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Mein Gedankengang - My Train of Thought
Nicholas Alexander
Created on 2002-08-22 13:47:02 (#678021), last updated 2009-11-03
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Basic Info| Name: | Nicholas Alexander |
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| Birthdate: | 1973-11-07 |
| Location: | Arlington, Virginia, United States |
BioI teach. Well, I coach. I coach people how to communicate. In English. I could probaby use a coach myself. Or at least an editor!
My touchstone ethic is to be as honest as possible. I think we're all too often ashamed of ourselves, so we hide, we don't share enough of our selves. I'm a very practical yet optimistic person: we're just not around long enough to waste time.
I skate a line between not caring about the superficial while also appreciating some of its better aesthetics. I try not to judge people, figuring that whatever you've lived through just makes you a richer person.
I don't believe in good and evil. My last (and actually first) word is to paraphrase the Buddhist: (with respect to the complex interaction of our intentions, actions, and resultant reactions) at each and every moment you have two and only two choices: to increase happiness or to increase suffering. You decide.
What I'm doing with my life:
I teach English as a second or other language to adults here in the old industrial heart of Germany -- the Ruhr area -- the most populous conurbation in Europe.
I'm really good at:
Communication. I'm a great friend in that I have a knack for listening and uncannily hearing what's left unsaid. I love languages, and my ideal holiday would be going abroad learning the local ways and means and jumping right in!
The first thing(s) people usually notice about me:
Typically it's my bright blue eyes. (It's the worst pickup line I get, as there's not much conversation to be launched from that one. "Um, thanks, good breeding, I guess?" I mean, what do you say?)
Then it's my deep, suprisingly authoratative voice. Again, it's also partly breeding thing, I think, but here I've got more input. I like hearing I have a pleasing voice. :)
My favorite books, movies, music, and foods are:
Book: always the one I'm currently reading, whatever it is, however good or bad it is. I'm very much a live-in-the-moment kinda person. That said, I recently finished "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy -- a fine, engulfing book.
Movies: include "Best in Show", "Waiting for Guffman", "Fight Club", "Pump Up the Volume", anything with Sean Penn, Reece Witherspoon or Nicole Kidman.
Music: Pop. Yes, I know. But I like it! And dance music, especially Techno. Yes, I know. But I like it!
TV: Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Studio 60, et al.
Foods: Everything and anything fresh. Love spicey. Love ethnic.
The SIX things I could never do without:
Love. Communication. Struggle. Progress. My neti pot. My brain.
My touchstone ethic is to be as honest as possible. I think we're all too often ashamed of ourselves, so we hide, we don't share enough of our selves. I'm a very practical yet optimistic person: we're just not around long enough to waste time.
I skate a line between not caring about the superficial while also appreciating some of its better aesthetics. I try not to judge people, figuring that whatever you've lived through just makes you a richer person.
I don't believe in good and evil. My last (and actually first) word is to paraphrase the Buddhist: (with respect to the complex interaction of our intentions, actions, and resultant reactions) at each and every moment you have two and only two choices: to increase happiness or to increase suffering. You decide.
What I'm doing with my life:
I teach English as a second or other language to adults here in the old industrial heart of Germany -- the Ruhr area -- the most populous conurbation in Europe.
I'm really good at:
Communication. I'm a great friend in that I have a knack for listening and uncannily hearing what's left unsaid. I love languages, and my ideal holiday would be going abroad learning the local ways and means and jumping right in!
The first thing(s) people usually notice about me:
Typically it's my bright blue eyes. (It's the worst pickup line I get, as there's not much conversation to be launched from that one. "Um, thanks, good breeding, I guess?" I mean, what do you say?)
Then it's my deep, suprisingly authoratative voice. Again, it's also partly breeding thing, I think, but here I've got more input. I like hearing I have a pleasing voice. :)
My favorite books, movies, music, and foods are:
Book: always the one I'm currently reading, whatever it is, however good or bad it is. I'm very much a live-in-the-moment kinda person. That said, I recently finished "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy -- a fine, engulfing book.
Movies: include "Best in Show", "Waiting for Guffman", "Fight Club", "Pump Up the Volume", anything with Sean Penn, Reece Witherspoon or Nicole Kidman.
Music: Pop. Yes, I know. But I like it! And dance music, especially Techno. Yes, I know. But I like it!
TV: Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Studio 60, et al.
Foods: Everything and anything fresh. Love spicey. Love ethnic.
The SIX things I could never do without:
Love. Communication. Struggle. Progress. My neti pot. My brain.
ConnectInterests (47):
amsterdam, apple computers, board games, buddhism, cooking, distorted view, dutch, elt, eminem, english, entertaining, esl, essen, evan doorbell, expatriot, fuzzy logic, german, germany, graphic design, hard house, internet scrabble, john waters, katg, keith and the girl, lds, monopoly, mormon, nederlands, netherlands, phreaking, plants, poland, polish, rails across america, risk, rugby, ruhrgebiet, scrabble, singing, teaching, techno, tesol, theonion.com, travelling, vegan, veganism, weight training
Schools:
Carpentersville Middle School - Carpentersville, IL (1986 - 1988)Dundee-Crown High School - Carpentersville, IL (1988 - 1992)
Indiana University - Bloomington - Bloomington, IN (1992 - 1996)
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