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Brendan

Never forget that no one ever calls the ambulance because they did something right

About Me

I'm 20 years old, and I live in a small town in Massachusetts. I'm an on call firefighter EMT, and I work fulltime as an EMT for Patriot Ambulance in the City of Lawrence. I'm also starting per diem as a firefighter in the Town of Boxborough. I'm taking a semester off from college, much to the chagrin of family and friends. Contrary to popular belief, I am going back in the fall. Right now my life consists of work, hanging out with my friends, and having a good time doing it all.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Brendan Neal Hurley
Birthday: 8/12/86
Birthplace: Leominster Hospital
Current Location: Ayer, MA
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6'2
Right Handed or Left Handed: Righty
Your Heritage: Irish, and a bunch of other stuff. A europe mutt is a good description
The Shoes You Wore Today: duty boots
Your Weakness: being too nice
Your Fears: heights
Your Perfect Pizza: meat lovers
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Finish all my prerequisites for nursing
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol
Thoughts First Waking Up: morning already?
Your Best Physical Feature: my pillowiness
Your Bedtime: whenever i please
Your Most Missed Memory: Wanocksett Staff
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Burger King
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Is there that big a difference?
Chocolate or Vanilla: Either
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee
Do you Smoke: nope
Do you Swear: Fuckin right I do!
Do you Sing: Badly in the car
Do you Shower Daily: of course, who doesn't?
Have you Been in Love: YES!!!
Do you want to go to College: im in college at this very moment
Do you want to get Married: yes
Do you belive in yourself: usually
Do you get Motion Sickness: very rarely
Do you think you are Attractive: not particularly
Are you a Health Freak: hahaha, no
Do you get along with your Parents: yep
Do you like Thunderstorms: love em
Do you play an Instrument: not anymore
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: nope
In the past month have you Smoked: nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: only Rx ones
In the past month have you gone on a Date: yup!
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: oreos don't come in a box, and no, i haven't
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: nope
In the past month have you been on Stage: yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: nope
Ever been Drunk: never, and proud of it
Ever been called a Tease: i doubt it
Ever been Beaten up: have you seen how fuckin big i am?
Ever Shoplifted: nope
How do you want to Die: either peacefully in my sleep at an old age, or if I have to die young, in some glorious manner
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a firefighter and a nurse
What country would you most like to Visit: Ireland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: doesn't matter
Favourite Hair Color: brown
Short or Long Hair: either
Height: shorter than me
Weight: am i in a position to negotiate
Best Clothing Style: doesn't matter
Number of Drugs I have taken: none, since im sure that refers to the illegal variety of drugs
Number of CDs I own: not many
Number of Piercings: none
Number of Tattoos: none
Number of things in my Past I Regret: none
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Call me a whacker, call me what you will, but this poem is fucking awesome.
"Gone but Not Forgotten"
Brother, when you weep for me, remember that it was meant to be. Lay me down, and when you leave, remember that I'll be at your sleeve. In every dark and choking hall, I'll be there as you slowly crawl. On every roof in driving snow, I'll hold your coat, and you will know. In cellars hot with searing heat, at windows where a gate you meet. In closets where young children hide, you know I'll be there at your side. The house from which I now respond is overstaffed with heroes gone. Men who answered one last bell, did the job and did it well. As firemen we understand that death's a card dealt in our hand. A card we hope we never play, but one we hold there anyway. That card is something we ignore, as we crawl across a weakened floor. For we know that we're the only prayer for anyone who might be there. So remember as yo wipe your tears, the joy I knew throughout the years, as I did the job I loved to do. I pray that thought will see you through.

My Interests

Firefighting, Boy Scouts, Military history; especially Vietnam

I'd like to meet:

People who have similar interests to mine, who have some sort of morals and values.

Music:

Simon and Garfunkel, Sinatra, Elvis, The Who, The Beatles, The Stones, Neil Young, Thin Lizzy, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Lots of groups from the 50s, almost anything from the 60s, protest music, some things from the 70s, and even a few modern things.

Movies:

Ladder 49, Full Metal Jacket, Stalag 17, Backdraft, Platoon, The Dirty Dozen, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Maltese Falcon, A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, In The Heat of the Night, Stand By Me, Radio Flyer, Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Smokey and the Bandit, Tora Tora Tora, The Fighting Sullivans, Christmas Vacation, Scary Movie, American Pie, Cinderella Man, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Great Escape, Ghost Dog, Sunset Boulevard, and a bunch of others.

Television:

Not reality shows

Books:

The Hunt for Red October, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Without Remorse, The Sum of All Fears, Rainbow Six, Debt of Honor, Executive Orders, Red Rabbit, Teeth of the Tiger, Nimitz Class, Kilo Class, HMS Unseen, USS Seawolf, The Shark Mutiny, Ice Hunt, and dozens of others.

Heroes:

People in the military, and people who use common sense

My Blog

Fat Kids

I read a news article on Yahoo today about how Kellogg's will no longer use mainstream cartoon characters (like Shrek, or Mickey Mouse) to market their products, because "it targets children." Wow, f...
Posted by Brendan on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:25:00 PST

Fucking Celebrity Bullshit

Earlier this week, I was filled with joy when Paris Hilton, ignorant, rich, undeserving, bitch that she is, reported to prison for the most recent in a string of OUI charges. She was supposed to serve...
Posted by Brendan on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:08:00 PST

Fire Truck, in my yard, right now

So, after two years of talking about it, and one serious attempt to do it, myself and a few others have actually purchased a firetruck! The apparatus in question is Ayer's 1955 Maxim pumper. The tru...
Posted by Brendan on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:45:00 PST

Signal 5-5-5-5 for Patriot Ambulance

In the Fire Service, the signal 5-5-5-5 has come to represent the loss of a firefighter or an EMT in the line of duty. On 26th April, 2007, Emergency Medical Technician Micheal Latta was killed while...
Posted by Brendan on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

Ü0°......Kelvin

0°K. The temperature at which all life supposedly stops. Until recently, scientists had been unable to prove that this temperature was even attainable, even in the most ideal laboratory settings. L...
Posted by Brendan on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:29:00 PST

I bet less than 8 of my friends know what today is...

So, how many people, without reading ahead, know what holiday is today? Once I say it, everyone should know what I'm talking about. Today is December 7th. Pearl Harbor Day. Now, I realize that thi...
Posted by Brendan on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:54:00 PST

People take this stuff waaaay too seriously

Anyone who follows my blog probably remembers my rants from nearly a year ago regarding Myspace bulletins and how it bugs me when people beg for attention with them. Well, that, of course, hasn't cha...
Posted by Brendan on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:41:00 PST

5 Years

Just as everyone over the age of ten as of November 22nd, 1963 remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing when President Kennedy was assasinated, all of those members of my generation ...
Posted by Brendan on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:13:00 PST

"So, is this, like, an Italian Restaurant?"

Friday, 1 September, 2006. Myself and Tim proceeded into Boston for a historic day. We boarded a Red Line train at Alewife, bound for Braintree. At every stop, apparently the conductor assumed that...
Posted by Brendan on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 02:05:00 PST

"Life goes on, long after the thrills of summer have gone"

15 days left before school. Where has the summer gone? My summer break is 4 months long, fully one-third of a year, and it's gone in no time. As one of my co-workers said, "Next thing you know, we...
Posted by Brendan on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:39:00 PST