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Mike

Working Hard

About Me

I am a full time employee and part time student at the Univeristy of Southern Mississippi. I am taking classes, but am in no real hurry to graduate. Life here is pretty fun. I bike, kayak, read, and hang out with my friends mostly.

My Interests

Biking, kayaking, reading, programming, web design, writing, painting.

I'd like to meet:

Jeff Noon, Frank Black, Ivo Watts, more cool people.

Music:

The Cure, Pixies, Skinny Puppy, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, White Stripes, Tori Amos, Michelle Shocked, Rasputina, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, Sky Cries Mary, Dinosaur Jr., Silversun Pickups, Blue Mountain, The Faint.

Movies:

Fight Club, Last of the Mohicans, Carlitos Way, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Ninth Gate, Dune, American Beauty, Slingblade, Ravenous, Chicago, The Gift, Mony Python, The Red Violin, LOTR, O Brother where art thou, anything by Kubrick, Peter Jackson, Roman Polanski, 28 Days/weeks later, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, anything with Bruce Cambell.

Television:

Survivor Man, Dirty Jobs, anything on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, Discovery Times, etc.!!

Books:

LOTR (old fan, not new fan, read them over twelve years ago). Any thing by Steinbeck, Jeff Noon (VURT, POLLEN), Heinlein, Things Fall Apart, Vonnegut, Voltaire, Shakespeare.

Heroes:

anyone who works hard and does what they want

My Blog

sold my soul

Ok, maybe it was just an odd day. Started off by painting a portion of a building downtown with my roommate at 7am. Not the usual Sunday morning Im accustomed to, but oh well. Before lunch I had manag...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:43:00 PST

One more summer almost over

Here we go again. One more summer almost over. Kinda nice. I just turned 33, but feeling younger than ever. Been spending more time on my bike, need to spend more time on the kayak. I have been workin...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST

been gone awhile

I have been gone a long while. I guess Im back now. This summer is strting off really crazy. Work is cracked out (many layoffs and demotions). My job is safe, but the others are getting thinned out re...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:02:00 PST

new semester

It's a new semester here at USM and it's hard already. Working more than ever and back in full time with my classes. I even got a new boss last week. I think now I have four of them. Hurray! Working o...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

25th hour

OK, so i procrastinate 25 hours into the stretch, about 18 of which have been programming and web design. Presentation in one hour. I am a glutton for punishment. I am my own worst enemy. I am my...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

oct 15

Slow day... No work to do today!! went to shooting range with friend Ben, then to dinner and drinks with other friend Cratin and his wife. Much Fun. Then home, massive headache. Rested for about 20...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST