About Jon Carnes

My name is Jon Carnes, and I live about a mile from lake Calhoun in Uptown, specifically Carag, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. My room looks away from the lake, Eastward, directly at the parking lot of an apartment building across the alley. When I approach my room from the hall, it looks like all there is outside is snow, because of the limited viewpoint. There is a garage outside my window, and it's roof is the only thing I can normally see on the way to my room. My room has mostly bare hardwood floors, light decoration, an old wooden desk, a very large and comfortable bed, piles of clothes against the north windows, 3 seperate tall shelf-like receptacles for the keeping of clothes, a bookshelf and yellow-orange walls. I currently keep a space heater in my room, but never when I'm asleep or away from the room.

I'm 22 years old, a student at the University of Minnesota. I'm studying linguistics, and will be graduating in the fall of 2008. I have a liberal bend politically, and am generally open-minded, forgiving and pleasant. I believe in individual decision making, human potential for good and ill, and the importance of enjoyment.

I love my girlfriend of almost a year, Vanessa. We seem to have more in common than I would have ever expected. We enjoy watching things together, playing with her dog, dancing, sleeping, eating, biking, etc. One of our habits is to go to Sawatdee in uptown.

In addition to being a student, I am working 2 jobs, at least until friday. At my first job I come from the depths below the dental school and fix assorted things, I also deal with alot of hazardous materials, furniture moving and the like. My other job, which is nearing it's end, is Survey Interviewing for the School of public health at the U of M. I call people on the phone, convince them to talk to me and then ask them about 9 minutes worth of questions about their healthcare, insurance and such. I don't care for my second job all too much anymore, in fact I utterly hate it, now that it seems all of my work friends have quit.

In the past I've worked at Taco Bell, Falk's Pharmacy, Jubilee foods and Progressive action network. The first thing I learned from these old jobs is that I mostly hate dealing with food, and I can think the most terrible things without saying a thing.

My semester at school is just about over, I only need to write another paper. I've had to write quite a bit this semester, many papers about various things, some of which I don't remember writing. I will have to expand a paper from this semester next year. I studied Hindi this time, but in the past have studied Arabic, French, German and Spanish. I am the best with German. Spanish I'm terrible at.

I really enjoy Thai, Indian, Ethiopian and Vietnamese food. So, I often end up at Sawatdee, or whatever they are calling it now. My favorite dish is Spinach Rama Thai with Mockduck and 4 spiciness. I enjoy drinking dark beer with spicy food, as it acts as a sponge to moderate the spice.

I've seen the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, been all over Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas, seen most of the American Southeast, been to New York, briefly to Massachusets, Seattle, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.

I have a strong desire to visit Mexico, Vancouver, Egypt, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.

My favorite song is Naive Melody by the Talking Heads. My favorite bands are Xiu Xiu, Radiohead, Interpol, The Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, Sex Pistols, TV on the Radio, Tom Waits , Johnny Cash, etc.

As for books, television and movies, I'm very into Candide, Dexter, Bret Easton Ellis, Lovecraft, etc.

Song of the Day "Naive Melody"-Talking Heads