Who's Darin? Before packing up for college, Darin lived in Orange County, Calif, a self-centered world of gilded shopping centers (AND lot of great opportunity for which he is still grateful). There Darin poured himself into his schoolwork and lived with his father, a retired social worker who had worked over 30 years for Los Angeles County. Now he's an undergraduate at Stanford and here are some of his links:
Halloween '99, as boy wonder.
During that first summer there I took classes worked as an intern [CLICK HERE FOR OUR GROUP PIC] at the Office of
Second summer in Berkeley I lived in a frat house and commuted every day to the City, where I worked for a leading affinity-oriented Internet media company.
Before you do anything else, please visit the web page of the incomparable Mr. Timothy Yuen. And... that amazingly energetic star of stage and film: UCLA's own
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Last year I attempted to learn swing, in addition to other dances, but the class was way too early in the morning and I don't remember anything. Still want to learn, though! Here I am (in front of the Yosemite picture) with my dormmates before the freshman formal dance.
These past two summers I made my home at Cal Berkeley, my school's amazing archrival. Aside from the aggressive homeless people, the nonexistent parking, the sloping inclines wherever you walk (any Berkeley student has a butt you could bounce a rock off of) and the fact that all the sidewalks smell like human excrement, I found Berkeley a very wonderful place. Truly, I do love Berkeley, or else I wouldn't have lived there two summers in a row. I'd sometimes ponder transferring... until I'd quickly come to my senses!
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein in SF. When I wasn't working or studying, I spent A LOT of time exploring romantic San Francisco. One weekend I was asked to lead a group of 45 Berkeley summer students into enemy territory - on a tour of Stanford - many of us wearing blue and gold, traveling in Cal's "Go Bears!" bus -- a lot of fun! (BUT I AM STILL AND ALWAYS 100% GUNG HO STANFORD, CARDINAL TO THE CORE)
It was a summer of adventure. :-)
San Francisco Arts Monthly: site all about arts and cultural events in this great city!
Check out The Orange County Register ; Awhile back, through my little teen movie reviews in the paper's Show section, I exerted my power (ha!) on the motion picture box office. Looking back I see that some of my reviews were pretty harsh and let me just say that I had no problem assigning to movies the lowest "Bomb" rating; in fact, I think my "refined" film taste allowed me to give only one glowing review - to Scream 2. :-P
Orange County Fifth District Supervisor Tom Wilson, at whose office I was an intern. Dressing up back then to go to his office was pretty cool, and now I feel kind of loyal to that place.
In high school I had this little obsession with CNN's Inside Politics (especially with the theme music) and anchor Judy Woodruff. Were it not for that inspirational news music, I don't know if I'd have become as interested in politics. 
Check out the always fresh content (including some political stuff) at Salon Magazine.
The best dog ever to set paw on earth.
Watch silly video of me saying hi from a few years ago: darinshivid.mpg
Cliff Curry!
