Curious about the guy sending all of the emails about the Menlo School network?Get to know him better!
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CoA: What was your worst subject in school?
ED: Probably lunch to be honest. For me, I always enjoyed school in that I could go in and learn the material and feel pretty confident about the tests and stuff. But the one thing that probably used to give me the most anxiety was lunch.You know, being young and being kind of a geek and a nerd and not having any group of kids to sit with.
CoA: Any least favorite teacher stories?
ED: I would say it was my Vice Principal who taught me the hard way. I learned the meaning of truth. […] He had a thing for making everybody cry. He was like the real tough guy, the disciplinary person. So one thing we used to do a lot back in school was play handball, and we used to play on the wall. And there was this one kid who was a bit of a rabble-rouser, he was a troublemaker. Next thing you know he starts taking the balls and throwing them up on the roof, and he took mine, which happened to be a really good racquet ball and he threw it on the roof and I couldn’t get it. So I went to the Vice Principal about it and told him what happened, that this guy threw my ball up on the roof and it’s gone. So the guy who threw my ball on the roof brought in like five other kids to say he didn’t do it, and then my Vice Principal just looked at me and said, “Well I got five people here saying he didn’t do it and then you’re here saying he did do it.”
CoA: Any pet peeves?
ED: Oh, I got tons. Whenever I hear a fire alarm go off, and the operations department will attest to this, there’s always this sense of urgency. And I remember I was in second grade, and I was in the bathroom “making potty” as we all do back then and the fire alarm went off. And I’m like freaking out because I’m trying to hurry up, and clean up, and get out so I did like a 3/4 of a good job because, like fire! So I go out there and find out that it’s a drill, and that was probably the first time in my life that I ever felt pure anger. So ever since then, whenever I hear fire alarm go off, and I feel that rush of energy and urgency, I’m like, “well let’s not go too crazy because it might not be real.”
CoA: What was your first job?
ED: My first real job was working at McDonalds. I worked the grill and it was a rather boring job. It was just all the repetition got tedious. You start clocking how long things should take, and based on that number when your done your like ‘based on that number only seven minutes passed.’ […] I was about sixteen.
CoA: What is your favorite TV show?
ED: I watch a lot of Star Trek. […] If you were to pull up the stats on it, it would probably be that.
CoA: What is your most embarrassing moment?
ED: [One developmental skill] that I missed was fasion. It’s really been a trial and error process. What I do now is if I have something new that I am going to wear, I will wear it over the weekend and then I’ll come into work wearing it because sometimes you just don’t know what is going to happen. So my most embarrassing moment was in seventh grade, and someone gave me [a hand me down pair of shorts]. What I didn’t know was that these were boxer shorts. So I went into school that day wearing these transparent boxers. And that definitely got me a few trophies as far as embarrassing moments.
