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About Me

Let's see, I'm 22 and I currently attend George Mason University, studying Economics. I work for Costco in the buying office, basically coordinating purchases for all of the northeast clubs. It's a pretty cool job--you get good experience and get to see first hand how such a high dollar establishment operates so smoothly. I've been working there since I was 16. It's been up and down, but mainly a very symbiotic relationship--I've been good to them and they have been good to me. Mason is OK, but I'll be happy to be out in about a year or so. To be fair, I've had a handful of teachers who have really gotten through to me, but for the most part, Mason is a pretty depressing school. Everyone mopes around as if they'd rather be somewhere else; as if this was a school they attend because their alternatives ran dry. It's a good school though, and when all is said and done, I don't think I'll regret going there. All the other things are pretty solid--Ramsey and I are good, the family is good, the house is good. I don't see my friends as much as I'd like, but that's no ones fault but my own. But, all things considered, everything is going pretty damn well (knock on wood).

My Interests

Guitar (classical nylon, electric, flamenco, and steel), Piano, recording/sound engineering, composing, basketball, racketball, biking, boating, skydiving (47 jumps baby), writing, creating/designing/prototyping/searching on potential patents, wizards, redskins, and building outlandish projects at Dad's house

I'd like to meet:

I hate to go the sports roughte, but I know I'd definetly like to meet Gilbert Arenas. He seems to be a rare breed of sincere professional athletes who care about the game more than anything else. I'd also like to meet Conan O'Brian. In my opinion, he is hands down the funniest man on television, and wrote some of the best Simpson's episodes that have ever aired.

Music:

I'm getting older--everything that I like seems to be at least 8 years old or so (with an occasional exception here and there). Rage Against the Machine, Incubis (Science was awesome), older DMB, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Days of the New, the Urge, Rusted Root, Bush (older), Our Lady Peace (older), etc. and a whole bunch of classical stuff (including Friday Night in San Fransisco--the album itself isn't all that musical, but the guitarists are phenominal). One thing that I can't stand in music is when you hear some whiney brat complaining about his girlfriend to the same four Blink 182esque power chords over and over again. Blink 182 was a pretty cool band, but they proliferated a genre of whiney, emotional punk that drives me nuts. But, to each his own.

Movies:

LA Confidential, Apollo 13, The Usual Suspects, V for Vendetta, Back to the Future, and some others that I'm sure I'm forgetting

Television:

Thanks to Tivo, I never miss a Simpsons. The newer episodes leave something to be desired, but the older ones are utterly hilarious. I'm also into Mythbusters now (I want their job so bad). Other than that, I mainly catch CSI when I can and Seinfeld here and there.

Books:

I don't really enjoy reading, so my books of interest are pretty unoriginal. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher and the Rye, Jurassic Park, etc.