About Me

My Name:
Full Name: Jonathan Richard Gill

Specs:
Age: 26
Birthdate: June 19, 1980
Phone Number: 612-730-2281 (but I'm taking this off if I think it's being abused!)
Email adress: royal_helmut@yahoo.com

Favorites:
Band: Five Iron Frenzy, Caedmon's Call
Meat: Bacon!!!
Movies: Braveheart, Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dumb and Dumber, The Matrix,
Toy Stories 1 and 2, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo + Juliet, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, UHF, and like a million more

The 10 Most Interesting Things About Me:
1. I play 5 instruments: guitar, bass, piano, trumpet, and harmonica.
2. I have written 125(?) poems, which are all on this site.
3. I own approximately 325 movies and about 200 CD's. (See It!)
4. I have moderate training in 2 martial arts.
5. I compiled a Book of Stuff and Things, which was the inspiration to start this website in 2002. So far it is 600 pages thick, but could easily be over 1000 if I chose to keep working on it. (See it!)
6. I have read 29 of the 39 Shakespeare plays, some of them 5 times or more.
7. I have traveled to 43 U.S. States and 20 countries. They are, in order: USA, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Kuwait, Iraq, Italy, Ireland (for 2 hrs), Thailand, and Japan (for 8 hours), Mexico (4 hours), and Vatican City. I have seen 85% or more of these countries: USA, Kuwait, Germany, and Liechtenstein.
8. I have studied (to some degree) 12 foreign languages, and can read and write in 5 alphabets. The languages are (in order of proficiency): Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Latin, Dutch, Czech, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, and Hebrew. The alphabets are the Latin, Greek, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Hebrew.
9. I was a United States Marine, spent 6 years in the reserves, stationed at Fort Snelling, MN, with Military Police Company (MPCO, HQBN, 4thMARDIV, USMCR). And yes, I was in Kuwait and Iraq (all the way to Baghdad) during the 2003 war. And then I was in Al-Asad, Al-Anbar province, 2005-2006. And if "once a Marine, always a Marine", then why reenlist? I'll be getting my honorable discharge this summer!
10. I am a Linguistics major, TESL minor, at the University of Minnesota, and also president of the Juggling Club at the University of Minnesota



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