[Public] Journal Entry: Introduction: Daniel Jackson

[om_thoth]

Hi, everyone. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Daniel Jackson. I'm what you could call a New York native, although I've only been living here permanently for the last few years. Before that, I spent most of my life in and around archaeological digs throughout the world, though my parents' specific expertise was in the Old Kingdom era of Egyptian history. Think pyramids.

I'm in my sophomore year of high school, though from what I've heard, this school doesn't necessarily have 'grade levels'. At least not how most American schools seem to.

If anyone is interested in history, anthropology, archaeology, or linguistics, I've also got a Tumblr [link] that I update pretty regularly.

Comments

[om_impulse]

Anthropology...does that mean you can explain what I missed growing up fast? There's all this stuff people think I should know being an American teenager, and you can't really learn that from a computer.

[om_thoth]

I didn't really live in America a lot, so I wouldn't say that I'm the best at being an American teenager, but I can try? What do people think you should know?

[om_impulse]

Sometimes it feels like everything. Until I got here, I'd never heard of basketball or Sesame Street or, well, all sorts of stuff. My parents were more concerned about me being able to at least learn and communicate on some level, even if it took forever to get responses.

[om_thoth]

Why would there have been a problem communicating?

[om_impulse]

My mutation is superspeed. I did everything fast, even growing up until Dr. McTaggart fixed things. So for me, seconds can feel like days. And I still have problems slowing down.

[om_thoth]

That's got to be difficult. I wouldn't worry too much about experiences. Everyone has different things that they remember from growing up. I didn't see Sesame Street, I saw Shalom Sesame.

How old are you really?

[om_impulse]

What's that?

Oh, I'm two and a half, but we think I'm maybe fourteen, physically.

[om_thoth]

And fourteen mentally or somewhere in between?

[om_impulse]

I'm not sure how to answer that. I don't know what a fourteen-year-old would actually know. I didn't get to meet a lot of people before coming here, and my parents were worried about how long I was going to live and how they could give me anything close to a normal life.

[om_thoth]

You certainly speak more coherently than a two year old. I suspect what you need now is just experience. Experience and knowledge.