Hee! Am I the only one who read this as:
Damn, girl, you get around!
I’ve only been in Oregon since May and guess I’ve just been lucky so far. My boss’ house (I work for her at her home) is situated just south of a small patch of wetlands so I guess it’s inevitable I’ll eventually get bitten but am not looking forward to it.
Real OSU? Is that the one in Eugene or Corvalis? I’m still not the best at Oregonian geography although I am trying to learn. Thankfully, the state’s pretty sparsely populated so it won’t be as difficult as learning, say, Californian geography. I might get it down one day.
Hee!
Frankly, I wouldn’t mind belonging to Sara Schulman.
Or Anne Rice, for that matter.
:o
Hey, I’m a 20 year old sophomore at UMASS Lowell, majoring in English (I want to teach high school someday). As stated before, I live with gfloyd on campus.
I went to high school at a fairly small regional public high school, where everyone knew each other, and for the most part, had since at least the 6th grade. For me, high school wasn’t that horrible, I had a small group of friends that I stayed very close to throughout my childhood.
One of my true passions is music. As my roommate pointed out, I’m a closet geek (ok, ok I D&D), but more than anything, I’m a marching band/drum corps geek. I’ve been doing marching band since I was in the 7th grade (flute for 2 years, mellophone for 2 years, drum corps for 2 years) and into college (I play mello here). I also march with the East Coast Jazz, a division II drum and bugle corps (DCI) from Malden, MA (where I also play mello)–I just started last year, but I plan to march until I age out, as I have two more seasons left in me. I was going to be a music major, but then I had a change of heart when I sucked my first time auditioning for college, and then realized I would be able to choose, basically, no classes that weren’t music, and I do enjoy other things.
Also, I am very much an English nerd. I love grammar (as pathetic as that is), and I love words. I know, I’m bizarre.
For the first time, I’m in love. All through high school, I never had a significant other of any kind, but last year I started dating someone gfloyd had gone to high school with, and we’re still together (tonight is exactly one year from the first time we kissed). I probably shouldn’t think that this is the one, as I’ve never been with anyone else, but it feels so right . I don’t know.
Anyway, I’m off. It’s been nice pouring out all of me for you to see.
Laurel
Western Essex County … you know, where all the snooty rich people who think I shouldn’t wear ripped jeans to the mall live. 
Okay, I’ve been lured.
I’m 26, Male, and a college graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. Heterosexual. Christian, though pretty non-religious. Moderate politically, with Libertarian leanings.
I live in lovely-but-boring northern West Virginia. I was born and raised in Southern West Virginia, but oddly, I possess almost no trace of the typical accent. I chalk that up to many hours of TV-watching as a child.
Personality-wise, I have to quote something here that’s appropriate:
Yep, I’m all over that. I’m an optimist to the core - when it comes to things depending on random chance, or the action of a mass of people - but very cynical when it comes to individuals. I’m sarcastic. I find humor in almost everything. I tend to be a quiet person around people I don’t know well - content to observe and occasionally comment now and then - but as I become more comfortable I become much more outgoing, and pretty silly. I have a penchant for puns, as might be surmised from my nom-de-board.
I’m pretty stubborn - once I’ve made up my mind about something (which can take a while, as I’m a thinker) I tend to stick to it. I think that’s because I hate the decision-making process so much that I don’t like going through it a second time. I value truth, justice, fairness, loyalty, and money. Lots of money.
My hobbies include almost the entire geek spectrum. I’m a comic book collector, movie-watcher, trivia-spouter, roleplaying gamer, and some people call me a space cowboy. Oh, I also like non-sequiturs. I play video games, I write (occasionally) and draw (even more rarely). I sometimes program for fun. I have what I regard as unusual physical flexibility for my body-type, thanks to a gymnastics class at an early age. I’m a pretty spiffy mimic, and will commonly imitate dialects, accents, video game noises, cartoons, while barely realizing that I’m doing it.
As for a picture, I think I’ve put it in at least one of the picture threads of the last year.
I enjoy answering questions about myself, so feel free to ask. I also enjoy asking questions about other people - I nearly went into psychology because I enjoy “figuring people out”.
I’m a 25 yr old white guy from Kentucky. I’ve been married for almost 4 yrs to the most wonderful woman of the planet.(Quite possibly the solar system for all I know.) I have 2 wonderful daughters aged 3 and 5 and another on the way. I never went to college and still don’t know if I want to. I smoke Marlboro reds and drink MGD, although not all the time , maybe once or twice a month if that. My spelling is horrible as if you haven’t noticed. I’m of English/Welsh/Irish/German/Cherokee descent. Ummmm…My ansestors were Baptist ministers from the time they crossed the Atlantic (1700’s)untill my Great-Grandfather. We’re still Baptist. My family has almost always lived in this area. I can travel less than 10 miles and find at least 5 generations worth of graves. Oh…and up untill me…they were always republicans…Anything else I think of I’ll add later.
And some call you the gangster of love?
Personally, I think Maurice fits him better.
I’ll try this. Should be worth a giggle.
I’m 27, and smart enough to where I seriously had to think about how old I am :smack: Course, after 21 there isn’t really a year worth noting. Engaged to an incredibly wonderful-and thankfully very patient-woman (doper name Alias) with a 7 year old daughter. We have one dog, two cats, and my daughter has a pet snake. She’s a pretty cool kid.
