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Jimmy D

About Me

I'm a 24 year-old Houstonian, who recently moved back to my hometown after a 6 year hiatus. Born and raised in Spring, TX (northwest of Houston). I spent 5 years at the University of Colorado in Boulder getting my BS in Chemical Engineering. During college I move to Waikiki, Hawaii (Oahu) for a summer to experience the island life. After graduation I moved to Pacific Beach in San Diego for 7 months until I began my work as an engineer with Baker Hughes (Baker Petrolite) back in Houston in May 2005. I dork out by day and have fun by night. I love my job because it allows me to travel the world (South and North America, Europe, Middle East, and far East so far, and Africa, Australia, South Pacific, North Sea, Gulf of Mexico in the future). I also like to spend my free time traveling to various places too, both foreign and domestic. I love different cultures, cuisines, and languages. I'm currently practicing Spanish, French, Chinese-Mandarin and Korean and have dabbled in Arabic. In the future, I want to continue learning how to communicate in additional languages and hopefully begin my MBA program in the Fall of 2007. This layout is from WhateverLife.com; get yours today!

My Interests

Traveling (foreign, domestic, business, pleasure, whatever)...Sports (HOUSTON ASTROS, CU athletics, NCAA football, NCAA basketball, NFL, NBA, World Cup Soccer, MXC, NHL... in that order)...learning as many foreign languages as possible...cooking and eating long meals...working out and running...enjoying Houston weather in the winter...enjoying other places' weather the rest of the year...trying new things in life...

Music:

Everything under the sun...Check out my Ipod and see the most diverse collection of music ever.....1 are The Roots (the best live musical show you will ever, ever see). I also like The Killers, Kanye, Audioslave, the man Frank Sinatra, Sublime, Linkin Park, John Legend, Johnny Lang, The Used, Roger Creager, Robert Earl Keen, OutKast, N.E.R.D., Talib Kwali, the Doors, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mos Def, Paul Oakenfold, Jerry Jeff Walker, Passi, Rooney, Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter, La Quinta Estacion, O.A.R., Jay Z, Common, Pat Green, Toby Keith, Jack Ingram...I could go on and on

Movies:

I'm so easy to please with movies as far as just enjoying them goes. I rarely see a movie that I hate, but I also rarely see one that I fall in love with.

Television:

I don't watch much television outside of sports. But I love 24. The best show on TV right now. I also like The Sopranos, Entourage, da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Daily Show, Chapelle's Show (I miss it dearly), Sportscenter

Books:

anything by Dan Brown, Freakanomics, First In, the Kite Runner

Heroes:

Jack Bauer. Chuck Norris. Roger Clemens.