Kevin Shaffer:  

Life I currently own a house in Las Vegas. I have been in Vegas since the summer of 2002. It is a great place to be for a single guy in his twenties. Even though I have not lived it up like many others, I still enjoy it. With the exception of going to play poker, there is very little reason for me to go to the Strip and visit the casinos. For the last two years I have been living with my brothers, but Dave just moved to Texas a couple of months ago. Since I am no longer a full-time teacher, I only work 18 hours a week. So basically I am a slacker at this point in my life. However, my first three years out here I worked hard. I was a full-time teacher dealing with 45 students in a class (a little bigger than classes in Wayland). I also taught up to four nights a week at UNLV, tutored students for proficiency exams, worked on TV doing math problems, worked as a security guard for a while, and taught summer school. Also during this time I completed one full Master's degree and nearly completed a second Master's degree. Now that I am a slacker, I spend most of my time meeting up with friends or playing poker. And I have been playing a lot of poker. Vegas is getting a little old though. I am currently making plans to move up to Portland sometime within the next year. College I spent four rather uneventful years at Geneseo. My freshman year I lived in the dorms and managed to go through three roommates. My first roommate was 28 years old at the time and was a religous fanatic, but he left when he got an RA position. My second roommate got kicked out after receiving a 0 GPA becaus...Expand for more