Jon

Jon "That Guy" Solomon

Who is that guy? ...Those shoes are mine, betch.

About Me

(Almost) Everything you need to know about me: I was once addicted to LiveJournal, but not so much anymore. I post on it occasionally, and if you want to check it out, go to: http://dasamurai.livejournal.com/
If it's really important to me, though, I tend to post my blogs from LiveJournal to both Myspace and Facebook (in the form of a note).
I once said that one of the only things that people needed to know about me was that I loved High School Musical. I do love High School Musical, and High School Musical 2 hit Disney Channel on August 17th, but I love other things, too, like life, friends, having fun, and making sure I'm being the best person I can be.
I find myself extremely fortunate and blessed to meet all of the wonderful people that I have over my 19 years of life. Who knew that a person could experience so much in (relatively) such a short time?
I currently attend the University of Washington. During my freshman year, I was a student senator (RHSA At-Large 3!) and a Student Senate Committee Chair (Publicity and Outreach). This year, I'm the Student Senate Membership Coordinator, which is the first time I've held a title that is longer than my full name. Interested in Student Senate, or want to know what we do? Drop me a message and I can help you out.
I also was part of UW Leaders, ASUW's leadership development program. There, I learned all about the different aspects of student leadership and, really, how to be a good person. This year, I'm a Mentor in the UW Leaders program, which is both an honor and incredibly awesome.
As of right now, I'm a Communication major with a focus in social interaction. I want to take that and go to grad school, where I will (hopefully / probably) study Student Affairs so that I can become a student adviser at either the high school or college level. Of course, this is all looking very, very far in the future, which is sort of a new thing for me.
There's this other little thing that I owe a lot of my life's successes to... and it's called Cispus. In some way, it changed my life way back in 2004, when I attended as a delegate, and again, in 2006, when I had the incredible opportunity to be one of the junior counselors. I wasn't a JC the summer of 2007, but I've since discovered that if I apply the principles that I was taught at Cispus three years ago to everything that I do, I really can't go wrong, and I have yet to be proven otherwise. Rest in peace, Merlin Epp.

My Interests

Dancing to "We're All In This Together" from High School Musical (check out the YouTube video up above in my websites), learning other such dance routines, meeting people and making friends, lending a helping hand to people, yelling out "ballin!", protecting Mahesh from getting roue'd, learning words like "recapitulate" and "arrhythmia" from Jason, Cispus, ASUW, and dancing like nobody's watching... even when people are watching.

I'd like to meet:

I've been told several times over the last few years that I remind people of other people that they know. I want to meet those people. Sometimes, I think I have, but I don't realize it until much later.

I also want to meet someone who writes longer e-mails than I do, more frequently than I do. But that will never happen.

Music:

Relient K, John Mayer, and Teddy Geiger are some of my favorites, but I'll give anything a shot.

Movies:

Transformers, 300, Dodgeball, High School Musical, Napoleon Dynamite, the Austin Powers trilogy... and many more.

Television:

Heroes, The Office, Friends, Project Runway, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Death Note, Naruto: Hurricane Chronicles (Shippuuden), and others...

Books:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, Harry Potter, The Prophet, and others...

Heroes:

Heroes is actually a pretty good TV show. I made fun of it at first, but it's actually pretty engaging.

...Oh, my heroes. Oh, those are people like my JC family, my G-Force family, my UW Leaders family, my biological family... other families...

My Blog

Recharge... and Go!

These past three weeks have certainly been interesting for me. A lot has happened, moods have changed... but luckily, things are finally looking up. This year is the first time that I've participated...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:32:00 PST

Don’t Stop Believin’

I tried to come up with a song that I could use to represent the fact that I'm returning from my trip and only now writing about it... some song about an adventure, but all I could think of was the ba...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:31:00 PST

The Return

February 1st has come and gone once again, and in its wake left me one year older. That's right, I'm now 20 years old, and I can safely say that so far, it hasn't felt any different. Of course, I've b...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:30:00 PST

Equilibrium

Never have I wanted to write so many blogs in such short succession. You know, that's kind of a funny thing to say. I used to write in my Livejournal almost every day without fail, and if I didn't pos...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:29:00 PST

Intrinsically Good People

I was on a retreat was this past weekend, and I am all of the following: exhausted, both mentally and physically, happy, excited for the new year, retrospective, and... hopeful, I guess. As most of y...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:40:00 PST

Rise From the Ashes

Never would forget those nights I'd wonder if it was a dream Remember how you made me crazy? Remember how I made you scream But I don't understand what happened to our love But baby, when I get you b...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:39:00 PST

Mission

Yesterday is not quite what it could have been As were most of all the days before But I swear today With every breath I'm breathing in I'll be trying to make it so much more Cause I seem to get so ...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:38:00 PST

"And eventually, you’ll finally get it right..."

This is the best thingThe best thing that could be happeningAnd I think you would agreeThe best thing is that it's happening to you and meRelient K - The Best ThingIt's certainly been awhile. Actually...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:36:00 PST

The End of an Era

How quickly September comes. It's already September 24th and I have no idea where summer went. I guess I didn't realize how little of a summer break I had until now. I always thought, "You know, I'm w...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:35:00 PST

Midsummer 2007: Thinking and Overthinking

Ridin' in the drop top with the top down so you're switchin' lanes, girlPull up to the red light, lookin' rightCome and let me get your name girlTell me where you're from, what you do, what you like, ...
Posted by Jon "That Guy" Solomon on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:44:00 PST