My early addiction... Computer games!

Hmm... What to say that NetTerrorists can't use against me?
Well, I have been bouncing around this here planet for 22 years.
Through reputed rainstorms and capacino cascades, I was born and raised 100% pure Seattle, Washington. The peaceful evergreens and jagged young terrains strike something elementally important to me. Which doesn't mean I feel any driving inclination to don burkenstox, chew granola, and traverse long and boring mountain trails, I just like the scenery.
Although I am definitely a city boy, for the last 8 years, my dad has owned a house on the North Fork of the Lewis River, down in Woodland, Washington. There, we just folks. Actually, I think we're less than folks; my father being a rather ruddy japanese person and my stepmother being of slightly spanish descent, the general plaid-shirt wearin', log loppin', tebaccy chawin' populace thinks we're those pesky (and I say this quite sarcastically, I'm intolerant of intolerance) Mexicans who steal stolid american berry-picking jobs. That's me. Migrant.

This is me in Alaska, actually, but i look happy. and the bleeding thing is a salmon.
Anywayz, the reason we have the house is so we can just sorta jump on a lil' boat and bumble up the river a few yards for some quality summer steelheading!
I've been fishing since I was 7 years old, when the fish had a pretty good chance of hauling me in the water before my diminutive stature could haul them out (steelhead supposedly pull 3 times their weight. and N. Fork Lewis steelhead are usually between 7 and 20 lbs.) So "Fishcamp," as my cursed father so nauseatingly named it upon the purchase, is base to many fond memories.
But enough of nature!
I'm half-japanese, and half a crazy mix of mostly caucasian stuff even my mom doesn't know about. Although there's supposedly some tiny bit o' Cherokee in my Memphis blood (1/32 or 1/64, depending). Neat-o! I M N NDN! (I am an indian, say da letterz out loud)

For education, I've been subjected to Seattle's private school systems (lah-deeee-daaah). I attended Lakeside, the middle/high school that ol' Billie Gatesies went to. Learn't all about intergrals, valence shells, and ballistic pendulums in Allen/Gates, a fine spanking new building of untold cost, with a surprisingly leaky roof.
After graduating from there with a numbing sense of "uh-oh, RealLife coming up," I bundled up all my favorite books, a change of boxers, and my lucky Q-tip... and flapped all the way to Lewiston, Maine, in order to attend Bates College.
Being a wide-eyed freshman upon my arrival (which couldn't rilly be helped, the registrar (say that out loud. Registrar. Registrar. what a LAME job title!) designated me as one. I guess all those 3's on my AP tests don't count for much.) I took it as my duty to explore new stuff. Which meant, with my dad being doctorish and my mom being psychologistish and me having a healthily excessive math and visual art background, that Music and Economics beckoned me.
So here I am. A tired overworked senior who's a declared double major in Music and Economics. Since arriving here, I have consistantly taken over the recommended courseload, but I'm still writing both of my theses at the SAME TIME! ACK! Runaway and hide. And trying to juggle my guitar practice, some 14-15 hours of martial arts, self teaching japanese, and sleep in there is kinda tough. Whee!
My hobbies are eclectic, but fun, IMHO. I fish, mushroom hunt, make/throw boomerangs, play computer games, play guitar, teach basic guitar, take tae kwon do, lift weights, take aikido, play with nunchakus, take bokken, play with bo/jo staff, harrass people, give neck/back massages, wrestle, play racquetball, and probably other stuff too. (2000, jiujitsu, kung fu, learning japanese).
As a person, I'm either the person across the room who is sooo annoying you just want to scream, or I'm that close friend you trust with anything. I take my life very seriously, do most everything with deliberation. Mostly because its easier to do things either black or white, I don't smoke or drink. (Kiyoshi means morally pure, which cracks up my friends). I far prefer talking one-on-one versus hanging out in groups.
Currently, (as of 2000, this isn't true cause im at school, but im not feeling like updating) current being the Summer of '99, I'm working at Real Networks for my second year as an intern in the Media Publishing group. Last summer i was program manager for a site in partnership with Rolling Stone Network called Rolling Stone Radio and now I'm involved with MusicNet, Live Concerts, and Real Guide, all RealNetworks run media sites. For my non-working time, I try to get out and play racquetball with my dad, go to jiujitsu classes at Seattle School of Brazilian Jiujitsu, jumprope, run, play Darkwind, sleep, and hang out with friends and family. Its a busy life but somebodies gotta do it.
Finally, there's my best friend, Julie. She is my FPD. (Focal Point of Distraction). If you can't figure out what she means to me, then yah don't need to know. :) She gets my free time. The sad thing is, she's in Seattle, and I'm in Maine. Which means... thats right folks, MonsterPhoneBills (tm)! Oh well. I can always pawn my guitars (like hell, she goes first ;)

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