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Marty

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About Me

I'm a laid-back, easy-going kinda guy. I like drinkin' beers and watchin' football. I like going out to eat and hanging out with friends. I also enjoy alone time to think, to read, and to compose. I say stupid things I don't mean to make people laugh (I really love to make people laugh). I enjoy listening to people, but I'm probably not as good at talking. Teaching is the joy of my life. It's my goal to figure people out, yet I often find myself wondering if others are doing the same to me. I'm a thoughtful person, but I mostly enjoy stupid conversations, punctuated occasionally by great ones. Friends and family (and those friends that have become family) are extremely important to me.

Oh, and I love all things German.

My Interests

Here's a list of things I like, in no particular order:

Friends,
Music,
Teaching,
Beer,
Videogames,
College Football,
FSU/TCU Sports,
German,
Food,
Working Out,
Buying Clothes,
Swimming,
Tennis,
Chatting,
Driving

I'd like to meet:

Everybody--I'm friendly, I swear. Hit me up! But please, before you invite me to be your friend, send me a message. Otherwise I'm just gonna have to assume you are a spammer looking to charge me $3.99 a minute for a webcam. :)

Music:

So much... any and all R&B, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Yolanda Adams, Christina Aguilera.. 311 too
"Classical": Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Ravel, Debussy, Copland, Stravinsky, Barber, Ligeti, Adams, Rorem, Reich, Torke...many more

Check out my music site

Movies:

Dumb & Dumber, T2, lots of German flicks (Das Experiment, Im Juli, Lola Rennt, Der Untergang), Memento, Spaceballs, Total Recall, Signs, Pirates of the Caribbean

Television:

Arrested Development!!, Scrubs, Reno 911, the Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, the Inferno on MTV, Showtime at the Apollo, the Parkers, the Surreal Life, and South Park

Books:

I love me some C.S. Lewis--Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain, A Grief Observed, The Four Loves, The Abolition of Man, The Great Divorce, the Space Trilogy

Heroes:

C.S. Lewis, Maurice Ravel

My Blog

Wow

It's been a long time since I've blogged.  Dang.Anyway, there have been a few things I've been meaning to blog about, but I think for now, in reaction to a number of recent events, ...
Posted by Marty on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:31:00 PST

interesting! or... not

Today is the one-year anniversary of me leaving Tallahassee.  So much has happened in my life since then, it's hard to believe it's only been a year.  Ithaca passed so quickly, and now I'm a...
Posted by Marty on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:29:00 PST

Pest Control

     So, it's been a while since I've written a blog.  And I was gonna write a blog about all that has happened to me in the past few weeks--closing on my house, loading up th...
Posted by Marty on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST

today's lesson learned

Rhetorical questions are a refuge for the weak-minded and insecure.  Don't you think?
Posted by Marty on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:18:00 PST

Two things

One: I dislike living under a microscope.Two: Painfully obvious is a very pregnant expression.  Painful.  Obvious.  Saturated with meaning.
Posted by Marty on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:05:00 PST

random

It's summer, and the slugs and bunnies are everywhere on Long Island.  Bunnies by day, slugs by night.Banks and mortgage brokers intentionally cloud their rates and fees to make them incomparable...
Posted by Marty on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:28:00 PST

home, sweet home, sweet ramblings

I am officially a home-owner (or will be in July)!  After a whirlwind five-day real estate tour of Fort Worth and some back-and-forth negotiations, I was able to land a great house to s...
Posted by Marty on Sun, 27 May 2007 10:17:00 PST

Why I love teaching, and my IC swan song

Simple: people.  I love people.  Even when they frustrate, irritate, annoy, bother, poke, prod, drag, twist, turn, confuse... no matter.  I love people.  I get energy from people.&...
Posted by Marty on Sun, 06 May 2007 07:40:00 PST

Some random thoughts...

Beautiful weather makes my soul smile.  Driving back from dropping off Beth at the airport, windows and sunroof down, I could not have been happier.  I love the sun.  Thank God for spri...
Posted by Marty on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:38:00 PST

VA Tech

     I'm not sure what I could possibly add to what has already been said regarding VA Tech.  Watching the story unfold this afternoon, I found myself deeply affecte...
Posted by Marty on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:14:00 PST