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I'm a vegan(for over 7 years) track and field athlete(was) and a potter but not just any potter...a VEGAN POTTER. I used to be 320lbs and I could bench press 370lbs, full squat 600lbs, clean 310lbs and leg press 1200lbs for three reps...all as a vegan...far cry from the frail man I'm working on creating. Instead of Track I now ride my bike 300-400+ miles per week in order to not be so fat(well I guess I'm not really fat anymore...I'm just trying to lose muscle). I've spent the last 4 years of my life making pottery, and will spend the next 60 years of my life making pottery, I also work in small scale metals(jewelry mostly). Before now I volunteered at the ASPCA in Philly for a year and a half, where I was also a mentor for a brief time at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf(which was right near LaSalle Univ. where I attended school for biology for 3 semesters)...too bad I've not had the chance to keep up my sign language though. I have organized two circus protests(each week long ordeals) for PETA in Baltimore. I have spoken about vegan nutrition at small environmental conferences, and I continue to give nutrition info to anyone who asks(talk is cheap). And in the future I plan on opening my own ceramics studio in the summers for a small vegan art camp for kids, where they could learn more about their own veganism, tend to the rescues, make pottery of course and learn how to cook(all you vegans out there keep me in mind for when you have kids). I would also like to run a greyhound sanctuary(maybe a tortoise santuary too if I can manage it all) where they can do whatever they want and eat lots of good homemade vegan dogfood. At the moment I'm living with my parents to save money(to support my cycling) and focus on my cycling career...hopefully I'll be riding for a pro team by 2010 or I'll be a sponsored time trialist. I'm also getting back in the studio and I'm looking forward to enter the world of being a professional artist and not just a student(well a good artist is always a student but you know what I mean).