Found in the crowd
Lee Jones
Linda Sjostrom
Issue date: 9/23/08 Section: Voices
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Lee Jones: I am.
O: OK, what year?
LJ: I'm a graduate student.
O: OK, cool. What's it like to be a graduate student at Hamline?
LJ: Difficult to balance work and school.
O: Why's that?
LJ: Just 'cause I work 40, 50 hours a week.
O: Where do you work?
LJ: I work at a whole foods market grocery store.
O: What's your job there?
LJ: I am a cheese monger.
O: Cheese monger--what do you do for that?
LJ: I wrap cheese, cut cheese, sell cheese ... olives, chocolate, all that stuff.
O: Do you ever get sick of that stuff? Like, do you go home and find you can't eat it afterward?
LJ: No. Actually, I brought some cheese with me here if you want some.
O: I'm good. Do you have some certain quirks at all?
LJ: Do I have quirks? Yes, I'm lazy. I'm trying to overcome it.
O: Nice; how's that going?
LJ: I'm getting there.
O: What are you working on?
LJ: We are working on multivariable calculus. It's an assignment that's due this week.
O: Is that for your major? Your degree?
LJ: I'm gonna be a high school chemistry teacher and so I'm taking some of the content classes I never got. I'm in the MIT program here at Hamline.
O: Do your tattoos mean anything? I see you have a lot.
LJ: Most of them I have because I enjoy them and I just liked them at the time. This one here actually means 'husband.' If you match it with my wife's it means--together it means--'betrothed,' or 'married couple.'
O: Which one hurt the most out of all of them?
LJ: Um, the ones on my legs.
O: What's on the legs?
LJ: Flames and then blue flames over here. Yeah, those hurt the most.
O: How old were you when you got the first one?
LJ: Eighteen.
O: Does your wife go to Hamline, too?
LJ: She's taking some continuing education courses but she's already a teacher. She's taking some classes in the Urban Education program.
O: If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
LJ: Um ... That's hard. It would be to have unending ... comprehensive knowledge of calculus. Seriously. Not kidding. That would be it. You could do a lot with that.
O: Is there anything you think Hamline should know about Lee Jones?
LJ: That's a tough question. I'm just a guy. Just a dude. That's one of my expressions. So there you have it.
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