Career changer/martial artist likes to kick it up in the summer
Age: 24Occupation: StudentResidence: Brighton
In 30 words or less, describe what you do all day at work: I get up (and) attend classes. Then at home I catch up on sleep I missed in order to get a parking spot, and (do) homework.
What’s your favorite thing to do outside of school? (Practice) tae kwon do or write.
Where do you get your coffee? Spot.
What’s your adult beverage of choice? Manhattan.
What’s your favorite bar? The Old Toad. I like the leisurely atmosphere and the wider, finer drink selection.
Describe your personal style: Comfortable, relaxed, honest.
What was the last great meal you had? This amazing Delmonico steak at a place called the Little Gem in Wellsville, Allegany County.
What’s the next movie you want to see? Alice in Wonderland.
What do you DVR? My roommate records The Office for us.
What’s the last CD you bought or downloaded? 21st Century Breakdown, by Green Day.
Have you ever met a celebrity? Stan Lee — the guy who created Spider-Man, the X-Men, and a million other major Marvel characters — and I once beat Relient K’s lead singer, Matt Thiessen, in a thumb-wrestling match.
What’s your favorite book? Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.
What’s in your glove compartment? Maps, maps, maps and scads of directions to New Paltz, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Indiana and just about everywhere else.
When’s bedtime? 11 p.m., if life cooperates.
What do you do for exercise? Tae kwon do, mostly, but in the summer time I kick it up; I’ll lift weights more, mountain bike through the woods, and swim a lot.
What one thing — not person or pet — would you save in a fire? My old blue writing binder. It’s stuffed way beyond capacity with hundreds and hundreds of the original manuscripts for a lot of my poems and other writing.
What makes you cringe? People who don’t turn right on red and the general population’s ignorance of adverbs.
If you could have dinner with any historical figure, living or dead, who would it be? Bruce Lee. Here’s a guy who used every part of what he was — a martial artist, a philosopher, an actor — to advance the other parts. There’s so much anyone could learn from that, and it’d be so neat to see what the man behind the mystique was really like.
If you could relive one moment, what would it be? The day I got my black belt, our grandmaster called me in front of everyone as an example of heart and fervor. That will always be one of my greatest moments.
Where do you see yourself five years from now? Teaching high school English, and writing on the side, either right here in Rochester or in New York City — definitely one of those two.
More on him
Loyd is finishing several undergraduate requirements at Monroe Community College and plans to transfer to the State University of New York at New Paltz or SUNY Brockport.
When he’s not studying, Lloyd spends time writing and traveling, and on Wednesday nights he teaches tae kwon do at Wesleyan.When he’s not studying, John Lloyd spends time writing and traveling, and on Wednesday nights he teaches tae kwon do at Wesleyan.
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