Getting to Know You - Micros Edition
 

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Where you want to be in 5 years:
Myers-Briggs Personality:

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Forum Name: Paxosmotic
Real Name: Rick
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Job: Network engineer, I make computers talk
Education level: Bachelor's degree in Psychology
Living arrangement: I live alone in a 2 bedroom apartment. Nicest feature is the cathedral ceiling. I hate feeling cramped by a room that's only 10 feet tall. This way if I want to install a basketball court, I've got plenty of room for the arch of the ball.
Other hobbies: I follow pro and (especially) college football like my life depends on it. Every day I log on to Wikipedia and read the current events and featured articles. If time allows (> 15 minutes), I read the articles those articles link to. I maintain my own college football rankings which are much more accurate than the AP poll. I drive a Mitsubishi Eclipse. I play ice hockey every week unless time is absolutely of the essence.
A little about your signifigant other: Haley is a 22 year old landscape architecture grad student in Southern California.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I started at tailback all 4 years in high school. I guess I just don't come across as a football player since I tend to be an introvert and football players are supposed to yell everything they say or something, but every time it comes up, the other people in the conversation seem to think I need to convince them.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Making a living almost entirely through poker, only keeping a job in information technology to keep myself from getting completely lazy.
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTP.

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Forum Name : Lautzutao
Real Name : Fred
Sex : Not very often
Age : 26
Education : High School
LivingArrangement: Wherever
Other Hobbies : Reading mostly

No significant other
The thing that usually surprises people when I tell them is that I left my job to wander the country with a huge wad of cash I saved up while working at my previous employer. Have been living off it a couple years now.

In 5 years I want to be as happy with life as I am now.

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The thing that usually surprises people when I tell them is that I left my job to wander the country with a huge wad of cash I saved up while working at my previous employer. Have been living off it a couple years now.

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If I ever learn how to save money (so very, very bad with money), this is very appealing to me. Every few months I like to pretend I'm going to get enough money together to take like a 4 month vacation and just move somewhere like Greece. It never happens, but it's always a nice thought.

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Well, you should do it with your poker money. Or start opening up CD's and Mutual Funds through the place you work. You'd be amazed at how much money you can save in a 5 year span if you really work at it.

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Well, you should do it with your poker money.

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lol, I think someone vastly overestimates how profitable $2/$4 is. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

My net income through poker over the last 6 months : $0.

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Forum Name: 2+2 wannabe
Real Name: Chris
Sex: M
Age: 24
Job: Poker
Education level: Bachelor's (Honours) in Business Economics
Living arrangement: 2 BR apartment with roommate in Halifax
Other hobbies: Any sports, drinking and playing MVP baseball for xbox
A little about your signifigant other: She's hot, very intense, and stubborn as hell
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I'm actually related to the rest of my family
Where you want to be in 5 years: Travelling and hopefully still playing this fun-filled game for profit
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Myers-Briggs Type: INTJ

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Forum Name: Obliky
Real Name: Steve
Sex: M
Age: 24
Job: Err..not much work, lots of poker
Education level: Bsc Computer Science, Msc Artifical Intelligence
Living arrangement: With my parents...cool huh?
Other hobbies: I play table tennis in my local league, squash for fun, running to keep me resonably fit. I also play a stupid amount of computer games.
A little about your signifigant other: Gail is 27 and works as a Java Programmer
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: i guess it would be that i went to vegas for a month (i live in the UK) to play poker...it was fun [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
Where you want to be in 5 years: $100/$200!

Also, ive been reading the psycology forum recently and did this personality test..it would be interesting to see what type everyone is. Anyway ill start off:

Myers-Briggs Type: INTJ

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Myers-Briggs Type: INTJ

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Greatest idea ever. The time where I can edit the first post has lapsed but I'll ask wookie to add this category to it. I absolutely love the Myers-Briggs.

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Forum Name: loyalguard
Real Name: Peter
Sex: M
Age: 33
Job: Law Enforcement
Education level: BA - International Affairs
Living arrangement: Single Family House w/ wife and two kids.
Other hobbies: Ancient Roman History, Hockey, Rugby
A little about your signifigant other: She's my best friend, a great mother to my kids, and drives me [censored] crazy! She only condones my poker playing because her cousing won $43K in tourneys last year!
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I've been to 52 different countries.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Five years closer to retirement.

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Myers-Briggs Type: INTJ

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Greatest idea ever. The time where I can edit the first post has lapsed but I'll ask wookie to add this category to it. I absolutely love the Myers-Briggs.

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I thought you might like it, having a psycology Bsc and all [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Fill out the following survey, and we'll all be better off for knowing each other.

Forum Name: KingOtter
Real Name: Art
Sex: M
Age: 38
Job: Customer Support for Network devices
Education level: BS in Computer Engineering
Living arrangement: Wife, 3 kids, nephew, house
Other hobbies: EQ2, homebrewing
A little about your signifigant other: industrious
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: deaf in one ear, poker playing
Where you want to be in 5 years: Same place, just richer
Myers-Briggs type: ENFP

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Forum Name: Milagro
Real Name: Ray
Sex: Male
Age: 48
Job: What's that??
Education level: M.S. in Physics but never really used [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] (I suppose this would suprise people, as well, if it ever came up but it doesn't).
Living arrangement: Hotels mostly. Homes on Lake Geneva near Lausanne, Switzerland and on a citrus grove in Mesa, Arizona.
Other hobbies: Filling up the homes I'm never at with vintage guitars and basses, learning languages and cultures, watching baseball on mlb.tv, going to baseball games when I am in the States, jamming and recording with my 17 year old son.
A little about your signifigant other: Married for almost 28 years to my college sweetheart.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I have been married to the same woman for over 27 years.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Off the road.

I'll bite,
Myers-Briggs Type: ENFP

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Forum Name: djames
Real Name: Damon
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Job: Actuary, FCAS
Education level: MS in Math (Combinatorics)
Living arrangement: Married w/ a 2 week old boy [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Other hobbies: Guitar, Golf, Football (Gators & Dolphins)
A little about your signifigant other: She's the love of my life (and a retired physical therapist)
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I'm a poker junky (I'm surrounded by conservative introverts averse to risk).
Where you want to be in 5 years: Stinkin' rich (through hard work, poker or not) living fully with all of my free time.

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Forum Name: Numeri
Real Name: Dan
Sex: M
Age: 30
Job: community college Math/Stats Instructor
Education level: Masters+
Living arrangement: married (as of May, 2005)
Other hobbies: acoustic guitar, basketball
A little about your signifigant other: She's a speach and language therapist with little guys. I still feel lucky to have found her. Cheesy, I know - but true.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: Hmmm... so many choices. I like being a round character - there's always something new to learn about me.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Happily married with a house and maybe a little one or two running around. No more.

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Education level: MS in Math (Combinatorics)

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That's so sweet. I love combinatorics. I only had a couple classes, but I thought they were really fun. I emphasized in Statistics, but I enjoyed more of the theoretical abstract subjects more. (algebra, group theory, number theory, etc.)

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Forum Name: Reqtech
Real Name: Derek
Sex: M
Age: 28
Job: IT Director
Education level: BS Math
Living arrangement: House with wife and pup
Other hobbies: Table tennis, basketball, going to Hokie football games (season tix)
A little about your signifigant other: English teacher, hot babe [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I'm married and that I've actually made some money playing poker online.
Where you want to be in 5 years: retired and living in a cabin in the woods [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Forum Name: Koss
Real Name: Mike
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Job: Sound Quality Test Engineer
Education level: BS Electrical Engineering
Living arrangement: With mom!
Other hobbies: Watching sports, videogames, drinking.
A little about your signifigant other: She's beautiful and I'm gonna marry her someday!
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: Sorry, but no suprises here.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Married with a big house and making a nice second income from poker.

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Education level: MS in Math (Combinatorics)

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That's so sweet. I love combinatorics. I only had a couple classes, but I thought they were really fun. I emphasized in Statistics, but I enjoyed more of the theoretical abstract subjects more. (algebra, group theory, number theory, etc.)

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I found it to be very cool (for a math track, that is). Studied it for 3+ years before stopping the PhD track in lieu of a job that pays bills.

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Education level: MS in Math (Combinatorics)

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That's so sweet. I love combinatorics. I only had a couple classes, but I thought they were really fun. I emphasized in Statistics, but I enjoyed more of the theoretical abstract subjects more. (algebra, group theory, number theory, etc.)

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Yeah, being a math major was fun and was great in making you learn how to think. Otherwise, I'm not able to really use anything that I actually learned [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Forum Name: Car Ramrod

Real Name: Dathan

Sex: Male

Age: 26

Job: Computer Programmer

Education level: BS in Communications

Living arrangement: in a condo w/ my girl

Other hobbies: guitar, movies, camping, traveling

A little about your signifigant other: she's great, hell I live with her, she better be great.

Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: that my name is Dathan, not Nathan.

Where you want to be in 5 years: traveling the world, working as little as possible. Playing poker or writing and getting published.

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Forum Name: ChuckyB
Real Name: Derek
Sex: All dude
Age: 31
Job: TV Sports Anchor
Education level: 4 overly long years of University (me no graduate)
Living arrangement: Almost 3 years with girlfriend in small house
Other hobbies: Sports, Financial Planning
A little about your signifigant other: She is hilarious
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I once fell down the stairs of Copps Colesium in Hamilton, Ontario while working for the Toronto Raptors. The local TV station caught it on tape and playing it to death.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Anchoring a national sports show

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Forum Name: adsman
Real Name: adam
Sex: M
Age: 34
Job: Rafting guide, english teacher, translator, musician.
Education level: Bachlor of music, jazz guitar.
Living arrangement: A cool pad in the Italian Alps.
Other hobbies: Snowboarding, kayaking, reading, writing, model trains, rock climbing, rugby union.
A little about your signifigant other: She's a sculptor, works with marble, big muscles and she's hot.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I got involved in an African war.
Where you want to be in 5 years: I'm happy where I am.

Personailty thingy; INFJ

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Forum Name: Nilbud
Real Name: Doug
Sex: Male
Age: 31
Job: Network Engineer for a large online retailer
Education level: Went to college for a couple of years
Living arrangement: Living with my wife and son in house that's much too small. If you think property prices are high in California, you should try Dublin.
Other hobbies: Photography, reading, singing in a choir
A little about your signifigant other: She works in commercial lending in a large Irish bank. She's pretty supportive of my poker playing, mostly because I keep telling her she'll be able to buy stuff for the house with the money I win. I wonder how long she'll keep buying that one!
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I met my wife online in 1995 and moved from Kansas to Ireland in 1998 to be with her.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Doing something I enjoy

Misc stuff I haven't been posting much lately (not that I was ever a prolific poster). My wife and I just had a son four weeks ago. It's amazing how little time you have for things like poker and posting/reading 2+2 with a baby in the house! I've moved to 1/2 6-max recently and I'm barely keeping my head above water, but it sure is fun!

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Hey Doug, congradulations on the new arrival.

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Forum Name: RatFink
Real Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 40
Job: Software
Other hobbies: Uh, erm, uh.. Look a bird.
A little about your signifigant other: There is no other that could ever be more significant. Have 3 great kids.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: Nothing, I don't talk much.
Where you want to be in 5 years: I'd like to be able to travel more with my wife.
Myers-Briggs Personality: INTP.

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Forum Name:Redd
Real Name:Ryan
Sex:Please!
Age:23
Job:Electronics Engineer
Education level:BSC Electrical Engineering
Living arrangement:Trying to afford a loft. Stupid microlimits!
Other hobbies:Guitar, travel, restoring classic cars (sort of a father-son business)
A little about your signifigant other:Dating for almost 3 years now [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img], she works doc. mgmt in a competing engineering firm [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it:Through my car restoration hobby, I've accrued many cars: right now a newer jeep and z28, a <12-second stringray vette, and a 65 mustang. Actually had twin stringrays for a while in the same body style and paint color. Finding garage/storage space is a constant problem.
Where you want to be in 5 years:Traveling more and working less.

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Hey Doug, congradulations on the new arrival.

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Cheers! He's a handful and his sleep patterns aren't particularly beneficial to my poker game, but I wouldn't trade him for 10BB/100 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Forum Name: NateDog
Real Name: Nate (duh)
Sex: Male
Age: 31
Job: Asset Manager
Education level: B.A. Communications
Living arrangement: 3+2.5 Condo with my fiance and 2 dogs. Yes I am proud of the condo, as I live in southern California.
Other hobbies: I have been doing brazilian jiu-jitsu for almost 4 years
A little about your signifigant other: Far more stubborn than I am, and the most loving person I have ever met.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: My dad is Japanese. He married my mom when I was just a little pup, and adopted the kids.
Where you want to be in 5 years: Happily married

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Forum Name: ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S
Real Name: Damien
Sex: M
Age: 21 (i am the kid it would appear so far)
Job: Student
Education level: Currently Bachelors Marketing Major
Living arrangement: Solo
Other hobbies: Clubbing, raving, dancing in general. Other gambling.
A little about your signifigant other: Well my thumb has a bit of a cramp today actually....
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: poker actually is the first thing that comes to mind, yeah i cant think of much. not that there isnt a bunch of stuff that could surprise people, i just wouldnt tell people =/ .
oh i just realised, yeah online people are often surprised that i am an aussie, does that count?
Where you want to be in 5 years: dead or in jail. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
Myers-Briggs Personality: ENFP?? i never did this before so could be wrong

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Yeah well, we can't all be seppo's I guess, right Dam-O? Good on ya mate.

