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Since many of the folks on my flist are people I've never been in face to face contact with, but what the hell, I'll be a sheep and moo with the oddest of them:
01. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie reminds me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.
I haven't responded to this one in the journals of those I haven't actually met, but don't let that stop you if you feel the urge, I'll just take a page out of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dilickjm's book and make stuff up.
01. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie reminds me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.
I haven't responded to this one in the journals of those I haven't actually met, but don't let that stop you if you feel the urge, I'll just take a page out of
dilickjm's book and make stuff up.
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2: 'Weird' Al Yankovich - Eat it
3: Lunch o'clock
4: Food.
5: The only time we've hung out was when you were in DC last summer staying with
6: You, having posted all those pictures of all the cows decorating your house, have become one with The Great Star Cow, in whose pasture we exist; may he never be tipped!
7: Seeing as how you have a degree in education, how come you never taught?
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6) Dude, you have to come SEE the cows. The one my SIL put on the wall is incredibly cool.
7) I'm actually degree-less. I left school with a semester to go after mono, otherwise poor health, a tuition jump and getting laid off conspired against me. (I'm pretty sure this was discussed on RASFWRJ some years back). I had always intended to finish that off and teach German to high schoolers. In the meantime, all of my friends in the profession were jumping ship like rats from the Titanic, and the complaints were all the same - "They won't let us TEACH! It's all this rote memory shit for tests and the kids don't get to really LEARN anything!" I thought, well, OK, but I'm going to teach German, so they will actually learn the language. Hm.
Then Alex entered school and I saw that they weren't kidding. Everything is all about the tests from the second they enter school, and I'm watching teacher enthusiasm just wither up and die from this. Teaching isn't something you do for money, it's something you do for love. It's something you're called to, and it's a shocking and painful thing when you're not permitted to practice your craft after being fed the line ("You can make a difference!") for your entire course of study and hard work.
In the ensuing years, the requirements for getting your teaching credentials in the state of Ohio have changed dramatically, and I just don't want to do it anymore. I teach, but not within the confines of state requirements, which lets me actually do the job the way I know it will get through to the kids. I think I'm doing more good working in the school as a parent volunteer and assisting the district with technology education and implementation than I would be in a classroom of my own. I get all of the rewards of watching the lights come on for a kid, and none of the administrative headaches.
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2: Toys
3: 11:30
4: Privileged
5: Alas, we've never had a moment.
6: Wombat
7: Now that you've graduated from college, what are you going to do with the rest of your life? If that's too much, the rest of the day.
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7. Today's plan is to go see a movie and then nail down a sublet. The post-graduation plan is leaning toward law school, actually.
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2: Ice Pirates
3: O'dark thirty
4: Cylindrical
5: Don't make me drive to Tennessee and open up a can o' whoop ass! Because you know, your wife would beat the shit out of me and all.
6: Badger!
7: Did your wife ever forgive you for referring to her as the Amazing Expando Annette. In public. On usenet?
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#2: Arr!
#5: She would, y'know.
#6: Mushroom, mushroom!
#7: Ayep. Once the compound fractures healed and all, of course.
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5: Yes, yes I do.
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2: The Manhattan Project
3: Time to go.
4: Hunted
5: It was the time you,
6: North American River Otter.
7: How goes the job hunt in your continuing effort to get the hell out of Texas and move back to the Right Coast?
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2: The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
3: Late o'clock
4: Chaotic
5: The weekend the 10?(more, less?) of us spent at Eric and Noell's will have to do, as it's the only time we've hung out.
6: Bongo
7: So, if this whole Hollywood thing gets old, what else would you do?
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7. Dunno. As long as it's something creative I'd probably be okay. I'd like to travel, but that does not necessarily require that I get tired of the Hollywood thing.
I've been told I'd be a good teacher, if worst comes to worst.
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2: The Clash - London Calling
3: Five o'clock, but only on one of those stately grandfather clocks where the five is the purity of a simple 'V'.
4: Unflapable.
5: Of the two times you've visited us here in the DC Metro Area, I think the time we were trying to grill in the dark in front of
6: Owl
7: I'm curious, are you still looking to jump to this side of the pond? You do realize things are no less fucked up here, just differently fucked up, yes?
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I suspect that, were I actually a US voter at the present time, I'd be the archetype of the irritated libertarianish wondering who I can possibly vote for *now*.
7: Yes, absolutely, assuming I can find any means to do it. As for the latter - well, I'd still maintain that things would have to get much, much worse before they reached the level of fucked-upness hereabouts. Not that I'd claim that the US is entirely flawless or close to it, but it's still the best option of the nations on offer in my book, and that by a pretty hefty margin.
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2: Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
3: Time be time, mon.
4: Ineffable.
5: I remember hanging out with you and your then new bride (and now I remember why I was thinking Nicole when I meant Noell in
6: Arctic Fox
7: You and the previously mentioned wife planning on having little Darkelves anytime soon?
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2: Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy
3: Do deities actually need worry about time?
4: Inscrutible
5: I'll have to give you a raincheck on this one. I will attend a DFS at Kenn or Maggie's at some point, and I'll make an effort to time it such that I get to meet you and some of the other Canooks and/or European types what show up for it.
6: Lynx
7: Do you ever hear from any of the Lost Outpost of rasfwrj in Winnipeg?
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(Given that we've never met, or really had a direct conversation, you can skip this if you want.)
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2: Rage Against the Machine - Any really, they all pretty much sound the same, and I say that as someone who likes their music.
3: Whenever, dude.
4: Enthusiastic.
5: Hey, remember that time when...oh wait, you couldn't possibly, as it's all a psychotic episode on my part!
6: Dolphin
7: Once you finish your degree and get back to doing real work, where would you like to be doing said real work?
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In all of those situations, I'd want to stay in or close to Columbus. I could probably deal with grad school elsewhere, but I'd want to come back.
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2: Akira Soundtrack - Kaneda's Theme
3: Slice o'clock high
4: Dedicated.
5: You were the man I didn't see who wasn't there, aren't you?
6: Black Rhinocerous
7: Do you own an actual folded steel Katana, or just bokken and shinai (I know you have these, you'd have to for Kendo).
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