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About Me

I started out as a wimpy kid with an awful penchant for wearing flip-flops. Now I'm a geeky dude with bad fashion sense. My goals are to find that instruction manual to life that I forgot to read in the 7th grade, and to get a five star rating on Guitar Hero in expert mode. Any psychiatric help would be appreciated.

My Interests

Writing, Reading, Music, Musicals, Video Gaming, Board Gaming, Roman History, Medieval History, Chinese History, History in General, People Watching

I'd like to meet:

Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Ernest Hemmingway. Too bad they're all dead.Do I Creep You Out | Send To Friends | Flash Animations at JibJab

Music:

The Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Jim Croce, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Savage Garden (Ok! I admit it!), Jewel (Yes her too), Black Sabbath, Santana, Train, Jane's Addiction, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, The Temptations, George Benson, Fourplay, Miles Davis, Hiroshima, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington

Movies:

Star Wars, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Shakespeare in Love, Kill Bill, Le Pacte Des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf), The Thin Red Line, Castaway, Gladiator, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, Ice Age

Books:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill a Mocking Bird, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, Cathedral, A Gesture Life, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Of Mice and Men, The Highwayman, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass etc.), The Tortilla Curtain, Bastard Out Of Carolina

My Blog

A couple of poems for the hell of it.

Things that can be written during a children's literature class:Ode to ForkOh, multi-pronged utensil!How I loathe thee.For my need of you is greatAs is your control over me.Yet when I am faced with fo...
Posted by Jonar on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

Well, I feel like an idiot.

Last night I plugged my old laptop in and pushed the power button, out of morbid curiosity, and it worked.Normally I would be ecstatic to see my computer, which I thought broke last November, suddenly...
Posted by Jonar on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:14:00 PST

Late night photo update.

It seems that I like to mess around with pictures whenever I find myself up late. This time, I deleted a good amount of the older pictures from my profile. I figured it was time to pu...
Posted by Jonar on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:31:00 PST

A really long update

I can safely say that a year of busywork and schedule juggling is not just ending, it's ending in a big way. Naturally, people want to take care of their responsibilities before they go off on v...
Posted by Jonar on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:30:00 PST

Post Workshop Stress Disorder

I just got back from a night at my creative writing class. One of my stories was up for the workshop, a somewhat nerve-wracking activity. People in my class get to comme...
Posted by Jonar on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:55:00 PST

Library Musings

Here I am at the libary, doing what I shouldn't be doing. There are critiques of stories that are piled up next to my trusty laptop. I need to write them so I can help t...
Posted by Jonar on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:23:00 PST

Insomnia inspired activities

I can't sleep much tonight, so I decided to post some pictures up from Megan's beach party on the 11th and Ryan's backyard shindig the following day.Yes, these are way overdue, and I apologize. ...
Posted by Jonar on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:44:00 PST

Arrgh, I should post more.

I really should put in more blog entries. Much of the reason why I don't is because I lack the discipline to do it on a regular basis. I'm always looking for some kind of motiviation, but ...
Posted by Jonar on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:03:00 PST

Random Writing - 1

I don't write as often as I should. So I figured I'd try something different and write a story out of the blue. Basically, I start writing and stop when I don't feel like writing anymore.&...
Posted by Jonar on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:34:00 PST