Hey everyone, I'm Tom.  I'm 23 years old and live in Columbia, Missouri, a town of about 80,000 people right in the center of the United States.

I'm a college graduate, with two Bachelor's degrees, one in Fisheries Management and one in Forestry.  I currently work for the state of Missouri's Department of Conservation​, in their Fisheries section.  I help sample different fish species, assist landowners, and help in hatcheries and with stocking.  It's pretty fun, and keeps me busy.

I'm open to anyone who wants to learn more about the states, and I'd love to learn more about other cultures.

Reading, camping, concerts and shows, bars, fishing, hunting, trapping, music, guitar, backpacking,​ travel

AC/DC/ Aerosmith Alexis Korner Alice Cooper The Allman Brothers Band The Animals Arlo Guthrie Bad Company Barenaked Ladies BB King The Beatles Beck Jeff Beck Ben Folds Big Bill Broonzy Billy Idol Black Oak Arkansas Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Melon Blink 182 Bloodhound Gang Blue Rodeo The Blues Brothers Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Boston Buddy Guy Buddy Holly Buffalo Springfield Bush Cake Canned Heat The Carpenters Cheap Trick Chemical Brothers Chuck Berry Counting Crows Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young David Bowie The Decemberists​ Deep Purple Deftones Derek and the Dominoes Dispatch The Doors The Eels Emmylou Harris Eric Clapton The Flaming Lips Flight of the Conchords Flobots Foghat Foo Fighters Frank Zappa George Harrison Gram Parsons Grand Funk Railroad Grateful Dead Green Day Howlin' Wolf Iggy Pop &; the Stooges Iron Butterfly Jackson Browne James Brown Jeff Beck Jeff Healey Jefferson Airplane Jethro Tull The Jimi Hendrix Experience John Fogerty John Lee Hooker John Mayall and the Bluesbreaker​s Johnny Cash The Kinks KISS Leadbelly Led Zeppelin Leftover Salmon Luther Allison Lynyrd Skynynrd Manfred Mann Metallica MIA Mississippi John Hurt Modest Mouse Mott the Hoople Nitty Gritty Dirt Band North Mississippi Allstars O.A.R. Outkast Ozzy Osbourne Paul Butterfield Blues Band Peter Frampton Pink Floyd Presidents of the United States of America Procol Harem Queen The Raconteurs Rainbow Ray Charles Red Hot Chili Peppers REM Rilo Kiley Robert Johnson Robin Trower The Rolling Stones Rooney Rush Snow Patrol Son House The Steve Miller Band Taj Mahal Ten Years After Tenacious D Three Dog Night The Velvet Underground The Who ZZ Top

Comedies- Blazing Saddles, Superbad, Walk Hard, Dr. Strangelove,​ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I actually don't watch television regularly.  I do like South Park, The Office, and The Daily Show.

I love Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea. 

And I like The Giving Tree.  And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  and Of Mice and Men.

"'Manki​nd was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,​ and benevolence,​ were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensiv​e ocean of my business!"​


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