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Chad

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About Me

At the moment I work for an "organ procurement" organization and keep weird hours. My education/life was put on a ten year delay because I was lucky enough to inherit psoriatic arthritis and an HLA mutation (so far no cool powers..)and I've only been back in my field of work since 2006. Since I have friends scattered everywhere I use My Space to keep tabs on them and I like meeting people who have something in common with me. I got my EMT-B while I was in high school, went to a few tech schools (Sumter, Midlands, Florence/Darlington), took a few courses at USC, attended Mercer University, moved to Florence, SC, went to Francis Marion, (not necessarily in that order) and now I'm in West Columbia. If things work out I'd like to go back to school for my MD, but that remains to be seen. I tend to talk a lot..So I need to cut this short before I bore anyone, but if you really need to now about my childhood (which would make you kind of creepy I guess..) or something contact me. I also manage the computer center at my apartment complex two days a week in exchange for free rent so I have too much free time on my hands sometimes.

My Interests

Genetic engineering, medicine in general, terraforming, hiking, psoriatic arthritis,the entire horror genre, fishing, other people, poker, horror/sci-fi movies, food, cooking, gaming (RPG's and multiplayer .. mostly), behavior, where my other sock might be, and trying new or different stuff.

I'd like to meet:


You are Magneto Magneto 96% Apocalypse 90% Mr. Freeze 78% Dr. Doom 76% The Joker 74% Two-Face 74% Dark Phoenix 59% Lex Luthor 56% Green Goblin 50% Riddler 47% Juggernaut 46% Catwoman 42% Venom 41% Poison Ivy 41% Mystique 26% Kingpin 23% You fear the persecution of those that are different or underprivileged so much that you are willing to fight and hurt others for your cause.
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Movies:

Silence of the Lambs, Dracula, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, ET, The Thing, Halloween, Psycho, X-Men, X-2, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, The Princess Bride, Star Trek: First Contact, The Abyss, 2001: A Space Odyssey, REALLY OLD Godzilla movies, The African Queen, StarWars, The Empire Strikes Back, Four Rooms, Identity, Being There, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Dark City, GATTACA, Blade Runner, Highlander, Dr. Stranglove, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Haunting, Poltergeist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Reflecting Skin, Metropolis, The LotR trilogy, Finding Nemo, Grease, Schindler's List, Rear Window, The Muppet Movie, Muppet's Treasure Island, Fargo, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, An American Werewolf in London, Night of the Living Dead, Martin, Steel Magnolias, Charlotte's Web, Vacation, Caddyshack, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Top Secret, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

Television:

Masters of Horror, Heroes, Supernatural, Smallville, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Drawn Together, and Family Guy.
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Books:

Anything by Terry Pratchett, Warren Ellis, The Belgariad, The Mallorean, The Screwtape Letters, Homecoming (it's a short story so sue me), The Elric Saga, The Stand, It, Childhoods End, Cat's Cradle, Watership Down, The Shawshank Redemption, Carrie, Green Shadows, White Whale, Dracula, Some of Your Blood, American Gods, The Wasteland, most of Poppy Z. Brite's stuff, The Narnian Chronicles, The Hobbit (and the Rings Trilogy), The October Country (it has "The Homecoming" in it), Salem's Lot, Bunnicula, Don Quixote, The Princess Bride, The Scarlet Letter, The Lottery, The Picture of Dorian Grey, As I Lay Dying, Wise Blood, Most of Stephen King's work, The Haunting of Hill House, I Am Legend, Ghost Story, Swan Song, most of Lovecraft's stuff, Nightfall,The Nine Billion Names of God, The Damnation Game, Good Omens, Starfall, The Thief of Always, Weave World, In the Flesh, NightShift, Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, and The Mote in God's Eye.

My Blog

Announcing My Impending Senility

Given my virtual absence from My Space most of you have probably figured out it was a freakishly busy year for me. On top of everything else I think my brain's warranty finally expired in toto this we...
Posted by Chad on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:58:00 PST

Formerly E-Mail Now A Blog

I wasn't actually supposed to work at the hospital until tonight, but as usual I got asked to come in. Since that keeps me from having to go in after working at the computer center I was all for it. A...
Posted by Chad on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:16:00 PST

The Worlds's Against Me

OK, technically the world is against me losing weight. I've had a few days off from work and I've been reasonably good. Between normals bills, medical bills, and tuition you'd think I'd lose weight ju...
Posted by Chad on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:59:00 PST

Work Etc.

I have two jobs. The primary job is "pathologists assistant" and my second is managing the computer center where I live (free rent for working a few days a week, so I can't complain). Anyway, due to a...
Posted by Chad on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:01:00 PST

Diet

As many of you know I've been trying to get back to some semblance of the shape I was in before I got sick and spent around 10 years on steroids (OK, the Cheezits probably didn't help). To date I've l...
Posted by Chad on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:08:00 PST

Tag, You're It

Tag, you're it, get over it.   I've been tagged to name 10 weird random things or habits about myself.  After this I have to name 10 people to tag as well.      ..:...
Posted by Chad on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:52:00 PST

Sugar Hyped Ranting

My diet has been blown to hell. I've at least tried not to eat actual junk food, but tragedy struck in Bi-Lo today. I was innocently trying to get a spork at the Deli (I bought some chicken salad and ...
Posted by Chad on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:24:00 PST