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Garreth \"Karate Explosion\" Blackwell

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Highschool

College

Interests

my freaking awesome magazine (get on board as an investor now), painting, Red Sox Baseball, Cooking, Socio-political Ranting, foreign films, dogs, traveling, chinese food, changing the world, downing the Man, entreprenurial enterprises, sitting and thinking, a thing in a bag

Favorite Music

Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, Coldplay, The Beatles, Howie Day, Bob Marley, N.E.R.D., The Postal Service, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, John Lennon

Favorite Movies

Amelie, City of God, Hotel Rwanda, A Very Long Engagement, Motorcycle Diaries, Shaun of the Dead, Dodgeball, Austin Powers, Triplettes of Belleville

Favorite Books

Mere Christianity, Walking on Water, Ragamuffin Gospel, Blue Like Jazz, Celebration of Disciplines, Roald Dahl stuff, Catcher in the Rye

Other Websites

It may seem long, but it's really not. Just read it.

August 24 2005

I have been to all of my classes and have got the run down of all my responsibilities for this year in Grad School. Here are the highlights:

Quotations from professors that explain my classes:

Class 1 - Advanced Topics
"Blah blah blah...drone drone drone...blah blah blah." (This continued for 3 hours; no break.)

Class 2 - Social Research
"I'm not telling anyone toleave graduate school, but..."

Class 3 - Mass Comm Theory
"Slknw jbkjbnsvnjk theory bsdfihsidf jknjksd kjnsd theory jadfbczj theory." (Yeah, I stilldon't know what the class is about."

Class 4 - Sociological Statistics
"You teach yourself. Do through chapter three. See you next Wednesday."

I also teach several lab sections:

Dr.Husni (department head): "You will be teaching photojournalism and layout and design classes with Dr. Cheers. Never take him for a class."
Me: "Ha ha!" (whole-hearted)

then...

Me: "Yeah, I'm Dr.Cheers' lab instructor."
Allen (fellow grad assistant): "That sucks!"
Me: "Ha ha." (Note the lack of exclamation point.)

and finally...

Me: "I need the old syllabus; I'm taking over Dr. Cheers' labs."
Tim (old lab instructor): "Dude,I'm sorry."
Me: "That's not funny anymore."

But truthfully, I can't complain. I love to read and write and hang out with good friends--and being able to do 2 out of 3 ain't half bad. It's going to be a great year.