User:Jessrog
From The Peopling of NYC
| Joseph Essrog |
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| Interests |
| Everything |
| Hobbies |
| Songwriting |
| Playing guitar and practicing piano |
| Recording original songs |
| Writing short stories and other creative works |
| Drawing |
| Reading up on cosmology, astrophysics, and general astronomy |
| Musical Influences |
| The Beatles |
| The Who |
| Nearly everything else |
| Current Band's Name |
| Green Citron |
[edit] Joseph in Summary
Joseph has lived in the same house in Brooklyn all his life. He spent his early years "sampling" a number of Yeshiva elementary schools until giving up on Brooklyn and going to school in Staten Island. Despite volunteering to blow up the school when the principal first showed him the chem lab during his entrance interview, Joseph graduated with honors from Jewish Foundation School of Staten Island. He was so fond of his daily commute, that Joseph spent his summers traveling back and forth to a day camp in Far Rockaway, where he worked as an aide in the infirmary. Aside from dispensing band-aids, his main responsibility was to keep the dry-erase board updated with pithy sayings and silly jokes. He went on to attend high school in Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence. He became the editor-in-chief of his high school yearbook. After high school, Joseph spent a year studying and touring in Israel. He studied Talmud in Yeshivat Torat Shraga in Jerusalem.
Being fascinated by nearly everything, Joseph is having trouble picking a major. Among his interests is wordplay, particularly of a British variety, as well as general linguistics and the varieties of accents in the English language. Naturally, he enjoys writing of most creative varieties, such as poetry, stories, and songs.