RESUME
Lawn care technician (One push mower. Two acres. Much character building.)
Dishwasher
Lifeguard
Construction worker
Mailman (Two days. Possible record for shortest career with U.S. Postal Service.)
Reporter/photographer for college newspaper
Submarine hunter
Grocery clerk
Union leader
Public relations practitioner for Safeway Stores
Employee communications manager for Alaska Airlines

FAVORITE MUSIC
"Symphony No.7, Lenningrad" - Dmitri Shostakovich
"White Stones" - Secret Garden
"Perceval la queta du Graal" - La Nef
"Scheherazade" - Rimsky Korsakov
"Mambo Sinuendo" - Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban
"Cafe Atlantico" - Cesaria Evora

FAVORITE MOVIE LINES
"Round up the usual suspects" - Claude Rains in "Casablanca."
"I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star!" - Peter O'Toole in "My Favorite Year."

LIBATION OF CHOICE
Diet Coke

FAVORITE SPORT
Fencing (In case the pen is not mightier than the sword.)

FAVORITE FOOD
Spaghetti

CURRENT READING
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J.K Rowling
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking," by Julia Childs
"The Bang, Bang Club" by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
"Freedom from Fear: the American People in Depression and War," by David M. Kennedy
"Paris 1919," by Margaret MacMillan

RECENT TRAVELS
Thailand (Best snakehead soup I've ever eaten.)
Korea
Russian Far East
Italy (Loved the gun battle outside my hotel.)
Hong Kong
People's Republic of China
Yucatan Peninsula (King-size bugs and giant lizards)
Macau
Las Vegas
Eqypt (Ripped off by taxi driver the first day. Caught dysentery the second. Downhill from there.)
Hawaii
England (Great sights. Horrible food.)
France (Great sights. Great food. Too many French people.)
Japan (Home of $80 spaghetti dinners and $200 taxi rides.)
Washington D.C. (One block from Pentagon on 9/11)
Caribbean
Morocco
Spain
Fiji
Australia (The United States in 1958)
New Zealand

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