My hobbies include any sort of science reading I can get my hands on with the exception of physics, which makes my brain stop. I really enjoy psychology, biology, paleantology, anthropology, and someday hope to make it through “The Structure of Evolutionary History” by Stephen J. Gould. I love video games entirely too much. I also play street hockey and am obsessed with hockey in general. I’ve racked up a few injuries as a result, but it works out.** Alias ** loves scars. 
I like to cook though, particularly baking which Alias is not so crazy about ( I can’t help that I make good cookies and scones 
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I tend to be a fast learner. I’m pretty observant. I’m told that I’m very funny. All I know is that I tend to entertain some and perplex others. I’m a bit of a crank, fond of yelling at the television or radio. I used to just yell at hockey games, but with the NHL on a possibly log vacation I’ve found myself yelling at the presidential debates, news, and sitcoms (Damn it! Be funny!!).
Right now I’m not currently in school but plan to return soon because my current job (deli clerk at a grocery store) has me bored to tears. As for what I’ll study, I have no idea. I like too many things right now to narrow it down. If I get bored enough, I think I’ll just go into politics. :rolleyes:
Almost forgot. I’m white, heterosexual, and a scorpio (snake in eastern). I went through a phase where I kind of believed it, but not anymore. I’m an agnostic because the only answers religion seems to have is “God” and I need more than that.
I hope that’s everything. I have to go finish cooking dinner now.
Well, I am a joker…
Please, speak of the pompatus of love! (Specifically, I wish you’d define that for me.) 
Evidence suggests it’s a nonsense word, if I recall correctly, borrowed from an older song where it was a nonsense word. I think Cecil’s covered it.
Ehh, why not?
I’m a 29-year-old married female who will be working as an Office Manager/Marketing Manager for an industry website as of Monday. I’m happily married to my dream guy, and we’re pathetically attached to our cats. No kids yet, but probably in the next two years. I’m a writer, as well, and hope to have my first young adult novel published in the next two years - it depends on what the current agent I’m working with says. I live in Ohio, although I hate it, being a transplanted New Yorker (Brooklyn) and a lifetime Virginian before that. We’re looking into buying a house so that I can stay in this state I hate (good logic there, eh?) and live happily ever after.
I think I’m mostly smart, somewhat funny, and I take things too personally sometimes. I’m working on that. Now, if someone would work on my family.
E.
Male, hetero, 48 years old, 6’3", 175 lbs. Divorced for about 5 years. Two kids, one large dog. Mixed bag in the racial department; primarily Scots/German with some Native American (at least, that’s the rumor).
I’ve been around these boards for a looooong time, and I was reading Cecil’s books for even longer. I don’t post much, 'cause I figure if you have nothing to say, you should just shut up. Generally, by the tiime I format an appropriately witty or succinct response, someone else has beaten me to it.
Spiritually, I consider myself a Rastafarian Buddhist Agnostic. Or something. When I was a teenager, I accepted Jesus as my personal savior…but I got over it.
I live in the far southwestern Chicago suburbs but I’m really from a tiny little town in central Illinois. Lived in Cleveland for 5 years.
I have a BA in Fine Arts/Graphic Design and an MBA in Human Resources and MIS. I’m currently the network administrator/phone guy for an international manufacturing company. It’s a job, not a career. Yeah, I’m a computer geek but I look at more like being a plumber. Stuff breaks, I get to fix it. I’m real good at fixing things.
I’m a hell of a good cook and a hell of a bad musician, although I accumulate stringed instruments like a magnet attracts metal filings. I read escapist literature and I think most self-help books are crap. I’m a big fan of old movies, particularly witty comedies and film noir classics. I’m sarcastic, caustic, and a confirmed pessimist, but I’m not a jerk about it. I also tend to be quiet, reticent, self-sufficient, and I can be borderline reclusive.
I’m also a biker. That is, a motorcyclist…not the leather-clad one-percenter type; the responsible, proper-safety-gear type.
Female, 35 years old, hetero, single, 5’10", (mumblemumble) lbs, of Scottish, English, German, French descent. I live in Minnesota with my 10 year old daughter and two cats.
I have worked for the largest county in Minnesota for a total of 7 1/2 years (I had a 6 month leave of my senses and worked for another county) as a child support officer. In an ornate ceremony involving marmots, Ouzo, and a Charleston Bar, I have officially consigned my soul to said county for the duration of my life. I enjoy my job 80% of the time.
I attended Augsburg College here in Minneapolis, achieving bachelor’s degrees in English and Speech/Communication/Theater, with minors in Art History and Religion. Unfortunately, I took a “break” just prior to starting student teaching, ended up preggers, and never finished. Upon growing up a tad, I now know it would’ve been a mistake to have become a secondary ed teacher–I don’t have the strength.
My family is very small, but very close-knit. I have one older sister, two nephews, a niece-in-law, one soon-to-be-niece-in-law, and two grandnieces. We all live within 10 miles of my parents, who we all see at least once a week.
I have played the flute for over 26 years now. In high school and college I played in various youth orchestras and symphonies. Now I play at church (where I am not a believer, I go for the community and the music) and professionally here and there.
I also am a fabulous baker, if I may say so myself. Cheesecakes and cookies are my milieu. Can’t make an angel food cake to save my life.
I’m an avid reader, but of nothing that makes me think. I listen to all kinds of music- even rap thanks to LilMiss, but prefer metal and blues. Adore screwball comedies, Alfred Hitchcock, and offbeat movies.
Causes I’m involved in? Adoption rights, searching for a cure for polycystic kidney disease, and keeping the arts in schools.