Greetings and welcome to my site. As you can see my name is Ryan. Its Fairy for "King." As you can tell I've gotten a grip of the html now but it might be some time before this site is as impressive as I'd like it to be. I have some pics of myself up and some of my friends. This site will be full of info about me and my interests, including links to related topics and my own comments. I have a page that contains my weekly thoughts and comments on life. It's called Ryan's Rants: check it out.

Now some info about me:

I am a 22yr old from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. I am currently doing my best to study psychology at the University of Saskatchewan , in Saskatoon. Its a great place to be. We have a rather open minded campus for the prairies. There is an extremely active gay presence on campus with GLUS the U Of S non-heterosexual campus club that has been active since 1971 and the opening of the U of S Lesbian Gay Bisexual Center last year.

I adore Star Trek, I practically live it. If I could have any wish at all, it would be playing the guest character of any Star Trek series episode that the plot revolves around... not that that is very rare. Perhaps I could be the focus of a DS9 mystery, or the escaped hostage from an aggressive alien race on Voyager.

About six months ago I was dumped. I wasn't exactly in the best mood. Actually I was probably in the most depressed mood I've been in...ever(except when my dog died!). But I was very lucky I have friends and family that saw the symptoms and did whatever they could to help. If you want to know if someone that you care about is depressed you should check out this link. It tells you how to identify when someone is depressed.

I have since become in a much better mood and am now working on improving my relationship choices, self-esteem, and over all mental stability. With a counsellor. If you'd like to follow the story then click here. for a descritpion of the break up and my feelings on it at the time with updated comments along the way.

I have been active in the Saint Thomas More Student's Union (STM that's my college) as the VP Promotions. This year I've decided not to be the VP Promotions for STMSU but rather to get involved with GLUS. I'ver recently been given the position of President. Since I have experience working with student groups and I know a bit about how student pollitics works on campus and I've got some really good ideas for the group this year I think I'm gonna do a good job.

I am also involved with my local church. Everyone there, as my mother has told me, knows that I'm gay. She also tells me that no one has a problem with it, which makes sense since she also tells me that I'm amongst numbers there. One of our past ministers (actually two its rumored) was gay, but she moved to Seattle to do youth ministry there. The United Church is very gay friendly, if not simply in an official status but the majority rules and there was a national vote on it in the church in 1988. That rocks. That's part of why I was on my congregation's Christian education committee, central board, and occasionally help out with services.

I am currently on the Long Range Planning Committe for the United Church of Saskatchewan and look forward to some great things coming out of its work. In the passed I have served on other committees at the Conference (provincial) level. I have been a member of the Youth and Young Adult Committee (YAYAC) (1992-96), the Worship Committe for the Conference Annula Meeting(1993), and the Implamentation Committee of Saskatchewan Conference(1996-97).

Now that I know how to do some html, check out the rest of my website! It'll get better. I swear...not very often but I do.

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