that hate me that will bring about my end and deportation, but the silence of those who know me and do nothing.