DarkCloud: No, although I live less than 30KM from a prominent Apolyton poster. (Let the speculation begin, if ye so wish- but I ain't tellin'- yet, because, in the immortal words of Hydey or Alexander's Horse: "I'm not telling you where I live because I don't want you to come down here and rape me" ;))

Although, on second thought, I did meet one Apolytoner. I invited a person I knew who was involved in Earth:2025 to Apolyton's Earth:2025 clan.  He registered with some strange Elven-Everquest name... I can't remember it exactly. He posted about two or three times in the Earth:2025 section before OmniGod and Ribannah got into their little spat which ended with the Apolyton Earth:2025 clan breaking apart.

I have tried to recruit several people I know in real life to Apolyton, but they don't understand forums or my fascination with them. Oh well. I remember one person volunteered to spam apolyton and see what he could do to get himself banned after I finished a lecture on the forum, I nearly gave him the address too, however, it's probably for the better that he didn't join as he was planning to access Apolyton from my place of work and insult the site owners. [This would most likely have resulted in him being accused of being my DL and me receiving a ban, permaban, or [the worst punishment imaginable- a PCR], so it's probably for the best ;)]

DarkCloud: What is your occupation in real life? (if you are a student, then what would be the profession that you would prefer to practice?)

DarkCloud: Well, right now I'm a student, and have been a student for many a year.
However, I also write. I write a lot. My dream is to, one day, become a published author. As it is, I have submitted several Sci-Fi and Fantasy shorts to "The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy" and all have been rejected, although one, "Yellow" received a favorable rejection (If one can say such a thing exists), thus, I think I'll submit "Yellow" to "Asimov's Science Fiction and Fantasy" next.  (Asimov's is the second largest sci-fi magazine, the first being Analog, the 3rd being the Mag of F&SF, and the 4th being Interzone)
"Yellow" is a tale about a janitor who is not quite what he seems and a spaceship full of aliens in orbit around Jupiter. The story brings to mind Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud" for some of its action.  It is generally blasè in tone, but carries the reader through fairly quickly.
"cat." is another tale which received a mild rejection.  I submitted "cat." to "Black Gate" Magazine. "Black Gate" is a fantasy quartelrly.  The rejection letter detailed how I could possibly improve the story. Now, generally I would have followed the suggestions and resubmitted the story, however, although the suggestions were good, the problem was that if I was to implement them, I would have to rewrite the story and change the tone.  (Now, I may do that anyway if I get desperate enough, but I have faith in some of my other stories, namely my Novel,
SOCKS [98.5% completed as of today, All that needs to be done is a little fact checking and proofreading on one or two suspicious pages] SOCKS is a spy-spoof told from the perspective of the bad guys ;)), my Fantasy Novel [Which is currently under construction of its first draft] and is already about 135 pages long, with a planned 200-300 pages yet to be done, and two sequels in the works... I suppose the closest fantasy to my fantasy is Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Saga. If I had to cite a direct inspiration, that would be it, although the story itself is my own idea. Book I deals with a party of seven trekking across the Great Basin, heading to Holy Oblisk to warn the monks of a Crusade against them.
Also in the tale are; a Light God, A Dark God, demons, fairies, political intrigue, assassinations, rebellions, revolts, suspicion, etc.

As for short stories, I have a few in the works other than "Yellow", namely "Satan.com" in which the Devil gets a Web Domain [very humorous], and "Termites" a Sci-Fi story of an alien civilization of intelligent Termites.

Since I cannot easily make a living as an author when I leave college, I suppose I'll become either an Economist, Statistician, Accountant, Editor, Librarian, Philosopher, Historian, Physicist, or something else. Although, 'Editor, Librarian and Philosopher' are unlikely as they don't pay very well.

[If you wish to see any free tales, you could search in the Alpha Centauri Fiction section for an unfinished 30-40 page humorous Semi-Spy tale entitled University Saga at...
- For Book I
- For Book II

Or you could read about the continuing adventures of Markos and Dan in The Charioteers Campaigns, a civ3 tale

DarkCloud: Would would be the crowing achievement in list compilation that you aspire to?

DarkCloud: I suppose my crowning achievement in list compilation would be ot have a fully complete tome of The Apolyton 100 with all correct information and every story about all the top 100 Apolytoners.