You must be really bored if you want to know more about me... Well, pick up that cup of java or that Jolt Cola, take a nice long swig, and keep reading! Just imagine Barbara Walters interviewing me...all except asking me that stoooopid question about "if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" Walter Hopgood? This is your life!
| Full Name | Walter Hayes Hopgood |
| When were you born? | November 12th, 1967. Yes, thank you. No need to let me know, I'm old! |
| Times you rolled your eyes as a kid when someone'd scream, "Walter Payton!" or "Walter Cronkite!" | More than you can imagine. |
| Number of names you received from family members | Two: Walter from father, Hayes from grandfather |
| Residence | Sunnyvale, California |
| Residence type | Manufactured Home in a family community |
| Number of times some dimwhit called your home a "trailer" | Don't get me started! |
| Affiliation | Huh? |
| You know, orientation... | Oh... Heterosexually impaired (yes, I mean gay!) |
| Marital status | Happily attached to one Patrick L. Mathews (Hi Honey!) |
| And for how long? | Nine and a half years years (from February, 1992) |
| Number of biological immediate family members that know and are supportive of the both of you. | Next question, please! Seriously, my mother has really come around, and is now asking questions how Patrick is, etc. When I had my operation in 1998 (tonsillectomy) Patrick and mom talked a couple of time. During my gallbladder operation (1999 -- I had a thing for operations that year!) they talked again, and it was fine! Actually, now all my sisters know now as well. Whatever they want to believe or think is fine with me; it's my life, not theirs.
Honestly, if any of my immediate family knows, they can talk to me. And my cousin, Carolyn McCoy and her daughter Katie and husband know me and Patrick, and they love us both. :) |
| Number of non-biological family members (read REALLY close friends I consider family) that know and are supportive of the both of you | Too numerous to count! |
| Number of animals | You mean pets? Besides Patrick? |
| Yes, number of pets besides Patrick | One: CoCo the cat. For those of you that knew her, Della was my baby. She was an eight year old African Grey Parrot. She was the greatest little thing, but something happenned last fall. She broke her kneck in a fall. I was crushed.... Fluffy the fish died early in 1999 (3/4/99). RIP, Fluffy! *flush* Fluffy2 took over but just died, followed by Fluffy3 just two weeks later. |
| Most embarrasing thing Della the parrot said while the next door neighbor is walking by | She screamed at the top of her little lungs, "You BITCH!" |
| You named a fish "Fluffy?" | I did mention that I'm a loonie, didn't I? |
| Favourite vacation spot | Hands down, Puerto Rico. That sun just DOES something to the men down there. Just look at Ricky Martin -- need I say more? Orlando and the Central American country of Belieze is wonderful, too. |
| SPF factor of the sun tanning lotion taken to trip to Belieze | Eight |
| Appropriate SPF factor of sun tanning lotion for trip to Belieze in May | 6000 or so should do it |
| How many days it took to let anyone touch your skin after burning to a crisp in the Beliezian sun | Six |
| Favourite place not to get skin cancer | Vancouver |
| Number of times you've visited Vancouver | Seven times |
| Number of times you've "accidentally" run into that major babe, David Duchovny while in Vancouver | Six or seven |
| Did he really call out your name from across a field to seek you out? | Yes, he did. The Assistant Director told him I was there. (see The Duchovniks Page if you don't understand why) |
| And what did you say to David when he came up and put his arm around you? | I believe my words were, "Uuhhh.. baduuuu... uuuhhh..." and some drooling was involved. |
| What is this I hear that you got in on the set of the X-Files? | Yep! Rebecca Toolan is a friend of ours and also happens to play Mrs. Mulder on the X-Files. She took Patrick and I on the set for one of the last X-Files shot in Vancouver. Then David invited the entire group of us on the set the next day. |
| Bitch! | Well, yes I am, thank you. :) |
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Other actors or actresses you've drooled on while meeting |
Well, there's Mitch Pileggi and Nick Lea. Mitch has one of the nicest butts ever seen in a pair of Wranglers, and Nick has one of the tastiest chests that I've ever had the pleasure of bumping into(literally). I did get somewhat close to Richard Burgi and Garett Maggart to almost drool on 'em, but didn't.They're the cuties from the series "The Sentinel". |
| What do you do in your spare time, besides drool on squidgie men? | Run "Squidge.ORG", which is a linux server in my home running mailing lists. That and avoid working on the homepages for me and the Duchovniks by spending copious amounts of time on irc and setting up my mom's webstore. |
| Where do you work? | I started at Concentric Networks in March, 1999 and have been having a great time. It's been hella busy, but I'm learning lots! I started out as a Clarify Administrator, but I've been doing project planning, system analysis and database design and having a great time. I work with a GREAT team. Hey Terri, Binh, Priya, Nona, and Meenu! Of course, I'm always up to talking about new opportunities, so check out my resume if you're a hiring manager! |
| What projects do you have going | I'm going to teach myself Java if it kills me... I have this idea for a killer app, and I'm not telling unless you're a venture capitalist! |
| Favourite quote from a movie | "Can you hammer a ten inch spike through a board with your penis? A girls gotta have her standards..." (The Professor's daughter in "Real Genius") |
| Current new toy | My new Sony video camera. I love it -- it's great! I loaned my digital camera to what I thought was a friend last year, and he's never given it back AND he's moved and left no address. I'm not too happy about it. *grrr* |
| Who is your goddess | That would be Beverly of course! |
Did you get this far? And you're still awake? Wow... I'm suprised!
