More random questions for Scotti, tatertor, TwistofFate, and anyone else inclined to answer.
We already know your dream job. What’s your real job?
Name any embarrassing celebrity crushes.
Fill in the blank: The one person who can always make me smile is ______________.
What’s the last CD you listened to? Movie/TV show you watched? Book you read?
What’s your earliest memory?
Incidentally, The Last of the High Kings is one of the two Christina Ricci movies I’ve been meaning to rent. (The other is Buffalo '66.) Sadly, neither my roommate nor I have a VCR and the only public one in the dorm is in our basement, which constantly smells of old wet socks.
1 Real job: Communication Consultant
2 Embarrassing? Um… Posh Spice? Currently I’ve got a huge crush on Emily Dickinson
3 Kathryn: An ex-gf of mine (whose now my best friend)
4 Last CD: Paint the Sky With Stars - Enya. Movie: Shaft the other night (so so). TV Show: Sex and the city. Book: The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
5 I have memories (vague though they be) of dragging around a kanaka knife with my puppy in two while wearing a grass skirt. This was inPapua New Guinea so I must have been 2-4 years old.
Oh, no fair telling us your real job until you share your fantasy job.
Emily Dickinson isn’t embarrassing, save for the whole, you know, being dead part. Posh Spice on the otherhand…
That’s infinitely cooler than my first memory! (I have a vague memory of talking to my mom on the phone while she was at the hospital after the birth of my little sister. I was about two and a half.)
blackclaw one question did you play the original jyhad or vampire?
You think your degree is screwy this isn’t me but i know this hispanic guy that works in the tech center of this school he graduated with his doctorete in palientolgy and is a programer now that’s a weird one.
Name: Katya
Age: 17 as of now.
Birthdate: March 19th
Location: Alabama
Hobbies: Music, writing, acting, dancing, soccer, reading, art, watching movies, the Net, acting silly…
Interests: Psychology (prospective major), theatre (prospective minor), art history, mythology, religion, pop culture, counterculture, mysticism, pharmocology.
Religious preference: Christian, but I’m friends with everyone…
Appearance: Ehhh…5’7", and my weight is NUNYA. Reddish-brown curly hair, eyes that change color…semi-athletic looking.
Dreams: To get a doctorate in Psych, to publish volumes of poetry and short stories and maybe even a novel, to win a Grammy award, to win the Pulitzer Prize…
I’m an intermittant fixture here (sounds like bad plumbing, hmmm?) but a lot of new folks are on board since the last “who are you?” thread…
TVeblen is short for Thorstein Veblen, an eccentric Gilded Age economist who identified conspicuous consumption. Contrary to rumor, I am (1)female and (2) don’t have a beard. The nick is weird, but appropriate even if it was chosen in newbie-hysteria.
I am a librarian by occupation and avocation. Academic background is a BA and MA in Anthropology, i.e. I’m a hopeless generalist and research animal. Lacking taste and patience for academic infighting, I chose the less feral venue of public employment. Translation: a reference librarian who was wrenched from the joy of researching stuff for real people for the doubtful rewards of administration.
Sigh. I’m the director of a mid-sized public library in the midwest. Somehow love of books and research got hijacked into budgets, committees, policies, etc.
External details: female, tall (tall!; 5’11" barefoot); dark hair; dark eyes; reasonably slender.
Internal: deep, abiding love of books; I read because I can’t bear not to. TV and movies are just frills; print is my passion, though SDMB and its denizens have lured me away to an amazing degree.
Otherwise: love animals; hate cant and arguing; Taurus (bull, right? apt, that!); prefer red wine and iced tea (not together); can’t dance (Serendiptity was kind: even my mom called me a giraffe on skates); have met very few people I haven’t liked.
dont really have any celebrity crushes
3.One person who can always make me smile or laugh is Purplebear.
4.last CD: Michelle Tumes (christian singer) Last books I read was the series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Tv show would have to be Touched by an Angel.
earliest memory had to be of when they brought my grandpa out to the ambulance. I was 4 yrs.old. He was dead, but I didnt know it at the time.
Well PB should be back tomorrow and she has alot of catching up to do. Cant wait to talk to you,PB. As you can see we kept the thread going.
Ed, cant wait to talk to you again.Hope you get PC fixed soon. You know where to reach me when you do get it up and running.
We already know your dream job. What’s your real job?
Tech support at a help desk, talking to idiots routinely. Only deal with them when I have to. Like my brother-in-law. His daughter just got a PC (she’s 7, I think she’s already smarter than him). He was told to go to a website - he calls me they got stuck at a logan screen. After 5 minutes, I realize it was a LOG IN screen. I can’t avoid this moron, he’s family Help.
Name any embarrassing celebrity crushes.
