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About Me

If I stop moving, I'll probably die. Life is GOOD!

I'm a main company performer at ComedySportz, an awesome all-ages improvisational comedy show in Downtown San Jose (one of among 20 other cities across the United States). Come check out a show!

I do some of the on-field hosting for our San Jose Giants minor league games (I'm the one with the microphone, dancing around with 20 kids at a time and getting a wicked tan.)

I go to school full-time at San Jose State University, finishing up my Public Relations Degree.

I work at Gordon Biersch in Downtown San Jose as a bartender/server.

I love it all. If it could be summer year 'round, I'd love it even more. I'm surrounded by people that make the quality of life quite good, and it helps that the food doesn't suck.

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My Interests

improv, writing, driving, scrabble, running, photography, organizing things, naps, dressing up, dressing down, psuedo-dates and movement set to music.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants to play.And John Mayer.

Music:

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John Mayer, John Mayer Trio, Norah Jones, The Wreckers,Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Sam Cooke,Michelle Branch, Sinatra,The Hatch, Michael Buble, Dean Martin, Rascal Flatts,Marc Broussard, Thu Tran, Rilo Kiley, Beck, Chantel Kreviazuk, Cake, Louis Armstrong, Jazz Unlimited, all Big Band & Swing music, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Four Seasons, Feist, various soundtracks,Doo Wop and Mo-Town, The Beatles,Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliot, Pink, Natasha Beddingfield, that one song by Keith Urban about the cat and his sweater. Cello music. I like it all.

Movies:

Garden State. Jerry Maguire. RENT. Almost Famous. Chicago. Love Actually. Dream for An Insomniac. Just Looking. Dirty Dancing. Big. Love Me If You Dare. Sound of Music.Music From Another Room. You've Got Mail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Meet me in St. Louis. Singing in the Rain. Prime.Bend it like Beckham. Slackers. School of Rock. My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Television:

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip...R.I.P

Books:

short-story recounts of life, David Sedaris, random improv books, and anything else people throw at me.

Heroes:

Bonnie Hunt, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Laura Paull. Simone De Beauvoir.

My Blog

I am proud to be me: installment 1

At the San Jose Giants Municipal stadium, on the third base line, there's the V.I.P box. It's basically an open area that people (usually an adult celebrating a birthday) will book. The idea is that ...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:29:00 PST

Assessment.

So...first things first: upon finding out that one of the high schoolers we coach in ComedySportz is, in fact, British...(not "just pretentious"), our very own Jordan Rosa (a fellow cast member and c...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:25:00 PST

Let the countdown begin.

So it's about 10:48 p.m. last monday night, and everything hit me all at once and made perfect sense. I'm moving to Chicago. (*after graduation, so this time next year.) I've loosely tossed the name o...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:03:00 PST

A Toast. (mmm...toast)

A purple bruise on the inside of my knee that is the size of a silver dollar, an entire glass of beer poured down the front of me, and my precarious leg shaving-balancing act in the shower ...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:03:00 PST

1st of many!! Woo hoo!!

This past year in 2007, my birthday resolution was to run a marathon, "sometime before I'm 30." Yes, I realize it's a goal that spans over the next five years, but I have officially made myself aware...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:47:00 PST

Want.

From time to time, I wake up and know exactly what I want.Toast. A Red Bull. A drive. Santa Cruz. 40 minutes on the stair climber. Hot Cheetoh's. A hug.And then there are times when I wake up, and som...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:21:00 PST

cough

Have you ever worked out so hard that afterward, you have trouble breathing and you start coughing? ...I didn't think it was feasible either, which is why after 2 1/2 days of hoping that I'm just...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:35:00 PST

culprit.

I stepped up closer to the man I know well as he evaluated my choices. It had taken me just a few moments to make those choices, and I did them with recklessness...that, I'll admit. There ARE som...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:11:00 PST

What I know.

Oh, you crazy New Years Eve.What a night, eh? You sure taught me a lesson. Here is what I know: * Sometimes, no matter how pretty your dress is, crying while in it is inevitable. * Champagne tastes be...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:27:00 PST

Scrappy

Haven't I done this before?I could've sworn that we've been here before, Bottle of Wine. Wasn't it just last year that I blinked and suddenly was home from my parents house, back safe at home in San J...
Posted by Courtney Pong on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:43:00 PST