Hello! I'm Kevin. I feel like it's the first day of school and I'm supposed to tell you something interesting about myself. I always locked up when asked that question-- so, please, bear with me.

I'm a graduate of the University of Florida (GO GATORS!). I have my bachelor's in Psychology and a minor in Education. Both fields interest me greatly, but I'm currently unsure about what direction to choose as far as a career in either, both, or something else entirely. I'm in the process of deciding what I'd like to do regarding that. Right now I'm leaning on getting certified to teach (secondary most likely) but haven't quite determined how I want to go about that (Master's, cert program, or just taking the test [if you're a teacher yourself and can provide some advice, feel free!]) . My heart tells me to go back to school because I really love learning, but my responsible side makes me want to make sure I'm 100% confident in my decision before I make the huge financial commitment to attend a graduate program.

It's cliche, but I'm quite terrible at writing about myself. I tried to add some more pictures to give a better idea of who I am... or at least what I look like (of course, in the pictures that I find most flattering, but that's pretty much par for course here, right?). Also working on adding some explanations on answers to questions. Might help give a little insight to my reasoning behind answers, or just a bit of my personality.

I'm still in the process of creating this thing and figuring out what I want to do with it-- but, feel free to browse around until I get it finished it. Probably won't be a ton of information here right away, but maybe in the future. Thanks for taking a look!

I guess I partially answered this in my "Self-Summary" but... umm, you need to read something here, so... have at.

Currently I'm working in the school system (but not as a teacher). I'm an assistant in an ESE (Exceptional Student Education) classroom, but not the standard kind you might imagine. I work with EBD (Emotional and Behavioral Disorders) middle schoolers. Basically, they're kids who, for whatever reason, have difficulty fitting in with the general population of students without causing problems (obviously it's not that simple... but it requires more discussion to really understand and each student is different). They have a tendency to do some pretty crazy stuff, and on my average day I see and hear things that I never would have imagined when I was in school. I've been cussed at and told to die by 11- and 12-year-old's more than I ever thought I would. (Which is to say "more than none" -- but I assure you the number is much higher.)

No, it's not my dream job-- and the pay is atrocious. But, it is something to occupy me and allow me to gain some firsthand experience in education while I continue to consider options I have for the future. I'm hoping I can transition to something else soon because I will not lie-- the work can be very draining at times.

Starting talking about one thing, and then going off on some incredibly random tangent (thinking, in my head, that this is relevant and I will get back to my original point) and never finishing saying the thing I meant to say in the first place.

Yeah! That's something to be good at! ...no it isn't.

I'm really good at quoting entire Patton Oswalt bits from memory. I swear, that man writes stand-up material that flows better than most songs. There's a poetry to his stand-up, and I love it.

I would hope that if there's one thing I'm actually good at, it's making people laugh. It's not to say that I don't enjoy a good, meaningful discussion about any topic of your choosing-- but I just find it very important to find humor in the world around us. Being able to laugh and joke around helps me feel connected with people and I think it let's them know that I care enough that they don't feel awkward.

Glasses. Wait... umm, actually, maybe that is? I don't know.

What did you notice? I'm just going to make a note to make this section better...

What I've listed here is a general idea of the kinds of things that I like. If I put everything it would just be clunky and awkward so I tried to reduce it down to some of my absolute favorites. I think it's fun to share common favorites, but I'd love to be introduced to new stuff that I might never have found on my own.

Books: Harry Potter*, Hunger Games, The Fault In Our Stars, Watchmen, A Song of Ice And Fire, Scott Pilgrim
Movies: Star Wars, Pixar Movies, Harry Potter, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, District 9, Blade Runner, Children of Men, Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Miyazaki Films, The Room
Shows: The Office, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Community, Parks and Recreation, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Conan
Music: Coheed and Cambria, Streetlight Manifesto, Brand New, Girl Talk, Death Cab For Cutie, and many others...
Food: Sushi is my favorite, but I'm not picky when it comes to anything else.

*Half-Blood Prince is my favorite book and movie from the series. I don't know why I'm specifying this. But, I just enjoyed it most. Maybe it say something about me.

Everything here is gonna sound generic, so... we'll see. Of course I'll say my friends, family all that good stuff. I'm not a crazy anti-social person who hates everyone yet created a profile so people can come here and I can hate them from afar. I like people.

To be completely honest, I don't think I could live without the internet. That might scare people away, but... eh. I love computers and technology in general and use it both for entertainment and education. I think it's pretty wonderful that we've created these super powerful information machines and can do pretty much anything we want with them.

Animals. I love animals. I've had pets my entire life. I had been dog-less for about a year after my family lost our awesome black lab, Bo (he can been seen in one of my pictures). Just recently got an awesome little Boston Terrier. Huge departure from what I'm used to with big dogs, but he certainly packs a ton of personality and energy into his little 23ish lb body. He's a rescue, so he's 2 years old and is quickly adapting to his new life. I also have a pet turtle who is about 20. She's been with me since I was in preschool... so, quite a while.

Over-analyzing things. Sometimes I think too much.

Either staying home browsing the internet, watching a movie, playing a game, or out with friends doing probably the same things.

I've seen more episodes of Degrassi than any guy my age should have... *sigh*

Also, I thought that The Dark Knight Rises was okay. I much preferred The Avengers.

Message me if you want to ask me about something on here... or maybe something that isn't! Who knows?! Or if you just want to say 'hi.' That's nice, too.

Wow. I just noticed that towards the end of this profile the different sections really show that I was getting lazy. Eh. Maybe someday I'll add to them.

Can we just imagine this is like websites back in the day and I put up an awesome low-res "under constuction" .jpg and everyone will be like: "Oh, awesome! This site is super gnarly cool and there will be more of it some day! Tubular, dude!"

That's how we talked in the 90s. Never forget.

DFTBA