NAME: Cormier, Jason Alan (call me Jason)

BORN: November 25, 1974, 9:14 PM EST

EMAIL: Jason@Cormier.org(preferred address)
wildrose82@hotmail.com
stucormi@acs.eku.edu

EDUCATION:
K: Eduplay (some kind of center or other, private school)
1-5: Wade Shacklette Elementary
6-8: Aubrey Conway Middle School
9-12: Pleasure Ridge Park HS, Class of 1993
College 1-4: Transylvania University, Class of 1997
Grad School: Eastern Kentucky University (August 1998-December 2001)
BA in Biology
Minor: Philosophy
HS GPA: 4.0
College Undergrad GPA: 3.22
Grad School GPA: 3.588
Thesis Work: Loggerhead Shrike habitat and hunting perch use.
Career plans: To eventually earn a PhD in ecological/environmental science and work for a consulting firm or US Government, perhaps starting my own company eventually.

INTERESTS: Biology, philosophy , music of all forms, particularly country and classical, playing violin (15 years and counting), travel, good books, mountains, lakes, good, unpretentious poetry, computers, left-handedness, academic competition, role-playing games, postcards, coins and currency (I once bought a million dollar (well, pre-WWI German Mark) bill for $5...I thought it was a good deal), the space program, history, geysers, canyons, Denny's runs at 2.00 AM, good friends, good fellowship, time travel and other aspects of physics that no one understands (the stuff where you don't necessarily have to know what you're talking about), bad chess, really bad basketball, making people think I can play the piano, Star Wars (the movies, not the defensive system), literacy tutoring, hearts, spades, poker, mao , cribbage, the ocean, whales, great sunsets, thunderstorms with lots of lightning (best fireworks show around), volleyball, French stuff, Celtic stuff, general weirdness, lively discussion, good iced tea (don't order iced tea in the northeast, they haven't mastered the concept of "brewing" yet), good, unpretentious visual art (sculpture, paintings, etc), other things that aren't coming to mind right now, but probably will...

DISLIKES: -isms, stinging insects, drugs (slowly poisoning oneself....wow, isn't that cool), sweet potatoes, intolerance, narrow-mindedness, Newt Gingrich, Jesse Helms, stupidity, bureaucracy, hypocrisy, censorship, people who can't admit they're wrong, senseless violence (hence my dislike of the Republican pary) televised golf, canned tea.

Favorite Color: Red

Favorite Sports Teams/Figures: the Dallas Cowboys, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Chicago White Sox, the St. Louis Cardinals, whoever plays the 49ers or Redskins that week, Dale Earnhardt (Go #3!)

Favorite Books: Anything by Agatha Christie, Tom Clancy, or Timothy Zahn, Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary, The Spiral Dance, by Starhawk, Survival At Auschwitz, by Primo Levi, Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, Tom Landry: An Autobiography, Yeager, by Chuck Yeager, Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de St. Exupery (even though the ending is depressing), anything by Dave Sim, City of Truth, by James Morrow.

Favorite Movies: The Star Wars Trilogy, anything by George Lucas and/or Steven Spielberg, "Apollo 13", "The Right Stuff", Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, anything by Alfred Hitchcock, Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources, Kenneth Branaugh's Henry V, Twelve Monkeys, Braveheart, Titanic, The Usual Suspects, The Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, Life Is Beautiful, The Red Violin.

Favorite TV Shows: Babylon 5, Crusade, Law & Order

Favorite Composer (living): John Williams

Favorite Composer (dead): Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Vivaldi

Heroes (public, living): Chuck Yeager, Mark O'Connor (violinist extraordinaire), Charlie Daniels, Dr. James Watson, Dr. Francis Crick

Heroes (public, dead): Nicolo Paganini, Gregor Mendel, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nicola Tesla.

Heroes (personal): My parents, my grandmother, Mrs. Joyce Stewart (5th grade teacher, sat me down, told me I could do so much better than I was doing, and that she believed in me. I took her advice and haven't looked back), Mr. Jack Swann and Ms. Lois Allen (two HS teachers that got me interested enough in science to make it a career)

Favorite Musicians: Jascha Heifetz, Roy Orbison, Garth Brooks, Mark O'Connor, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Bob Seger, Counting Crows, Hal Ketchum, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Kathy Mattea, Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band, Barbra Streisand, Pam Tillis, Charlie Daniels, the Chieftans, Capercaillie, Natalie Merchant, Fleetwood Mac (particularly the talented and very beautiful Stevie Nicks).

Favorite Songs: Big Empty (Stone Temple Pilots), Amazing Grace (anyone with a half-way decent voice), Maybe It Was Memphis (Pam Tillis), The Dance (Garth Brooks), Finale of Ninth Symphony (Beethoven/Menzel), O Fortuna from Carmina Burana (Carl Orff), Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde), Daughter, Dissident (both by Pearl Jam), Let Her Cry (Hootie and the Blowfish), Pink Houses (John Mellencamp), Crying (Roy Orbison), Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler), Wonder (Natalie Merchant), Iain Ghlinn' Cuaich (Irish traditional, performed by Capercaille), Red Is The Rose (Irish traditional, performed by Nanci Griffith and the Chieftans), Rhiannon, The Chain, many others by Fleetwood Mac.

Favorite Poet: e.e. cummings Click here for the best thing he ever wrote