Introductions: The Inauguraling

I'm not technically new but there are so many people here I don't know now I thought I should introduce myself again

hi I'm ari
I haven't been here in... several years(?) because I went to university and it took up a lot of time, but I finished that and now I have a piece of paper in a tube and a funny-looking hat
I used to do a forum adventure about a giant cyclops trying to learn a language but had to put it on indefinite hiatus, also because of university

I like birds