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Nick

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About Me

I grew up in a small town in NH. I hated it there, and was generally picked on. It sucked. Things didn't get too much better in High School, but Choir did afford me a small chance to branch out and make some friends, a couple of whom I still keep in contact with. I really started developing as a Boy Scout camp counselor. I went to Gettysburg College, where I changed alot. I got into indie music, punk rock, democratic socialism, and generally a healthy disdain for Corporations and Conservatives and a good love of people who actually want to make the world better instead of improve their personal plot of land. I majored in Classical Studies, was involved in Choir and Frisbee (I actually did something athletic!) and went to England for a year. I got back, and finally ditched the assholes in the Frat Community and their incessant binge drinking, apathy, and culture of rape, branching out into fraternizing with the Townies, who I'd always been told were evil but who turned out to be damn awesome people. I had the most life-changing experience ever of working at Summerbridge Manchester, teaching 5th and 6th graders. I graduated and came back to NH to re-ground myself. I now attend UNH to become a Latin teacher, and am teaching Math as a long-term sub at my old high school. Weird. One of my latest interests is sexuality, and gender. Man, is gender a fucked-up system.

My Interests

Singing, Frisbee, Teaching, Video Games, Music... ummm... yeah.

I'd like to meet:

I don't feel I'm too judgemental, and I give just about everyone who approaches me a chance. I'd've cut myself off from some awesome people, and in the past, if I limited myself to one type of person. Just... care about something. Have some anima, some soul.

Music:

*cough - newly revised list* Afro-Celt Sound System, All, Anais Mitchell, Anti-Flag, Antje Duvekot, Aqua, The Arcade Fire, Atom & His Package, Bad Religion, Badly Drawn Boy, Barcelona, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Bell & Sebastian, Boris the Sprinkler, Cake, The Capricorns, Chisel, Common Rider, Crooked Still, Cursive, Dar Williams, The Dead Milkmen, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, The Descendents, Dispatch, The Dropkick Murphys, The Dwarves, Eddie From Ohio, The Epoxies, Erin McKeown, Final Fantasy, Five Iron Frenzy, Frou Frou, Fugazi, Garrison, The Gaze, The Get Up Kids, Girlyman, Go Sailor, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Goo Goo Dolls, Hot Hot Heat, Le Tigre, Less Than Jake, Live, Marine Research, Matt Pond PA, Mike Doughty, Millencolin, Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, Moxy Fruvous, MxPx, Nada Surf, The Nadas, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, NOFX, The Offspring, OK Go, Paul Simon, Piebald, The Pixies, The Pogues, Polaris, Portastatic, The Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Propagandhi, Rancid, Rasputina, Reggie & the Full Effect, Regina Spektor, Rent, The Rentals, The Reputation, Rilo Kiley, Sarge, Screeching Weasel, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, The Softies, Sonic Youth, The Soviettes, Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, They Might Be Giants, Tiger Trap, Tsunami Bomb, The Violent Femmes, The Weakerthans, Weezer,

Movies:

ClerksMallratsChasingAmyDogma, The Princess Bride, SLC Punk, Boondock Saints, High Fidelity, Clue, Rocky Horror Picture Show

Books:

The Farseer Saga, The Liveship Traders, The Tawny Man, The Satanic Verses, C.S. Lewis, Tolkein, Chomsky, Zinn, The People's History of America, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Salmon of Doubt, The Watchmen, Johnny: The Homicidal Maniac, Time's Arrow, Clockwork Orange, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Dispossessed...

My Blog

Holy crap... I'm using the MySpace journal?

Yeah, so I'm that bored right now that I'm doing two things: A) Reciting Family Guy complete dialogues to myself as I do my Summerbridge Application. B) Then putting on said episode (The Road ...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST