For Starters

Greetings fellow students reading this not so much by choice as by assignment.  I will do my best not to make this to painful and perhaps even to venture in to the realm of being interesting.  How to post a biography while remaining anonymous..?  I suppose it would be best to just describe who I am, rather than run through a collection of dates, locations, and specifics.  I have never lived outside of California, although I have lived in both Southern and Northern California and have spent a fair amount of time in the Bay Area.  When I graduated high school I was not a very big fan of school in general.  I graduated with a high GPA and high test scores, it wasn't that school was too difficult for me.  Perhaps it is more accurate to say that achieving good grades wasn't difficult, but having the discipline to force myself to do the things that I did not want to do (e.g. homework, studying) was incredibly difficult.  I attended one semester of community college and received very poor marks.

I decided at that point that it would be best for me to join the work force.  If I was going to be doing things that sucked, at the least I should be getting paid for it.  I now have a job that I really enjoy, although to say that I love it or that it is fulfilling would be stretching the truth a bit.  I decided to go back to school to at the very least acquire an Associates degree.  So far I am happy with that decision, although I am not at all happy with a return to the days of sacrificing my free time to do homework.

Throughout my life I have always been comfortable speaking in public and being the center of attention.  In elementary school I regularly performed in talent shows, usually singing.  In high school I took a drama class and acted in a few of the schools plays, even once getting the lead role.  I gave a speech at my high school graduation which was quite funny.  That's right, I can actually be funny.  Hard to believe right?  I promise to attempt in future posts to bring a certain level of humor which is admittedly lacking in this post.

My main goal in this class is to acquire the necessary units and get an A.  Honesty is the best policy, right?  In addition to that I also wish to work toward abolishing my crutches in everyday conversation of using the word "like" and occasionally saying "um" or "uhh".  I think that I do a good job of establishing eye contact during formal speech, except that when I have note cards I look at them far frequently.  This is why I prefer not to use note cards, but at times they can be necessary or required, so I definitely need to work on effectively making use of them.  Good luck to everyone else in this class.  I look forward to your insights and critiques and will do my best to make my posts worthwhile reading material.

"We are all all we've done." -Cap'n Jazz