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jimmy

I am here for Friends

About Me

Work hard. Play hard. I'm a midwestern boy with midwestern values. My horizons are wide, but I like the challenge of transforming dreams into realities.

My Interests

altruism. travel. politics. culture, language. music. art. camping. hiking. road trips. writing. family. friends. reading. astrology. movies. sporting events (go cubs go!). theater. food. drink. hedonism.

I'd like to meet:

Everyone... in the words of Maugham, "I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent..."

Television:

the west wing. six feet under. the simpsons. family guy. the history channel. cnn. cspan. national geographic. the discovery channel.

Books:

what looks like crazy on an ordinary day. the audacity of hope. the chalice and the blade. last child in the woods. tuesdays with morrie. gone with the wind. the vampire chronicles. and anything by toni morrison, david sedaris, mitch albom, chaim potok.

Heroes:

family. friends. educators. and people who smile when they have the least reason to.

My Blog

I am I believe... and more.

Here is a compilation of some of my old chicken scratches. Many of you have read these before, but I've consolidated them to one "blog".  Please don't make fun of me too much.  En...
Posted by jimmy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:14:00 PST

Watch Out Washington DC... Here I come!

Human Rights Campaign - Washington D.C.2007 Diversity Intern - Jimmy Petersonwww.hrc.orgToday has been amazing! I accepted the position with the HRC, I was extended a research opportunity in my academ...
Posted by jimmy on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:07:00 PST

Immanence and Transcendence

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optic...
Posted by jimmy on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:05:00 PST

My First Ethnography... Mexico

I leave for Mexico this summer... June 5th I depart.  I am so excited.  However, it will be more work than play... Goals, Objectives, Brief Description of Methods Anthropology is the s...
Posted by jimmy on Sun, 07 May 2006 11:28:00 PST