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Forum Name: Rev. Good Will

Real Name: Matt

Sex: M

Age: 19

Job: Poor ass college student (technically I work for my school's admissions department, giving out tours of the school and stuffing envelops for the mailing lists, but that stuff is all on a "when they need me" basis)

Education level: working on my BS in Math

Living arrangement: apartment at the dorms with 2 of my other Fraternity brothers + 1 non fraternity brother

Other hobbies: While school is going on, I've gotton pretty good at not shooting myself in the face, which can be harder than you think. Other that that, I'm a "B" movie freak, and I play the bass guitar, and am trying to get a ska band together with my friends around school

A little about your signifigant other: N/A

Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I'm actually an ordained minister.

Where you want to be in 5 years: Finishing up my masters in financial engineering, math, statsics, biostatistics, or whatever MS I decide on when the time comes.

Myers-Briggs Personality: INTJ

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Forum Name: benkath1
Real Name: Ben
Sex: M
Age: 33
Job: UPS Driver
Education level: 2 wasted years of college.
Living arrangement: I live with my wife of 11 years and our awesome 9 year old daughter.
Other hobbies: Golf, fantasy football, PS2 mostly adventure games but Tiger Woods is a must every year, reading
A little about your signifigant other: My wife is awesome, stay at home mom, works/volunteers at school, loves to scrapbook and play volleyball.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: That I actually win money at online poker. That I'm a UPS Driver. (don't know why that's so shocking [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img])
Where you want to be in 5 years: Happily married. If I were more confidant in the future of online poker, I'd like to be playing full time, but I think that's unlikely.
Personality thingy: INTJ

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congrats to all the newly weds and new parents!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I guess we ain't as young as the other forums say.

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Forum Name: shadow29 (soon to be raillery)
Real Name: John
Sex: M
Age: 18 (19 soon)
Job: ...
Education level: Currently a first year student (no "freshmen" here) at Davidson College.
Living arrangement: I live in a dorm with a roommate.
Other hobbies: Golf, drinking, girls, writing, backpacking, politics.
A little about your signifigant other: I can't remember her name in the morning.
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it:

Probably something about somewhere I've been. I have backpacked and camped in Ely, MN (on the border of MN and Canada) over MLK, Jr. Weekend. It got to be -40 F during the night. We slept in ice shelters. That's just one of many stories. Oh, I have been involved in two politics campaigns thus far, including a US Senator race, where I took an active role in compiling donor records to submit to the Feds (exciting!). I also got a line into the stump speech. I rock.

Where you want to be in 5 years: In grad school (Princeton), getting my MPA so that I can work in politics full time. Poker will pay for grad school. Poker will also pay for a car and a large deposit on a townhome wherever I end up working. I [censored] rock.

Myers-Briggs Personality: INTP.

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Yeah well, we can't all be seppo's I guess, right Dam-O? Good on ya mate.

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Add me to the aussie list. Do ya reckon any seppo's here know what seppo means?

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Yeah well, we can't all be seppo's I guess, right Dam-O? Good on ya mate.

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Add me to the aussie list. Do ya reckon any seppo's here know what seppo means?

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Nah, but some pikers might. BTW, I am a seppo, but spent 3 months on the Goldie while my dad built a boat. Meat pies, I miss the meat pies, and the good aussie beer. 'Gimme a tinne o piss'!

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Yeah well, we can't all be seppo's I guess, right Dam-O? Good on ya mate.

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Add me to the aussie list. Do ya reckon any seppo's here know what seppo means?

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Nah, but some pikers might. BTW, I am a seppo, but spent 3 months on the Goldie while my dad built a boat. Meat pies, I miss the meat pies, and the good aussie beer. 'Gimme a tinne o piss'!

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Japanese dad building a boat in aussie with a seppo son. It's a strange world. Steak and mushie pie for me.

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Nah, but some pikers might. BTW, I am a seppo, but spent 3 months on the Goldie while my dad built a boat. Meat pies, I miss the meat pies, and the good aussie beer. 'Gimme a tinne o piss'!

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Japanese dad building a boat in aussie with a seppo son.

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Steak and mushie pie for me.

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Maybe if you decided to talk in bloody english things wouldn't be so strange! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Forum Name: Vote4Pedro? Are we allowed to change?
Real Name: Kurt
Sex: M
Age: 22
Job: NEVER
Education level: 4-5 Quarters left @ UCD
Living arrangement: Lovely, new apartment(w/ 2 other guys)...next to the in-n-out burger on Radford
Other hobbies: NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball, Fantasy Football(We're 8-0 baby), Boozing, Fratting out, Beer Pong, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mac N Cheese(Shells>Noodles)
A little about your signifigant other: "She only smokes when she drinks..."
Something about you that continually surprises people when they hear it: I put my pants on one leg at a time...
Where you want to be in 5 years: Hopefully still in school, working on something new
Myers-Briggs Personality: WTF