Reading and Writing
Johnson, Josh

>>JOSH: I guess I come from a family of readers. Some of my earliest memories, not just of childhood stories, my mom reading us books at night. It was my sister in second grade I guess going through Hardy Boys books like it was nothing. My dad would always carry a book around in the trunk of the car so if he ever got in an awkward social situation he could just pretty much shut down and read instead. I'm actually kind of the nonreader of the family, I mean compared to the rest of them I never really did a lot of writing or reading or what not comparatively; but that's also like me saying I'm not a Jimmy Buffet fan, I'm the son of one. I still listen to Jimmy Buffet all the time. I think as much reading and writing that my whole family, my mom, dad, and sister, did in my entire childhood that it wasn't until I got to college that I kind of broke out and figured out that I kind of liked it as my dad and sister do. My dad's an engineer and my sister went on to become a veterinarian. I've just been around reading and writing my whole life; it's always been a part of everyday life for me. And there you go. 

>>SPEAKER: What are you doing now?

>>JOSH: What am I doing now? I'm getting a degree in professional and technical writing with a minor in mathematics and I think I do that just to upset everybody both in the rhetoric department and the math department. I'm currently working in digital rhetoric, it's kind of my specialty in the program. I'm getting a writing degree and spending more time playing with toys actually than I am writing. [Laughing] It's a really fun program and I've had some really wonderful writing projects. I've done some autobiography writing and memo writing that's really, really fun. I learned a whole lot not just about writing itself but about myself through that process.