History, geography, anthropology, museums, education, comedy and improv and being ridiculous, laughing, football, baseball, soccer, jogging in the rain, kayaking, skiing, mountains, nature, writing, poetry, chess, eating healthy, traveling all over the great Northwest, historical non-fiction, Australia, the ocean(s), roadtrips, skating through life in debt with crappy medical insurance (or none at all), Bushisms, Oregon, teaching, coaching baseball, graphic design, creative writing, TESOL/ESL and working with immigrants and especially exchange students, the idea of one day not being in debt and actually being done with school so I can *make* money for a change, my friends. Oh, and coconut and pineapple, lol. I put pineapple in pasta and I'd pretty much flavor everything with coconut if I could.
...all things Jersey!!
Music:
Rock, soul, punk, alternative, motown, R&B and country.
Movies:
Dumb & Dumber, Tommy Boy, Groundhog Day, etc. Comedies! And things like Gladiator, Amistad, On The Waterfront, dramas, documentaries, etc., lots. "What About Bob?" might be old school but it's my favorite movie. And -- "Uncle Buck" -- lol, come on now; "Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face." :-)
Television:
tel·e·vi·sion - /'t?l??v???n/ - [tel-uh-vizh-uhn]
An electronic box that sucks life and community away from society and forcibly taketh away Dave's focus and concentration on more important things; a wonderful invention that has evolved into nonetheless into the progressive demise of America's social fabric; that thing that I really like cuz every now and then I get to laugh at SNL or South Park or the Colbert Report or Seinfeld, but, which controls my mind with propaganda and savvy advertising in such a discrete manner that I've chosen to simply do without cable anymore :-)NFL football -- I bleed Philadelphia Eagle green. :-).
Books:
The Audacity of Hope (Obama); Walden (Thoreau); Small Wonder (Kingsolver)
Heroes:
Darwin, Thoreau, MLK Jr, Ben Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chris Farley, and good people. I mean, good, moral people -- people who find money on the street and don't take it as their own; people who go out of their way for others; kind people who keep on keepin' on amidst a cruel world; people of character who work hard and believe in doing the right thing.
My brother, Jim
Favorite movie ever:
What About Bob?
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My Schools:
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
Degree: Master's in Teaching
Secondary ed with certification in social studies & TESOL
Present AmeriCorps!
Bellingham, WA
AmeriCorps = cool!
2006 to 2007 Stockton College
Pomona, NJ
Graduated: May 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: B.A., History
2002 to 2006 Middle Township High School
Cape May Court House, NJ
Graduated: June 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Diploma1998 to 2002
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My Job:
AmeriCorps*VISTA
Washington Reading Corps
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
August 2006-August 2007
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