A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME
Stress Relievers...
I enjoy physical activity. I played basketball and ran track and cross-country in high school. I still enjoy basketball and golf when I get a chance. I try to go to the gym as much as possible and I also play on two intramural softball teams.Humor and Sports are the two things I watch on television. If I'm not watching ESPN, I'm watching The Office, Family Guy, or the Daily Show and Colbert Report.
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I enjoy taking a few minutes each day to check out some of my favorite online comic strips. My favorite happens to be PhD Comics, which was created by a Stanford PhD student that only slightly alters the realities of life in graduate school to create some side-splitting humor. (Much of the humor will be lost on most people because of odd nature and people of grad school.) Many other worthwhile sites include XKCD Comics, Not From Concentrate, and Cyanide & Happiness.
Husker Football...
I am a huge Nebraska Cornhusker fan (fanatic really). I remember sitting by the radio on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid, throwing around a football, and listening to Husker games. Following my Huskers has become much easier nowadays with the expansive television coverage of college football. So even in D.C., I will be able to watch by beloved Huskers. Also, Washington D.C. has a Husker watch site, which allows me to watch games with fellow Husker fans even though I am half way across the country. I'm looking forward to this coming season and seeing a renewed passion from the players on the field, no matter the final score.
Travel...
I've recently done quite a bit of traveling over the last few months. My first round of interviews was in New Orleans, Louisiana during the first week of January. In February, I had fly-out interviews to Illinois State University in Normal/Bloomington, Illinois, Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and NIST just outside of Washington, D.C. Although I have not had a chance to travel for leisure recently, I do enjoy seeing different areas of the United States as well international travel. I especially enjoyed my two-week trips to Australia and Canada. The picture to the left is Ayers Rock in the Outback. I intend to get a few more pictures posted in the near future.