Pieces of Shep

Inspired by my friend Trix, I decided to let you, my loyal reader(s) in on some pieces of me that you might not know.

I collect the board game Monopoly.  I’ve done this for several years.  I have only purchased 1 of the 20+ versions of the board game I have.  I didn’t intend to start collecting them.  It is my favorite game and one year for Christmas I received 3 or 4 versions from various family members.  Since then, I’ve been getting them on a regular basis as gifts.  My favorite has to be the St. Louis Cardinals version or the Classic version that comes in a wood box.  The only one I purchased for myself was an edition from 1935, which is the first year they were mass-produced by a game manufacturing company.

I have a BSEd in History but I work as a web developer.  Finding a job teaching high school social studies is hard as it is an overpopulated field.  Will I go back to teaching?  I’m not quite sure yet.  I also work part time as a teacher for Sylvan Learning Center.

The worst job I ever had was working at my family’s restaurant. It was the summer before my freshman year of high school.  Most of the time I did maintenance jobs around the building.  This was not an easy task on a building that was built before the Civil War.  When I wasn’t in the blistering heat (that was a hot summer!) doing maintenance, I was in the kitchen either cutting strawberries or wrapping potatoes in foil.  Fun stuff, I know.

I love the TV show Saved by the Bell.  Yeah, if you read this blog, you already know that.  It’s a guilty pleasure of mine and reminds me of a much simpler time.

The only movie to ever scare me as a kid was The Exorcist.  That movie was ahead of its time.

I wish I was still in college.  I love the college environment and would love to go back.  I also love learning and would love to take all the classes I wanted to while I was in school but didn’t have the time to take them.  I would also love to teach at the collegiate level.  I’d need to get my PhD in order to be a professor in history though, and I don’t have the time or the money for that right now.  I don’t even have the time or money to start my Master’s.  Some day…

Well, there you have it.  Some things about me you might not have known.  I hope you learned a little more about me and now realize I’m more awesome than you once thought. ;)

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3 replies
    • shep
      shep says:

      more awesome. you know i am. you know it’s hard to contain yourself when you encounter my awesomeness. don’t be afraid of the awesomeness. It will not hurt you. It will just make you slightly more awesome.

  2. The Moderator
    The Moderator says:

    That is SO weird. I have started to receive Monopoly as well. Over the last two years, I have acquired (through no fault of my own) the Night Sky edition, the Simpson’s edition, the Cardinals 2006 World Series edition, and the U.S. Navy Edition.

    I don’t even play. I just dropped a line at a family get-together on Father’s Day last year. I mentioned that I really liked the Night Sky Edition, and suddenly that’s all I’m getting from friends and family. I like the Night Sky Edition because I’m into Astronomy, not because it’s Monopoly. But will these people listen? NOooOOoo…. I don’t even own an “original” edition of the game.

    Oh, and did you know you can print your own Monopoly money online? It’s true!

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