Hmm, several unrequited lusts…can’t really have a crush without knowing someone at least a little, right?
Fill in the blank: The one person who can always make me smile is ______________.
Always? I’m still looking for this person…
What’s the last CD you listened to? Movie/TV show you watched? Book you read?
Don’t recall CD. TV? I think Drew Carey. Last book I finished was Clancy’s The Bear and the Dragon. Reading a fantasy novel by Stasheff now.
What’s your earliest memory?
Sitting with grandma watching my mom go out for a while while grandma babysat. Guess I was 3 or 4 and I was waving.
Wy, replaced power supply last night. Looks ok now. I’m back!
My dear Ed, I am so glad to have you back, and hopefully I can be the one that always makes you smile. This sounds like we were apart for awhile, you know what I mean.
We already know your dream job. What’s your real job?
Tech and web support. I fix computers.
Name any embarrassing celebrity crushes.
Not that I know of…
Fill in the blank: The one person who can always make me smile is Tatertot. and Evilbeth, my bitchmaster… where are you?
What’s the last CD you listened to?
the Stone Roses -the Remixes album. absolutely loved it. even though I dont normally listen to Dance music, some of the songs really paid tribute to one of my favourite bands of all time.
Movie/TV show you watched? Movie, Scary Movie. it sucked.
TV show? The Simpsons. I’m addicted.
Book you read? Strange Facination- David Bowie’s biography. Pretty good. very in depth and informative. before that It was Mr. Nice by Howard Marks.
What’s your earliest memory? Waving goodbye to my oldest sister as she went to school. I must have been about 2 years old.
We already know your dream job. What’s your real job?
Um, I don’t know what you’d call it…right now, I’m working on “translating” French porn into Murrikan for export, but I do lots of other little odd jobs for people, too.
Name any embarrassing celebrity crushes.
I’m in love with Lou Reed, I don’t care how ugly he is I want him bad.
Fill in the blank: The one person who can always make me smile is ______________.
Oooh, this one is hard, I’m a smile slut. Of course, TinyTot can always get one out of me, even if he’s in trouble which I hate. And all of my friends, which is why they are my friends. On the board, I’d say Canadian Sue, Globe-Trotter, Coldy, evilbeth and of course Cubby, are the ones guaranteed to say or do something to make me smile.
What’s the last CD you listened to? Movie/TV show you watched? Book you read?
Last CD was the Magnolia soundtrack. I can’t remember the last tv show or movie, must not have been any good. I’m currently readin “The Making of a Chef” which is fascinating…tells all about this writer’s experience at the CIA. Before that I read “Never Finished: A History of American Housework” which was very interesting indeed.
What’s your earliest memory?
Going to the park to feed ducks with my Grandparents on the day my sister was born, I was 17 months old. I can remember how strange it felt to be with these new people since we had just arrived from Korea and I didn’t know them at all…and then, to top it off, I was no longer #1! Oh, the indignity!
Weird, but apparently more common than you realize…my degree is in Biology with an emphasis in Evolutionary Biology and paleontology. I currently work as a programmer/analyst.
Hmm… maybe I should get this chain of coincidence checked out…one of my best O/L friends is a teacher, my best friend in HS did some time as an associate prof., Wy is a teacher…and it apparently runs in the family, so is my sister-in-law…
I never got around to introducing myself originally either, so I guess I might as well do it now…hello all! I don’t have a whole lot of time, so here are some random details about me…
My real name is Sonya, most of my friends and family call me Sony (as in Walkman) which comes from kindergarden when one of the boys decided that Sony Baloney sounded better than Sonya Bologna. Y’all can call me pretty much any thing you feel is appropriate. I just turned 29 a couple of weeks ago, am currently single but am not doing much to cure that condition at the moment. I live in Alameda, CA which is between San Francisco and Oakland. My fantasy job is to be an independently wealthy novelist. Of course I’d have to write something longer than 3 pages to actually get there, so it could take a while. I’m another one of those computer geeks with an unrelated degree, good old brit lit from USC. For my real job I am a software quality engineer. I’ve been lurking a lot, but not posting much because I’ve been testing a browser, but it captures everything I type, and some of this stuff I’m not sure I really want my colleagues to see. I have started posting from home lately, so I should be popping up a little more. I definitely prefer hot chocolate to cold soda, and it’s even better if it’s a rainy night and I’m reading a cheesey murder mystery. I should probably get back to work now. I hope to be chatting more with you all soon.
Posh Spice on the otherhand…
I have started posting from home lately, so I should be popping up a little more. I definitely prefer hot chocolate to cold soda, and it’s even better if it’s a rainy night and I’m reading a cheesey murder mystery. I should probably get back to work now. I hope to be chatting more with you all soon.