My high school years saw a continuation of straight A's.  I participated in Band � played the clarinet, Yearbook � was Asst. Business Mgr. my junior year and Co-Editor my senior year, and was a member of Art Club.  So yes, I could be lumped into the Geek category.  Although, my group of friends and I were some-what diverse.  We did hang out with non-Geeks from time-to-time.  Freshmen year seemed to be the most fun.  Everything was new and cool.  We could even leave campus for lunch.  However that privilege ended my sophomore year due to too many car accidents from kids trying to get to a restaurant and back before class started.  And of course this happens right when my friends and I are able to drive.  :P  My remaining HS years seemed to get blah-er and blah-er.  If it weren�t for my awesome friends (you know who you are), the whole experience would have sucked.  We had some great times though didn�t we? � Our trips to St. Louis, the slumber parties, the Smashing Pumpkins concert, the trip to Europe!  Click here for a slide show of the good times.   

Next it was off to college for all that higher edju-ma-cation stuff.  I started out at a community college, John A. Logan (JALC).  Instead of the typical 2 year stay it turned into 4 years, but hey I got two associates out of it - one in Science and the other in Computer Information Systems.  To finish up my degree I transferred to Southern Illinois University (SIU).  It was more my idea of "college" than JALC was.  I met some great people, had some shitty class, but also some good ones.  Then finally after 6 long years (that's JALC + SIU or 19 years if you count from kindergarten) I graduated college with a BA in Information Systems Technologies.  Phew!  I�ve finally got that priceless piece of paper. 

And, that pretty much brings us up to speed.  Nothing very interesting has happened lately.  Although, I'm proud to announce that I recently completed my first solo web project for money.  I designed and built a new web site for Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge in Ullin, IL.  And now I working on a similar site for Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in Marion, IL.  I'll let you know when it goes live.  In the meantime I�m on a semi-quest (which means I need a full time job but I'm not looking very hard) for long hours with little pay and lots of stress� in other words, that evil 4-letter word... WORK.  

Still want to learn more about me?  Of course you do.  Don't deny it.  After all, who wouldn't?  So hop on over to my Favorites page now. 
    

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