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grammargirlFive Things You May Not Know About my Time in School are:
1. My middle school experience lasted five years. Don't ask.
2. I went to tiny private schools until college.
3. In 12th grade, I won a $5,000 poetry scholarship. I haven't written any poetry I'm proud of since.
4. My favorite high school English teacher, who I had for all four years, is the reason I was accepted to U of M.
5. I was told that I would graduate with honors, but when I received my diploma in the mail I discovered to my surprise that I'd apparently received High Honors instead. Go figure.
Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:
1. I started babysitting when I was about 12 years old.
2. My first real paycheck, not under-the-table job was working as a library page (i.e., I was one of the kids who reshelved books). I got fired after almost a year for reading on the job.
3. I'm currently working at my third library job. I suspect it won't be my last.
4. I've worked, in no particular order, as a babysitter, library page, assistant teacher, literacy tutor, cafeteria worker, sandwich maker, dishwasher, assistant editor, circulation desk assistant, proofreader, and research assistant.
5. I've had a regular job, with surprisingly few gaps, since I was 16 years old.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:
1. My oldest online friend iscorenrind. I met her through an online teen writers group called the PEN Society in... '95? '96? I think we were both in 8th grade.
2. I met my first online friend in person the summer after 10th grade, and have been doing so ever since. I've never had a bad experience in the transition from OL to RL friend.
3. I've only met an online friend for purely non-platonic reasons once, in April, and it was an unreservedly positive experience.
4. The first time I ever got online was with AOL 2.0. That was back when IMs existed, but buddy lists did not, so if you wanted to talk to someone you had to search individual SNs to see if they were online.
5. IMs have always been a more important communication tool than e-mail to me.
Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:
1. Ann Arbor is at its best in the summer, when probably 75% of the students go the fuck away and leave the rest of us in peace for 4 months. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
2. The Fleming Admin Builsing is riot-proof-- the walls are all slightly sloped so potential rioters can't prop up ladders, and none of the windows belong to the offices they appear from the outside to belong to. Actually, anyone who is/was a U of M student and paid attention at Orientation probably knows this, but it's my favorite random AA factoid.
3. The population of Ann Arbor triples every summer for the weekend of Art Fair.
4. Ann Arbor's a great place to go to college and I bet it would be a great place to raise children, but I have no interest in living here after this year.
5. This town is small and insular enough that the usual six degrees of separation gets reduced to about two.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:
1. I'm usually really shy and reserved around strangers, but get me around friends and I can act like a drunk 13 year old at the drop of a hat.
2. I've had periodic, recurring low-grade depression since early middle school.
3. Big groups of people make me really uncomfortable. Small, intimate groups of good friends are much more enjoyable.
4. I find intelligence sexier than pretty much any other characteristic.
5. I've become close friends with more friends who get me this summer than at any other time in my life.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life are:
1. From the time my parents divorced when I was 20 months old, I lived in a single parent/only child home.
2. My family is tiny-- I never knew my father's family, and my mom's family consists of just her two siblings and their spouses, two cousins, and until Thanksgiving my grandmother.
3. My mom and I haven't been big Christmas/birthday celebrators since I was a kid.
4. I get along with my mom about eleventy billion times better when we don't live together.
5. My mom takes a very hands-off approach to her role as a parent now that I've grown up--She trusts me to be capable of making good decisions and taking care of myself. For the most part it's good and I appreciate her trust in me, but it gets frustrating when, say, she can't seem to fathom that I would appreciate some financial assistance when it comes to new glasses/winter boots/groceries/etc.
Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want are:
1. To live and thrive in NYC
2. To have a career that I actually enjoy
3. To have a kitty who loves me best
4. A seamless integration of my closest college friends into post-college life
5. Oh, what the hell. I want my current relaitonship to survive my move to NY next year.
Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:
1. If I don't read at least a few pages before I go to sleep every night, I don't sleep very well and I'm grouchy the next day.
2. I drink a SlimFast shake every morning, not because I want to lose weight but because I want to gain a few pounds and that's an easy infusion of extra calories.
3. Haley and Aubrey and I walk a few miles every evening.
4. I go through phases of either listening to music every second I'm awake or not listening to any music at all.
5. I've sort of accidentally cut TV out of my daily life.
Five Things You May Not Know Are Really Important to My Character are:
1. Quiet
2. Books (actually, if you know me at all you know this, but whatever)
3. People who can make me laugh at myself
4. I need a lot of sleep in order to remotely resemble a functional human being.
5. People/books/movies/etc. that engage my mind
1. My middle school experience lasted five years. Don't ask.
2. I went to tiny private schools until college.
3. In 12th grade, I won a $5,000 poetry scholarship. I haven't written any poetry I'm proud of since.
4. My favorite high school English teacher, who I had for all four years, is the reason I was accepted to U of M.
5. I was told that I would graduate with honors, but when I received my diploma in the mail I discovered to my surprise that I'd apparently received High Honors instead. Go figure.
Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:
1. I started babysitting when I was about 12 years old.
2. My first real paycheck, not under-the-table job was working as a library page (i.e., I was one of the kids who reshelved books). I got fired after almost a year for reading on the job.
3. I'm currently working at my third library job. I suspect it won't be my last.
4. I've worked, in no particular order, as a babysitter, library page, assistant teacher, literacy tutor, cafeteria worker, sandwich maker, dishwasher, assistant editor, circulation desk assistant, proofreader, and research assistant.
5. I've had a regular job, with surprisingly few gaps, since I was 16 years old.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:
1. My oldest online friend is
corenrind. I met her through an online teen writers group called the PEN Society in... '95? '96? I think we were both in 8th grade.2. I met my first online friend in person the summer after 10th grade, and have been doing so ever since. I've never had a bad experience in the transition from OL to RL friend.
3. I've only met an online friend for purely non-platonic reasons once, in April, and it was an unreservedly positive experience.
4. The first time I ever got online was with AOL 2.0. That was back when IMs existed, but buddy lists did not, so if you wanted to talk to someone you had to search individual SNs to see if they were online.
5. IMs have always been a more important communication tool than e-mail to me.
Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:
1. Ann Arbor is at its best in the summer, when probably 75% of the students go the fuck away and leave the rest of us in peace for 4 months. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
2. The Fleming Admin Builsing is riot-proof-- the walls are all slightly sloped so potential rioters can't prop up ladders, and none of the windows belong to the offices they appear from the outside to belong to. Actually, anyone who is/was a U of M student and paid attention at Orientation probably knows this, but it's my favorite random AA factoid.
3. The population of Ann Arbor triples every summer for the weekend of Art Fair.
4. Ann Arbor's a great place to go to college and I bet it would be a great place to raise children, but I have no interest in living here after this year.
5. This town is small and insular enough that the usual six degrees of separation gets reduced to about two.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:
1. I'm usually really shy and reserved around strangers, but get me around friends and I can act like a drunk 13 year old at the drop of a hat.
2. I've had periodic, recurring low-grade depression since early middle school.
3. Big groups of people make me really uncomfortable. Small, intimate groups of good friends are much more enjoyable.
4. I find intelligence sexier than pretty much any other characteristic.
5. I've become close friends with more friends who get me this summer than at any other time in my life.
Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life are:
1. From the time my parents divorced when I was 20 months old, I lived in a single parent/only child home.
2. My family is tiny-- I never knew my father's family, and my mom's family consists of just her two siblings and their spouses, two cousins, and until Thanksgiving my grandmother.
3. My mom and I haven't been big Christmas/birthday celebrators since I was a kid.
4. I get along with my mom about eleventy billion times better when we don't live together.
5. My mom takes a very hands-off approach to her role as a parent now that I've grown up--She trusts me to be capable of making good decisions and taking care of myself. For the most part it's good and I appreciate her trust in me, but it gets frustrating when, say, she can't seem to fathom that I would appreciate some financial assistance when it comes to new glasses/winter boots/groceries/etc.
Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want are:
1. To live and thrive in NYC
2. To have a career that I actually enjoy
3. To have a kitty who loves me best
4. A seamless integration of my closest college friends into post-college life
5. Oh, what the hell. I want my current relaitonship to survive my move to NY next year.
Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:
1. If I don't read at least a few pages before I go to sleep every night, I don't sleep very well and I'm grouchy the next day.
2. I drink a SlimFast shake every morning, not because I want to lose weight but because I want to gain a few pounds and that's an easy infusion of extra calories.
3. Haley and Aubrey and I walk a few miles every evening.
4. I go through phases of either listening to music every second I'm awake or not listening to any music at all.
5. I've sort of accidentally cut TV out of my daily life.
Five Things You May Not Know Are Really Important to My Character are:
1. Quiet
2. Books (actually, if you know me at all you know this, but whatever)
3. People who can make me laugh at myself
4. I need a lot of sleep in order to remotely resemble a functional human being.
5. People/books/movies/etc. that engage my mind
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Date: 2004-09-08 01:44 pm (UTC)Hmmm. Would I find that as funny as I do if I wasn't such a huge reader?
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Date: 2004-09-08 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-08 03:46 pm (UTC)I suspect it's true for everyone that they get along with their mothers better when they don't live together. It's certainly true of me, and it's true of Travis, too.
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Date: 2004-09-08 04:08 pm (UTC)Elevators: They're not just for travel.