Joe |
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Jen |
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Ware, MA, Nov. 7, 1974
Raised in West Brookfield, MA |
Born & Raised
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Rockland, ME, Aug. 22, 1974
Raised in Spruce Head, ME |
Yes – he had his sports (graduated as Athlete of the Year), liked the schoolwork OK, and he was popular |
Liked School? |
No, she was bored with the curriculum and was unpopular due to her extreme hideousness as she was led to believe |
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Valedictorian out of about 70 |
Class Rank |
Salutatorian (loser) out of about 70 |
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Lower than Jen’s |
SAT Score |
Higher than Joe's – but both scores were somewhat sad, so we’re not going to say what they were here |
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Didn’t choose engineering until late high school. Before that, he was thinking about maybe teaching |
Past Career Aspirations |
Deciding between fashion design and astronomy, and was serious about both – even just before the college applications went out |
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RPI, Troy, NY
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Took 5 years to complete (because he did a co-op program, not because he had to stay back) |
College |
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Major: Double major Physics and Astronomy
Started grad school at U of Michigan for astronomy – left after one semester because she finally realized that astronomy (as a career) was really boring |
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Engineering Quality Assurance Manager, which is somewhat related to his college major |
Career |
Web Development/Design Manager, which is in no way related to her college major |
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- Spreadsheets
- Playing with his nieces and nephews
- Shopping for clothes (he always comes out with 3 times the bags than Jen does)
- Cooking & grilling
- The Red Sox, even when they’re sucking
- Hiking & camping
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Likes |
- Outlets and clearance sales for the sport of it
- Action movies
- Fabric shopping, designing, & sewing
- Designing websites
- Playing games with a good-sized group
- Cats
- Action/adventure video games
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- Japanese knotweed (his sworn nemesis)
- Disorganization
- Going fabric shopping with Jen (well, everyone hates that)
- The Yankees
- Doing laundry
- That groundhog
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Dislikes |
- Sub-standard cheese and bagels
- “chick flicks”
- Kitchen store shopping with Joe
- Yardwork
- Cooking
- Dogs
- Most sports (except football)
- That groundhog
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George Clooney |
Would trade faces with... |
Angelina Jolie |
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Rodney Harrison (SS, 37 – the harder he hits someone, the more excited Joe gets) |
Favorite Patriot |
Corey “Stiff-Arm” Dillon (RB, 28 – he’s just awesome) |
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The only food he doesn’t like is olives for reasons unknown (although he couldn’t live without olive oil). Likes trendy restaurants with what Jen considers “weird” food combos. He is an excellent cook, and loves to grill outside. |
Favorite Foods |
Good cheese, candy (especially jellybeans and good salt water taffy), scrambled eggs, pasta, rice, Joe’s hamburgers. Other than that, the menu becomes somewhat limited. Veggies are something better left alone. |
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| Likes to power up straightaways at the speed of light due to his massive muscular Veritek (Sox catcher) thights. Then takes pics while he waits at the top for Jen to catch up |
Hiking Style |
Hates the straightaways because Joe goes too fast; likes rock scrambling and that’s where she takes the lead since she’s lighter and more flexible. Would like to learn real rock climbing. |
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Open a B&B |
When I retire... |
Do something with fabric |
- Was only in one school yard fight where he split a kid’s lip open – but it was for a noble cause
- Elimination of crab grass on our lawn is his next quest
- Maybe he can sing or dance, but this is unknown because he won’t do either
- Always parks in the same section of the mall parking lot, even if the store we want is at the other side of the mall
- "Brown Eyed Girl" plays on Joe's cell phone when Jen calls him
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Other tidbits |
- Worse eyesight than Mr. Magoo
- Cannot do arithmetic (although vector calculus was no problem). Always the last one left adding up their Yahtzee scores
- The one that owns more tools
- Loves gift-wrapping
- Has not yet lost the habit of twirling her hair constantly
- There is no sense writing down any of the cute stories from when she was a kid, because my family tends to take care of that during any family gathering
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Our shows that we never miss:
24, Prison Break, House, Idol, Monk, and Patriots games
A movie that we both had in common on our "favorite movies" list on eHarmony:
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Our regular restaurants:
Bertuccis, that Thai restaurant in the plaza in Andover, Joseph's, Pedro Diego's |
