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Full Name: Cameron John Osborne Martin.
About the Name: Cameron; Gaelic, meaning crooked nose. I have two middle names.
Age: 20
Eye Color: A pleasing shade of blue.
Height: Anywhere from 6'2" to 6'4", depending on my choice of shoe.
Job: Professional student, chronic intern, aspiring Dharma Bum.
Hometown: Long Beach, NY
Current Residence: Fairfield, CT
Overall personality: Swinging from reclusively introverted to exuberantly bubbly.
Political party: Apathetic / Cynical.
Religion: Zen Buddhism / The Religion of Snow / Love.
Hobbies: Poetry writing, fiction writing, literature, music, singing.
Favorite color: Green, Brown.
Favorite animal: Rabbits.
Favorite books: "Into the Wild" by John Krakauer, "Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac, "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut.
Favorite authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Garth Nix, Robert Frost, Jonathan Saffron Foyer, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Favorite poetry: Free-verse and beat.
Favorite movies: "Hook," "Disney's Robin Hood," "Lord of the Rings Trilogy," "Star Wars Trilogy."
Favorite songs: Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek, Colin Hay - Waiting for My Real Life to Begin, Sufjan Stevens - Vito's Ordination Song
Favorite drinks: Spiced rum, stout beers, Coca-Cola, decent quality to excellent quality coffee
Most likely to say: "Welp... See you later." "That'll happen." "There's your problem..."
Least likely to say: "The "Our Father."
Personal heros: Christopher McCandless, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
Favorite art style: Realism, expressionism, surrealism
Most likely downfall: Consumed by madness.
Least likely downfall: Martyred for my faith.
Quirks: Ability to recite long passages from anything on one hearing, incessant deafness, prone to zoning out and staring blankly and open-mouthed at a blank wall.
Things I Don't Understand: Damn near everything.
Worst habits: Addictive personality, drinking, picking at scars, fierce anxiety, under-planning, over-analyzing, hypochondriac, procrastinator extraordinaire.
Thing I'm most often asked: "Wow, you're tall - do you play basketball?"
Answer: "NO."
Why not?: I'm a medical mess.
Greatest aspiration: Published poet and author, respected teacher.
Not-so-great aspirations: To travel the world funded by my own ingenuity and the good grace of strangers.
Most realistic aspiration: Survive college.
Most unrealistic aspiration: Published poet and author, respected teacher.
Reason for creating a blog: Sheer boredom.
Reason for continuing this blog: To sort my thoughts.

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