Introduction According to my birth certificate my name is Shawn Christopher Troxler, although I was never particularly fond of my middle name. I was raised in a town never really on any maps named Ama, of course if it were on a map it would require a microscope to view the four streets in which reside there. Once I turned seven-teen my family and I made the parish long journey to a slightly larger town dubbed Bayou Gauche; once again not much to tell, although this humble bayou town has its perks. Dracula 2000, Jona Hex, and ironically All the King’s Men were filmed only minutes from where I rest my head. I originally enrolled into Nicholls with the hopes of becoming a video game programmer, but soon realized staring at a computer screen for countless hours was not really on my top ten things to do list. From there I jumped over to dietetics for a few years, and then meandered into the management program. Now, roughly seven years later, I am finally settling into a General Studies degree. Hopefully this will be my last stop, because quite frankly I am running low on funding. Personal Information Like all others I am sure, I enjoy sitting with a novel rather than watching endless reality shows where all the plots are the same only the names have changed, although I rarely have the time to read as often as I would like. (Managing a restaurant consumes the majority of it.) I am a fan of Stephen King, R.A. Salvator, and slowly becoming a fan of Dean Koontz. Early on my attentions were on Sci-fi only, but now I enjoy the occasional mystery, thriller, or even romantic comedy.
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