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John

Dead air, um, dead air

About Me

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Name: John
Birthday: August 1977
Birthplace: Great Falls, MT
Current Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Eye Color: Blue-Green
Hair Color: What Hair?
Height: 6-3
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Irish/Italian/other stuff
The Shoes You Wore Today: Desert Combat Boots (I wear them every day)
Your Weakness: Self doubt
Your Fears: Disgruntaled Iraqis
Your Perfect Pizza: Pepperoni
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Change my life
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:
Thoughts First Waking Up: Don't move and the rat might not see me
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes (though I have been told I have nice hands)
Your Bedtime: 11 in the morning (I work nights)
Your Most Missed Memory: Freedom
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: MacDonalds
Single or Group Dates: What is this date you talk about
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I hate tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Caramel
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino
Do you Smoke: When I am on fire
Do you Swear: Yes
Do you Sing: When intoxicated
Do you Shower Daily: pretty much
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: yes
Do you want to get Married: no
Do you belive in yourself: no
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: sometimes
Are you a Health Freak: Ha!
Do you get along with your Parents: Sure
Do you like Thunderstorms: I love them!
Do you play an Instrument: does the triangle count?
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: God, I wish!
In the past month have you Smoked: I haven't been on fire, so no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: undercooked fish at chow hall (does that count?)
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Heck Yes
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: Not really
Ever Shoplifted: Yes
How do you want to Die: In outer space
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Happy
What country would you most like to Visit: Iraq (check)
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: green
Favourite Hair Color: brown
Short or Long Hair: long
Height: between 5'4" and 6'2"
Weight: Don't care
Best Clothing Style: Um, none
Number of Drugs I have taken: Don't Care
Number of DVDs I own: I have plenty of my own
Number of Piercings: the fewer the better
Number of Tattoos: see above
Number of things in my Past I Regret: lots, you learn from everything stupid you do
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My Interests

Music:

3 Doors Down, Seether, Cake, Duran Duran, Fuel, Nine Days, Hootie and the Blowfish, Linkin Park, Live, Matchbox Twenty, The Refreshments, Stir, Stabbing Westward, Splender, Train, Vertical Horizon, The Killers, Fallout Boy, Nickelback

Television:

I watch TV mostly on DVD, but here is what I watch Scrubs, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, 24, The Dead Zone, The 4400, Monk, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons. Here are the canceled shows that I love Friends, Firefly, Alias, Dharma & Greg,That 70's show.

Heroes:

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." Matt Groening said that, and I believe it. The Ice Weasels are out there children, beware!

My Blog

Sick

There are very few things in life worse then being sick in a strange place.  I, however, have found one.  I am sick in a strange country with no clean bathrooms.  To this point in my li...
Posted by John on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:25:00 PST

Finally!!!

Most of you don't really care about this, but I am excited so :P Blizzard just annonced it's next game http://www.starcraft2.com/
Posted by John on Sat, 19 May 2007 04:40:00 PST

Away

Hey all, I am going to be away from my internet connection for the next 2 or 3 weeks, so I won't be able to reply to any messages (not that I am all that great at replying anyway, but...).  For t...
Posted by John on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:05:00 PST

Dental Hyjinx

This all started with an odd pain in my ear.  So, I wake up the other morning and discover that what I had thought for several days to be an ear ache was in fact a tooth ache.  Those of you ...
Posted by John on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:48:00 PST

Elbonia Found

Well folks, after a full day of rain yesterday, Iraq has gone from dusty to all out muddy.  In the spirit of the holiday season, we decided to try and have a mud ball fight.  Sadly it did no...
Posted by John on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:01:00 PST

The world is very small

While working yesterday I realized how terribly small the world really is.  I met an Airman that is new to Iraq, and I will be working with from time to time.  One of my first questions to h...
Posted by John on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:07:00 PST

The value of life

We had to sit through a plethera of briefings today, most of which were repetative to the point of nausea.  During one of them, our chaplain was talking about suicide prevention; and remarked tha...
Posted by John on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:29:00 PST

Time is ticking

It is funny, the things we become attached to.  I am sitting here in my almost empty apartment, about to leave it for good.  I am saddened by that for some odd reason.  I haven't partic...
Posted by John on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:42:00 PST

Odd

I have wierd feeling of dread tonight, and I am not sure what is causing it.  I feel like something has gone horribly wrong, or is about to.  The problem is that I cannot think of anything t...
Posted by John on Mon, 29 May 2006 09:45:00 PST

Dreams

I just finished watching Art School Confidential.  A good movie, though a little strange.  The main thought I had when I left the movie was that it must be nice to have dreams.  Knowing...
Posted by John on Sun, 21 May 2006 07:11:00 PST