<p>frazzled and consolation–
Our conversations were about similar issues, IIRC.</p>
<p>I’ve met several cc’ers IRL, and had 2 stay at my home. One did the kindest thing I could ever imagine and will be forever grateful. Still waiting to return the favor (and you know who you are). I’ve also had wonderful assistance from, and been happy to help, many cc’ers. I’ve virtually “met” many ccers and we’ve heled each other in many many ways. Great network here. I recall helping one cc’er reconnect with an old friend of hers from college. Her friend happened to transfer to my undergrad (and my year, I think). Anyway, I contacted her through our alumnae directory, told her her old friend (roommate?) was looking for her, and got them reconnected.</p>
<p>I should add that MaineLonghorn and I are acquainted with each other’s kids, at least from being on a team together, although WE have not actually spoken!</p>
<p>More weird factoids:
My friend’s aunt was Mae Questel (the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl)</p>
<p>and Alan Menken ( Academy award winning writer of many scores for Disney – Little Mermaid, BEauty and the Beast, Alladin, etc)‘s father was my parents’ dentist</p>
<p>Buffalo Bob Smith (of Howdy Doody fame) owned (and ran-- we’d go in to say hi) the local liquor store and is brother Vic owned the kids shoe store across the street. Three guesses where many of the kids in the peanut gallery came from? My brother was in the peanut gallery but I was too young But we’d get Clarabelle the clown and Princess Summerfall Winterspring and Ticklefeather and others would always show up at our annual elementary school fair!</p>
<p>Screen name: an important component of my beloved European sportswagon</p>
<p>Education: undergraduate in Civil Engineering (Elbonia College of Mines and Engineering) and Computer Science (Louisiana), graduate in Computer Science (Louisiana) and Human Factors (Purdue)</p>
<p>Lived in: Louisiana, US Midwest, Cambridge Mass, Portland Oregon, Elbonia (in random order)</p>
<p>Employment: Software engineer in a consumer electronics firm</p>
<p>Fun facts: Photography, house painting, landscaping, pet rodents</p>
<p>Screen name: prefer not to say–but I’d rather be called “atom,” not “ato.” Nothing to do with chemistry. Just thought it sounded funny, like “atom bomb.”
Education: BA and MA in English Lit/ESL (from 2 different state schools in OH)
Employment: lots of stuff over the years: car dealer receptionist, cafeteria worker, amusement park ride operator and street sweeper, construction co. secretary, classroom teacher, admin. asst. for med school, SAHM, tutor (ESL, math, test prep).
Lived in 5 different states and 2 foreign countries.
Fun facts: I have 7 kids (yes, they’re all mine). I’m a former homeschooler. RPCV. Veil-wearing Trad Catholic. I give up CC for Lent every year. I can touch my toes AND put both hands flat on the ground. (If only this were an Olympic sport.) I know shorthand. Grow roses. Like cats.
CCers met: none, but I’ve run across a couple on-line that live a stone’s throw from my house.
I also fixed up a CC student with a college roommate.</p>
<p>Finished Masters in School Counseling@ NYU, left corporate life (took a package, it is a great thing to leave on your own terms) and have been working a GC for the past 6 years.</p>
<p>Chicky went to first year seminar on the great migration, became a religion major and went to law school.</p>
<p>We still have the dog, she still has abandonment issues, but we can now walk more than a half block from home.</p>
<p>Not so fun fact: at work at the WTC for both 1993 bombing and 9/11 (just glad to still be here)</p>
<p>Screen Name: initials of the town we live in</p>
<p>Education; BS in Psychology, MA in School Psychology</p>
<p>Jobs: School Psychologist for past 27 years in 3 different districts (2 in NC & 1 in upstate NY)</p>
<p>Facts: I also am the head basketball coach at a local Junior College, Coach K from Duke had a hand in me landing my first head job back in 1988 (worked at his Duke summer camp for 10 straight summers). Wife is also a School Psychologist, 2 D’s one a graduate of George Mason & Niagara , the other a Soph. at Cornell.</p>
<p>Education: BS from a medium sized midwestern university.Major: Biology, no minor but about 23 credits in Chemistry.</p>
<p>Employment: Medical technologist turned accountant turned SAHM turned back into accountant. Have a CPA but have never done taxes or auditing, just corporate financial accounting.</p>
<p>Have lived in DC suburbs for over 25 years but still identify as a girl from a small town in the midwest.</p>
<p>Fun facts: love dogs, cities, classic R & B, the color green, read 2-3 books per week.</p>
<p>cc’ers I have met: none. Am FB friends with one. Would love to meet all of you, especially the posters on the College Class of 2013 thread.</p>
<p>Also, my kids have no idea that I am on cc and I intend to keep it that way.</p>
<p>Screen name: At the time, I felt we needed to keep moving onward with our college search.</p>
<p>Education: two years at a ivy wantabe school that I didn’t fit well with and then a transfer to a big 10 school where I had a great time but didn’t work real hard. I guess I can relate to many kids.</p>
<p>Employment: Kelly girl (anyone remember them), pharmacy tech, park ranger, teacher’s aide, and now substitute teaching (pay isn’t good, but can take time off whenever I want it).</p>
<p>Lived in: Western NY, tidewater Virginia, and northern Illinois.</p>
<p>Fun fact- Can id most trees and plants, animals and breeds of dogs. I wish there was a job that required that skill. I have put many titles on our dogs.</p>
<p>Re: Kissing Kevin Costner - lots of times…lol…but all platonically :)</p>
