Meet the Cast Monday #25: Georgia Boy

Today I'm introducing another one of my friends from my summer in San Francisco....Georgia Boy. He grew up....you got it....in Georgia and went to college at UGA (a fact that I thoroughly enjoyed when a certain football game rolled around last year!). You'll hear the rest in his answers below. He was totally the most popular person in our summer class--if there would have been a homecoming king for the summer, Georgia Boy would have been the winner. He's one of those people who is brilliant and super sweet and you are never quite sure what they are going to say next. Trying to keep up with his smartass remarks definately kept me on my toes all summer!

Here he is...Meet Georgia Boy!

How does a boy from Georgia end up in San Francisco?

I visited SF with my dad when I was 14 or so and really liked the area. Then my girlfriend (now wife) moved out here to go to Berkeley for law school. That made my focus my post-graduation job search on the bay area, and when I got a job I liked I made the move.

Tell us how you met your wife. (And be honest....can she bench press more than you?)

Ha! No, but that's about the only physical feat I have her beaten in. She can probably squat more than me (which honestly isn't saying much), and her running pace puts mine to shame. I hope our kids get her genes. {Just so no one thinks Georgia Boy is totally unathletic and kind of a wimp, his wife was an All-American pole vaulter at the University of Georgia.}
We met in a linguistics class our freshman year of college. We were friends from then on but didn't start dating until spring of senior year.

Please introduce everyone to Crouton.

Everyone, meet the fiercest 6 pounder out there. I attached his picture to this email. This is him right after killing a wildebeast.

Tell us about your post-bar trip!

We went to Egypt, Oktoberfest, and Tuscany. Needless to say it was fantastic. It was especially cool to see Egypt before the revolution started. Watching all the changes in the past two months has been fascinating.
The best part was the Tuscan countryside. Great pizza and terrific wine.

What is your favorite part of living in San Francisco?

Hmm. The progressive social and political climate.

What was the best part of being a summer associate in 2008?

We had a nucleus of people with great senses of humor. That made it fun. And those were the glory days of lavish social outings. The trip to the Giants game was great, getting coffee and fro-yo everyday was awesome, and the other social events rocked too. {That Giants game is where I feel like my friendship with Georgia Boy solidified. I won a bet on the way over by knowing more sports related trivia than him (between his wife and me, he really does come off sounding like a wimp in this blog....) and he owed me a hot dog. Dude goes in the first inning to buy it, but ended up hanging out in the beer garden with some other people for literally 2 hours. Then showed up to pay me with a cold hot dog. No sir...he had to go back and get me a new one. This was the scene afterwards.}
If you weren't living in SF, where would you be?

Atlanta with the fam.

What was your most embarassing moment?

In preschool I dropped my glove in the toilet and peed on it. Then stood there and cried until the teacher found me. Whoomp - there it is. {Wow....I just never know what to expect in response to these MTCM questions!}

What is one (or more) item(s) on your bucket list?

A house somewhere quiet in Montana.

Expect to hear more about Georgia Boy in the coming weeks....because he and his wife are meeting up with us one night while we're in San Francisco for some serious karaoke action! Videos to follow?? Maybe so....