Tom's Questionnaire

I live in one of those like "van life" type things. It's very good for travelling around to view geologic structures. Occasionally I stay with my parents who live in the middle of nowhere in Florida. The van has a bed that folds up to become a chair and table, and a small hot plate and sink with a water supply. I rely on campsites and road stops for going to the bathroom. The wall behind the bed against the cab has a collection of rocks set into it. He has a cat that has a little hidy hole cat tree where the passenger seat should be. There is a small solar panel on the roof and a wood stove inside with a chimney that can be popped on the top.

I get my money by finding samples and doing field work for various geological expeditions. I go to places out in the wilderness where the other nerds are too frail to go to. I also get money from my parents as they are slightly wealthy. I spend my mon y on food and fuel for my van. I also spend it keeping the van nice and working. I spend a good amount of money paying off the van. I have a little saved up, but as a freelance scientist, money is tight. The only way I am able to sustain this lifestyle is because of the help from my parents.

I just am bored of all the rocks. I want to make new cooler rocks and make my own unnatural sediments and metamorph new metamorphic rocks. I want to cause new mountain ranges and shift the plates, cause earthquakes to see what happens in real time. Of course, I would do it in relatively unpopulated areas, I'm thinking Russia or northern Canada would be good locations with not much damage to people or structures. I would rather not kill to get this done, but if I have to in self defense, then so be it. I would happily use people for this end, unfortunately I'm not that good at manipulating, but I'll try. I want to avoid death at all costs, so I'll throw other people into the danger for me, and I really don't like getting hurt.

The most defining event of my life was when I was a young lad and I went to the grand canyon. I was absolutely taken with its beauty and wanted to know everything about it. I was about 15 and my parents took me on a day hike and I saw all the layers of sediment and was fascinated by it all. I wanted to know why and how something like that could happen. It set me on my path to becoming a geologist after which I have visited it many times to do research. It gave me my fascination  with all the rocks and stuff.