<p>Screen name: was counting down towards the kids heading off to college (joined the summer between S1’s soph and junior year)</p>
<p>Education: journalism and polisci, SEC flagship</p>
<p>Jobs: babysitting, fast food, campus cafeteria, resident assistant, campus bus driver, retirement plan specialist, benefit communications, 401(k) admin, PR for local mental health non-profit, SAHM (not that we were ever home much), Judaic fabric artist</p>
<p>Fun facts: read Torah trope; was healthy as a horse til 41, when the figurative roof fell in; former Army brat; love to travel and take photos. Was mistaken for a nun (in my Bicentennial Girl Scout uniform) at the Masters Tournament in 1976.</p>
<p>CCers I’ve met: mythmom, mathmom, esobay, historymom, fencersmom, NCEph, jym626, unalove, mountains and know a couple of folks locally. Kids are amused by my imaginary friends.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids:
You forgot a fun fact - I think you have more posts on CC than any other poster.</p>
<p>emilybee:
My mother could have given you a pretty run at scrabble and I would have even been willing to put some money on her winning. She was a fantastic scrabble player. It’s good to see someone else who really enjoys the game.</p>
<p>I have nearly 50 nieces and nephews thanks to my H and I coming from very large Catholic families…and yes, I know all their names and birthdates! lol</p>
<p>I’ve kissed Kevin Costner, and also went to his first wedding. </p>
<p>My family is known for having many patents…including ones that are used by nearly everyone on their cars, their laptops, their coffee makers, and their satellite dishes… It’s a family tradition starting with my uncle who invented a very important car part that General Motors paid some big bucks for decades ago. </p>
<p>My brother has an Emmy award (boy it’s bigger than you’d think).</p>
<p>jym - I thought I remembered one from back in the day but I was thinking it was under the old site!! that’s what prompted me to start a new one, thinking back to then.</p>
<p>I’d say I’ve probably grown up a bit since then, lol!</p>
<p>More about me - today was my 7 year anniversary at my place of employment. Boy the time has flown by!</p>
<p>I forgot another “fun fact” about me. My in laws live in Augusta, Georgia. H and I get to go to the Masters thanks to their friends who usually have extra tickets. If y’all go to the Masters, let me know. We can meet up at Rhinehart’s!</p>
<p>Screen name: murmur - REM song, my husband & I loved the band from early 80’s on so it is often found it’s way to referenced in our email, log-ins etc.</p>
<p>Education: BA & MLS</p>
<p>Job: One of the few people who knew at nine I wanted to a librarian and did that job from age 16 for 25 years until I had a medical crisis. I miss being a librarian but loved being home with my kids when they were older.</p>
<p>Fun Facts: Your’s are so cool, I was going to say, I credit CC for helping me, help my S, who is now a college senior be able to do the things he wanted to do. My D is a hs junior and CC will come through again. Thank you to all of you.</p>
<p>Screen Name: a nod to the state flower of Maryland (of which I am 3rd generation – the state, not the flower)</p>
<p>Education: graphic design major in college (Carnegie Mellon); went to law school when I couldn’t get a job in that field</p>
<p>Jobs: camp counselor, tennis store clerk, bank teller, healthcare lawyer (for 27 years)</p>
<p>Fun facts: Holly Hunter was in my undergrad dorm; I met my husband on a blind date; It didn’t take me long to add “y’all” to my vocabulary after moving to Texas</p>
<p>CC’ers I’ve met: patsmom, Ottoline and a few other Rice moms – nicest people ever!</p>
<p>My screenname: obvious! Doesn’t work anymore at least not right now since I am no longer overseas, but a part of me is, I guess.</p>
<p>Education: I like the South, Southern Cal, UT, and Southern Miss! Undergrad in French and Education, Masters in English and Library.</p>
<p>Jobs: the gamut from waitress, artificial inseminator, farmer, clerk at Marks and Sparks, school teacher, K-12 librarian and now college librarian and aspiring writer.</p>
<p>Lived and worked all over the place including some states and 5 countries.</p>
<p>Fun: Drank a beer with Janis Joplin, grew up around “On the Road” characters, related to Mayflower folks and assorted characters, enjoying my new locale in Amish country.</p>
<p>CC: I was supposed to meet up with a group years ago in the Silicon Valley. I was home and I don’t remember why, but the meeting fell through. Does anyone remember?</p>
<p>I raised cattle and got the opportunity to learn a trade and took a course with Curtis Candy Company, yes, they were involved in the trade and I had beautiful Simmental cattle crosses for a while. Good enough?</p>
<p>My family raised, bred and showed an unusual breed of dog. I was a junior handler. Also was in a newspaper ad, a babysitter, camp counselor, movie extra etc before getting settled in my “real” job.</p>
<p>Have had relatives who invented stuff-- like the “skort”,and one was the first “human dummy” on the vaudeville stage in NYC (ok now, I can hear you snickering out there…) My DH’s relative invented (with some co-workers) the 45 rpm record at RCA.</p>
<p>I (accidentally) told David Copperfield to bite me. Its not really what I said, but its how he took it. Was quite funny, actually.</p>
<p>Every one is so interesting that I hesitate to publish my meager facts, but…</p>
<p>Name: I’m from CT originally and love to cook, so I tried to use Nutmeg but it was taken, so I resorted to Consolation, as in Patrick O’Brian’s Nutmeg of Consolation. (I love Patrick O’Brian.)</p>
<p>Where I live: Maine</p>
<p>Education: Wellesley, AB English; U of C, grad student in English w/o degree.</p>
<p>Career: All kind of jobs, ultimately Manager of Technical Publications at a large software developer, Mgr of Corp Comm at an MIS consulting company…more along those lines. Moved to Maine and became a SAHM, church lady, and volunteer active in gay rights, schools, etc. Currently a chocolatier with my own small company, and also work for the Census Bureau as a Senior Field Representative.</p>
<p>Fun facts: distantly related to Billie Burke, the Good Witch Glinda, major Broadway star and wife of Florenz Zeigfeld, and novelist Edna O’Brien.</p>
<p>CCers I’ve met: none, although I have spoken to jym626 on the phone!</p>
Hey, I have that same answer! And if emails count, I know several very cool ladies via that backchannel route.</p>
<p>Name: frazzled is my default setting. I was “frazzled one” on the old CC and couldn’t figure out how to bring that name over to the new version.</p>
<p>Education: BA English from a justifiably no-name school.</p>
<p>Career: grocery store cashier (high school), insurance company clerk (college), medical underwriter (worst one ever), development research officer, SAHM, assistant director of a small non-profit</p>
<p>fun facts: like musicamusica, I too “can watch any movie made between 1935 and 1955 and name every obscure character actor or actress on the screen by sight.” Unlike her, I can neither paint (at all) nor cook especially well. And there’s no profit in being able to tell Walter Connolly from Eugene Pallette. But my husband is very intrigued that I can almost always name whatever movie TCM is showing within a few seconds. It’s a pointless gift, but I’ll take it. Keeping that magic alive. :D</p>
<p>The only somewhat famous person I’m connected to in any way is a former NASA head whose daughter was in my Girl Scout troop for 3 years.</p>