Mark Atkinson

Born: Eugene, Oregon September 1st, 1983

Favorite Food: Pizza

Coolest Place Ever Traveled: Transylvania

Most relaxing place Traveled: Hawaii

Animals: Cat named Katherine who our family has had since I was born.

Car: 1994 Toyota 4Runner it's pretty cool 

Spare Time: In my spare time there are a couple of things that I enjoy doing. These include mountain biking, going camping with friends, exercising, going to the Fire Department, watching movies, going on road trips, what else hum...........pretty much anything outdoors, cliff jumping, hiking, going down natural water slides, also enjoy going 4wheelin with friends in the many muddy spots around Corvallis and just hanging out.

Jobs: Life Guarding with Osborne Aquatic over the summer   , and working for Foundation Engineering.

Cooking: I enjoy making things in the kitchen when I really have nothing else to do, I make brownies a lot because they are really good and easy to make.

Basic Facts: 6'3, 155lbs, brown hair, hazel eyes,

Parents: My dad is a psychologist  and my mom is a teacher in Albany.

Latest News (the cool weekly or semi weekly update): Thursday, January 24, 2002: Well today is the second to last day of the semester we only have A and C block today each for two hours and then we get out of school at about 12:10pm. Tomorrow is B and D block. This morning I had ceramics....yea pretty tough final in there....nope. So basically no finals for me this semester. Ok, what else has happened this week. Well doctor said last Friday that I could start wrestling, so Tuesday was my first day back to practice....and it was horrible, the knee didn't hurt to much but I was sooooooo out of shape. Yesterday was better though. Haks and I DJed the dance last Friday night which was pretty lame, hardly any people showed up. We won our wrestling meet on Thursday it was like 56-19. Last weekend was fun, we hosted the Benton County Championships on Saturday, on Sunday I went to the fire station for most of the day, having our only call happen right when we were sitting down for dinner. After the fire station, which was Sunday night, went to a "get together" which was allot of fun. Monday just hung out and relaxed. And then Tuesday it was back to school. This week has gone by super fast though, with only two days of full school and then two half days, it's nice. We also have Monday and Tuesday of next week off. Well that's if for now probably won't write anything in here for a while........maybe even never, because this is the last day of class. So take it easy.....-Later.

    Thursday, January 17 2002: Well this week is almost over, which is very good. Not a whole lot of exciting things have happened to me this week, been exercising every day to try to get me back to some what of a wrestling shape in case the doctor says I can wrestle. I go to the doctor today to see how the knee is doing. This weekend Corvallis High School is hosting the Benton County Championships, which is where all the different high schools in Benton County come and wrestle in a big tournament on Saturday. Tonight we wrestle South Salem, so I will go up and support them after I get back from Eugene. Oh, also this weekend is a three day weekend, we get Monday off for MLK day. I am probably going to go work at the Fire Department on Sunday so hopefully it will be busy. What else is going on........humm....might also go shopping this weekend with friends...well see though. Last weekend, went up to Beaver Creek and went 4wheelin it was fun...we almost got caught by the sheriff which wouldn't have been good. A friend and I are DJing an after game dance tomorrow night which hopefully allot of people will come to it should be tight. Well that's about it for now. Hope you all have a fun and safe weekend. -Peace

Today is the first day back to school after our winter break, it's Monday, January 7. My winter break was pretty relaxing, I watched a ton of movies....a couple that were worth seeing were, Ocean's Eleven, the Score with Robert Dinero was pretty good. Ok, what else happen over the break, my sister and her family came up for about 5 days right around Christmas, but since my knee has been hurt I really haven't been able to do all the stuff I have wanted like going skiing...in case you didn't know, I tore my meniscus and strained my MCL in wrestling practice the Tuesday before winter break. This last weekend was the coolest weekend over the entire break, hung out with some cool people, a friend and I finished putting a CB in my truck....it look's totally professional. Watched my team wrestle at the Central Tournament, and some other stuff but it was a lot of fun.

Ok, for you more visual people or if you don't know the knee so well this is a picture.............wow. So if you look closely you can see the medial meniscus. To the right of that is the MCL.