Let's see, what else can I tell you... I was born in Alabama, raised until age 11 in Savannah Georgia, when my mother decided to pull up and move to Alaska. Living in Alaska is wonderful, with the beautiful wilderness literally right outside your back door. My non-psychotic sister (there are actually two non-psychotic sisters and one psychotic sister) got me a job at Providence Hospital, where I became a Pharmacy Technician. No, it's not like a retail pharmacy. It was dealing with patients, compounding drugs, filling medication carts, and all in all a wonderful learning experience. Go ahead, ask me about a drug! Six and a half years of working in a pharmacy really educated me about drugs very well. While talking to my surgeon the other day, she quizzed me a little bit and I passed with flying colors. Anyway, I was on my way to a college degree in either Secondary Education (yes, teaching little high school punks about history, government, and political science) or Pharmacy, but got distracted when the software company the pharmacy's computers ran on asked me to take a job with them.
Can we say "California bound?" I knew that you could! Knowing fully well that Mediware was based in Scotts Valley, just seventy miles South of San Francisco, I took the job. Of course San Francisco has many valuable natural resources (read: MEN!) and since I wasn't educated in the way of men, I took it upon myself to learn. I "came out of the closet" on Labor Day, 1991, and haven't looked back. After stumbling around with a few men, I met up with the love of my life.
Patrick and I met on a blind date on St. Valentines Day back in 1992. It was love at first sight. Thank the gods and goddesses that it was a long weekend, because we needed it to recover! I went over, and was late because I lived in Santa Cruz, and Patrick lived in Sunnyvale and it was raining pretty bad. He opened the door, and I presented two yellow roses: one for St. Valenties Day of course, and one for his birthday, which was the day before. We sat and had a nice chat, and he showed me around his apartment. On the tour, I looked up into his beautiful pools of green that are his eyes (he's 6'2" and I'm 5'9"), he looked down into my eyes, and we just had to kiss.You know how people talk about *sparks* when you kiss? That's what it was like. After that point (and a short dinner on Castro Street in Mountain View, the next 'burb North of Sunnyvale) you had to hose me down if you wanted my attention away from Patrick. And it's still like that today, over seven years later.
Lots of my time is spent working on the server I'm running, Squidge.ORG, which is a mailing list server for many, many lists, most of which are fan type. There's the Duchovniks and the DDTeens (dedicated to following the career of David Duchovny), the Paul Gross Estrogen Brigade and the Kyle Chandler Estrogen Brigade, run by my cyber-sisters Jazz and Steff. Then there's Bill Pullman Anonymous, lists for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and lots others you can check out. Besides server administration and wreaking havoc on the Duchovniks, I maintain our inhouse network (we have twenty systems alltogether) making sure the Mac talks to the UNIX box and the OS/2 box talks to Windows95 and Windows NT boxes and everyone behaves as they should. Hey, we're two young, technical professionals with no dependents. We're either buying geek computer stuff, or I'm stashing money away in stocks and mutual funds.
Tha's just about it... If you're still awake and still have a burning desire to know something, email me!
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