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Sorry I'm late to the party. I would have arrived sooner, but the Internet is a big place and I got a bit distracted on my way here. You would not believe the stuff that's lurking in the darkened alleys of the Web. I had absolutely no idea that goats were that limber.

But I digress. I'm Mark Siegel and I've been blogging at for the past five years. All of my regular readers have become bored with me, which is why I'm incredibly grateful for this ´óÏó´«Ã½ gig. This should bring me a whole slew of new readers, who in time will also become incredibly bored with me.

I'm an attorney living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In case you don't know where that is, try to summon up a mental image of the United States. You see that big part in the middle? Minnesota is on the northern edge of that midsection, just south of Canada and just east of, well, not much. I'm originally from Wisconsin. That won't mean much if you're not from around here. The two states have occasional border skirmishes, but mostly we keep to ourselves and invent truly awful jokes about one another's football teams.

I work full-time for a department of state government, where I focus on policies related to disability and employment. I have a neuromuscular condition called spinal muscular atrophy, which means I have very little use of my voluntary muscles. I use a wheelchair and breathe with the assistance of a ventilator. When I'm not compulsively blogging, I'm at the movies, reading something from my towering backpile of books and magazines, or otherwise indulging my pop culture/geek obsessions.

You'll find out more about me in the coming weeks, but if you feel like indulging your inner stalker, here's a that a friend of mine did about me a few years ago. He describes me much better than I ever could.

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