SPENCER DAVID DURHAM

Caucasian Male

1. What is your physical description?

Slightly overweight, but tries to hide it, long brown hair, pretty sick beard.

2. What is your current occupation, and how did you acquire the skills needed for it?

High school PE teacher. Studied at LSU on football scholarship, got hurt junior year and managed to get a teaching degree in physical education as a 5th year senior.

3. Outside of work, what hobby, interest, or sport occupies most of your time, and why do you find it interesting?

Avid woodworker, after losing sight of a professional sports career began whittling to pass the time, over the years this turned into a part time gig making furniture and sculptures. This passion basically came out of no wear and its mainly just an activity to make the days seem shorter.

4. What motivates you to get out of bed and keep going each day?

Main motivation is to coach kids that have high hopes of making it big playing sports, especially football. Does what he can to help others, but it's obvious he wants to be part of someone who is going to make a name for themselves.

5. What is your greatest fear, and how do you react when you face it?

Despite working with athletes has an irrational fear of blood, needles, and anything medical. When injured in college Spencer had every possible surgery done to repair his compound fracture on his femur. All the procedures and time in hospitals, along with the shattering of his dreams, left him with an intense fear.

6. When people talk about you behind your back, and they do, what are they saying?

Mostly people talk about how Spencer had it all going for him and how it was obvious that he put all his eggs in one basket banking on a pro sports career. Some comment on the cliche of the washed-up sports star turned PE teacher, others comment on how he's really started letting himself go.

7. Everyone indulges in something from cheating on a diet to something dangerous; what is your guilty pleasure or vice?

After his injury and before getting into woodworking Spencer spent a great deal of time dealing with some very dodgy gambling. At first betting on sports games, thinking his experience would give him the edge and then later betting on just about anything that someone would take a wager for. He's tried multiple times to quit, but it's one thing that always comes back into his life.

8. What's the best part of being in the wilderness for a week with no modern amenities with only a handful of people around?

No issues with the gambling problems, abundance of resources and time to work on woodworking, no one around to ask nosey questions about how he is doing.

9. Why won't your family acknowledge your existence?

Family blames Spencer for his injury, felt he was responsible (Spencer was hit walking... ok stumbling, home from a party by a small truck that jumped the curb). After the news hit that he was out for good they blamed him and since their hopes rested on his success they never could stand to be around him again.

10. Your father has pushed you to attain the sort of athletic glories he was unable to in his youth. What sport is your specialty?

Football. Father was a decent athlete, but due to circumstances had to work and couldn't play in college and had to help with a family cleaning business. It was his father's mission in life to see that his son could get what he never could. Things weren't always perfect between the two but Spencer took the coaching that his father gave him and wanted to make him proud.