<p>When I was in college, my boyfriend attended another univ. He was in Kevin’s frat and I became a “little sis”. So, I got to know Kevin pretty well, went on ski trips with him, etc. The frat was very kissy/kissy…always kissed the little sis’s whenever they saw them…on the mouth. That’s what they did…(I’ve kissed many frat guys many, many times…lol). </p>
<p>When Kevin got married (the first time), I went to his wedding (I still have the invite in my college scrapbook…) Kevin was the first groom that I ever saw cry at his wedding. He cried when his bride Cindy walked down the aisle, he cried during the vows, etc. It was a Catholic wedding, so it was long with lots of crying. (Since then, I’ve seen other guys cry at their weddings, including my own H…lol).</p>
<p>I’ve also kissed a NFL quarterback! (that wasn’t platonic! )</p>
<p>Screen name: Used to collect baskets. Now I just use them. :)</p>
<p>Education: Midsized Michigan state univ - double major Child Development/Psych</p>
<p>Lived in: Grew up in Michigan, lived in Ohio for 30ish years. Honestly, still feel more attached to Michigan than Ohio!</p>
<p>Employment: Pre-college: Ice Cream Scooper In-College: Pizza Hut Waitress and Grocery store cashier. Post-college: Children’s mental health services, Child Development Center Director, several pediatric based positions - child life specialist, newborn parent educator, NICU service coordinator and currently director of pediatric literacy programming.</p>
<p>Fun facts: Moroccan heritage, attended 7 Clay Aiken concerts (D1 WAS a crazed fan!), creeped on Apolo Ohno at his hotel room and later met him (D1 was and IS still a fan!), have a summer cottage in Canada.</p>
<p>Screen Name: for my 4 children who are not children anymore!</p>
<p>Education: BA in Economics</p>
<p>Employment: baby sitter, fast food (ugh), law library, banking, SAHM, quilt shop teacher</p>
<p>Lived: VA, CA, OH, CT, PA, WA, VA, TN, VA! Loved every place for different reasons!</p>
<p>Fun facts: Nutz about quilting, cats, and geocaching with H. Oh, and I can touch my toes and put my hands flat on the floor too! Olympics here we come! Have owned one Volvo or another for my entire married life.</p>
<p>CC’ers: Two, both at college visits in Arkansas and South Carolina. Who knows how many I pass by IRL?</p>
<p>Screen name - random name starting with M ( not my own )</p>
<p>Signed on here after my son’s first college visit the summer before his senior year of high school. I don’t post much, but I’ll be here for a while yet. S is a sophomore/ junior (now on the 5 year plan!) and my youngest D is turning 10.</p>
<p>I grew up in the metropolitan NY area. (NYC to NJ to western LI to eastern LI). Went to SUNY Stony Brook, changed majors 5 times and dropped out.</p>
<p>Moved to the Boston area (friends had moved up here) I ended up working in materials research, first as a technician, now in planning/management.</p>
<p>I used to be an avid cyclist, musical through high school until braces ruined my ombouchure. I like the outdoors, but don’t find much time to indulge. I feel like I am on a hamster wheel, or living the movie groundhog day at the moment. I do read a lot.</p>
<p>I do sew! Mostly quilts these days, not clothes. Would always rebel at any pattern and my clothes were kind of weird that I made. I have a big closet in the basement full of them. </p>
<p>I’ve moved around a ton, have lived on the West Coast, Southwest, Southeast, Midwest and now suburban Somerset County New Jersey. I’ve honesty been fond of every single place I’ve lived. I dislike any post that seems to pull regional bias. </p>
<p>I studied engineering back in the day because that’s what my dad and uncles and older brothers all did and I didn’t really understand you could study anything else. it was not the best fit. I worked out in CA in high tech for awhile. Then lived in a series of smaller college towns and had kids and picked up a master’s in stats and have carved out a career of sorts doing statistical programming/analysis for academic researchers, mostly remotely these days. I like to be able to work in my pajamas. I also like that I can pick and choose projects and go significant stretches not working thanks to a spouse who seems to love to work.</p>
<p>Can’t remember how I came upon CC. I go away for stretches, then come back. It’s really a fun place to vent and muse and compare notes about kids and parenting and life in general.</p>
<p>I am sure I saw you, Musicamusica! I was a second shift production supervisor in the early days of MTV … it was such a welcome addition to the tv line-up for a young adult with nothing to do in the wee hours of the morning after work.</p>
<p>Dancing in music videos. Why I hate YOUTUBE. My little 15 minutes of fame will not go away. (actually a congregate 64 seconds of fame) Little did I know that after someone picked me out at a nightclub with an offer of $50 bucks (CASH!!!) that I would live on YOUTUBE forever. Three years ago I went to a book signing of one of my fellow “dancers” who is now a relatively famous designer. When I playfully threatened to expose his dark dancing secret, the look of horror on his face was priceless.</p>
<p>The internet is very scary in that way–things that are posted to it develop their own life and can “live” forever, whether it is the desire of the person(s) featured or not! I try to be very careful and selective about what is posted by and about me, but things just live forever–good & bad!</p>
But we’d get Clarabelle the clown and Princess Summerfall Winterspring and Ticklefeather and others would always show up at our annual elementary school fair!</p>
I have put many titles on our dogs.</p>
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