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Marcus

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About Me

I spend most of my days fixing broken stuff, cars, computers, airplanes, you know, whatever people have a tendency to break. I spend most of my nights going to school so that someday I can go back to having fun at work. Work should be fun. Work used to be fun. A bunch of terrorists changed that, so its time to find something again. Until then I have to rely on my friends to be fun instead. :)

My Interests

It changes. I used to be a hardcore skydiver, but at around 550 jumps It got boring. I play video games, which works well with school since I'm working on a BS in Animation. Depending on what the current business does will decide on where I try to start my new career in a couple more years, and whether I will be running two jobs or just one. I played World of Warcraft for a couple of years and still keep my account active but I'm not able to play much right now. I also enjoy my Sunday nights out which usually end up at Burkharts watching the drag queens and hanging out with the aforementioned friends. :) Its also my only drinking night. Its very hard to over do it when they close just after midnight.

I'd like to meet:

I met him. :) You will find him under Sam. All mine. Woohoo!

Music:

Not into Rap, R&B (Sorry Roger :( )or Jazz, but almost anything else has things that I like, ok, well maybe not classic opera either, even though I do like musicals. Maybe If I could ever find the time to learn more languages I could enjoy stuff like that more, but I'm limited to english right now, even though I do have some german and spanish songs, but they have really good music, and they have english versions so I know what they are going on about. :P

Movies:

Mostly Sci Fi stuff. Matrix, Star Wars, Fifth Element, Galaxy Quest, but I got into Sin City the other night, and things like a Beautiful Mind and Big Fish were very interesting. Something to think about rather than just a sensory extravaganza. I also love gay movies with a happy ending. Since Hollywood movies have portrayed gays so very, very badly for so many decades it always good to see a happy ending. A british movie called "Like It Is" I would recommend.

Television:

Ok, I geek out in the category. Stargate (both flavors), Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, Teen Titans, Full Metal Alchemist, Gundam Seed. The only show that I LOVE that isn't Sci Fi right now is "Out Of Practice" with Henry Winkler. The Fonz is no more (thankfully) but the old doctor guy who took his place leaves me rolling on the floor.

Books:

Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton, Harry Potter, Myth Adventures by Robert Aspirin. Almost anything by Terry Pratchet. I love fantasy and Sci Fi and well as a little horror. I've read many of the Vampire Lestat books from the early days and I've managed to keep up with the enormous Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordon. I'm way behind on my reading though with school and other activities.

Heroes:

I grew up with classic Heroes. Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Spiderman, the Uncanny Xmen. People who help out no matter the cost and even leave themselves open to danger to keep other safe. They are what heroes are supposed to be. It may seem like silly comic books to most people. Most people have no idea what they are talking about.

My Blog

Just Keep Going

The good news is I've survived another term at school. Only 2 more to go, but they are going to be rough. Luckily there is 3 weeks off for Christmas in between them. Sam is recovering well from having...
Posted by Marcus on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:10:00 PST

School

What's amazing is how much fun school could be, if you could choose everything you took, but since the schools insist on making it necessary to take crap, people wind up hating it. I've managed to not...
Posted by Marcus on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:14:00 PST

Arrrgh

Events of the last week (in days, not on a calendar). Last day of the first term at Westwood, barely managed to get everything done. The next term starts today. Woohoo, a whole 4 days off. Tried to ge...
Posted by Marcus on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:04:00 PST

An update of sorts.

Well its been almost a year, I should put something else up here. I know, I can tell everyone how my "school break" went. I rescued 2 planes from Tennessee, installed a starter on the Explorer on a hi...
Posted by Marcus on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST

Weekends as a mood stabilizer

I have more hope this week than last week. I'm not sure why, maybe its because the term is coming to an end and I'm not only caught up, I'm ahead. The SAAB is still sitting without an engine, one of t...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:59:00 PST

Food, Life, whatever

Have you noticed how much of life is unsatisfying. I eat several apples in a row and I still feel hungry. I eat one pop tart and I'm good. wtf? Sometimes the rest of life is like that. You work and pu...
Posted by Marcus on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:44:00 PST

Postulations

I have found blogs to be fascinating. If you keep track of your friends you don't have to ask them how there week has been, what is going on in their lives, and sometimes you can surprise them by know...
Posted by Marcus on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST