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You all know the drill by now. Read, copy, paste, insert your answers, send to understanding friends.

Four Jobs I've had in my life:

1. UM Honors program new student counselor

2. Special education teacher

3. Research Assistant

4. Information Architect / Project Manager

Four Movies I could watch over and over (and have):

1. Princess Bride - "No more rhymes now, I mean it! ... Anybody want a peanut?"

2. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle - "Thank you, come again!"

3. Goonies - Mostly because of my husband's obsession - "I am wanda-ring... wha is in dat van?"

4. The Last Starfighter - I recently rediscovered this gem! - "Oh, Shhhhh....!"

Four Places I have lived:

1. Avon, Ohio

2. Boston, Massachusetts

3. Ann Arbor, Michigan

2. Royal Oak, Michigan

Four TV Shows I Love(d) to Watch:

1. My name is Earl

2. Dark Angel

3. Firefly

4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Four Places I have been on Vacation:

1. New Orleans, Louisiana

2. Cancun, Mexico

3. Rome, Italy

4. Hawaii!

Four Websites I visit Daily:

1. http://www.google.com/

2. http://www.bloglines.com/

3. http://www.wikipedia.com/

4. http://www.thesaurus.com/

Four Favorite Foods:

1. Berries - any kind

2. Ice Cream

3. Peanut Butter

4. Cheese

Four Places I'd Rather Be Right Now

1. Asleep

2. Hawaii

3. With John & Amelia

4. Asleep

Stephanie got me...

Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot.

making (nee stitch marker)
step into my thimble
scissorina
gleek.net
kt moxie

Then select people to tag:

nicole at pirate blog
Mikko

What were you doing 9 years ago?
January 1997 - My second senior year in undergrad.  I was supposed to be working diligently as a student teacher in New Boston, but I was much more pre-occupied with my new fiancee!  John and I got engaged on New Year's Eve, only 1 1/2 months after we started dating in November of 1996.  I was wedding planning, partying in the coop, and being all starry eyed in love (I still am, BTW). 

What were you doing 6 years ago?
January 1999 - Second semester in grad school.  John was working remotely from our apartment in Ann Arbor, and I was a student again.  I was attempting to land an interesting summer job in my vocation (and I did, thanks to gleek!), but still having a grand ole time hangin' out with the intellectuals.

What were you doing one hour ago?
Fixing a prototype and chatting with some interns.

Name 3 movies/tv programs you can't turn off if you stumble across them on television.
Princess Bride
CSI
Anything historical (I'm still a nerd!)

Name 3 things you want to improve upon this year.
Eating.  My eating habits have been crappy lately.
Finding more time get everything done.
Being less stressed.

Name 3 things you can't live without.
My daughter
My hubby
My mom

Name 3 things you could....
War
Intolerance
People I want to punch.

Name 3 things you really like about yourself.
My intellect.  Ok.  I'm a smarty pants and I know it.
My leadership.
My friendships.

FAQ: Plan For Victory

Raging Moderate, By Will Durst

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PRESIDENT BUSH'S PLAN FOR VICTORY:

Q. President Bush recently announced his "PLAN FOR VICTORY." What does this plan entail?
A. Its two-pronged. There is a short-term plan and a long-term plan.

Q. And what are they?
A. The short-term plan is to keep the Democrats from regaining control of Congress in '06.

Q. And the long term-plan?
A. Keeps the Democrats from regaining control of the White House in '08. Or acquires photographs of Hillary Clinton in bed with a goat and/or a woman.

Q. So, nothing about Iraq then?
A. Well, now that you mention it there was something about the brave freedom-loving Iraqis and how, together, we are winning the tough struggle against violent extremism, but it was just more of the same in an attempt to rescue his poll numbers from falling through the floor like an anvil made of dark matter.

Q. What is the PLAN FOR VICTORY going to replace?
A. The PLAN FOR QUAGMIRE we've been following the last three years.

Q. Didn't he reveal a strategy for winning?
A. Yeah, but, you know what, so do the Chicago Cubs. Every spring. Don't imagine election-bound Republicans are looking forward to changing their slogan to: "We'll get 'em next year."

Q. What is their slogan now?
A. Lately, it seems to be "Incompetent, Corrupt Cronies 'R Us."

Q. Didn't he also refuse to set a timetable for withdrawal saying it would send a message to the world that America was weak?
A. Yes, he did. So apparently he's okay with continuing to send a message to the world that America is a big bad bully who will beat the crap out of you if we don't like the way you look at us.

Q. Don't we run the danger of alienating our allies if we just cut and run?
A. Cut and run? There's no running. This isn't running. This is walking. Backwards. Really fast backward walking. Who knows, we might even walk backwards really fast right into Iran or Syria.

Q. How does the president define victory?
A. According to a separate 35-page document accompanying the speech titled "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq," victory means creating the conditions that allow us to leave.

Q. Is he saying that getting out of Iraq is our only path to victory?
A. No. No. No. A lot of victories await us. Tiny victories and little victories and medium-sized victories. Not to say we haven't experienced victories already. A couple tiny victories, a moral victory and an election victory. And if we string a bunch of these little victories together, it could add up to a nice medium-sized victory. Or a gaggle of little victories and a medium victory, or a series of medium victories coupled with one or two moral victories could add up to a big victory. And two or three big victories could result in a humongous victory.

Q. What is that?
A. A Republican victory. In November '06 and '08.

Q. What is the best-case scenario?
A. We try to incubate democracy in the Mideast and whenever the political costs at home get too high, we declare victory and leave, leaving our secret prison camps intact.

Political comic Will Durst is declaring victory over his comedy club career.

Here's my latest response to the parley question,

"What's the oldest message in your email? And why are you holding onto it?"

While Nicole is a pack rat, I'm an obsessive organizer of my email.  (Actually, I'm an obsessive organizer of everything.)  I hate my inbox clogging up with irrelevant emails.  I periodically go through my inboxes (both work & home) and clear out all emails except ones I still need to "do something" about.  My emails are also automatically sorted into folders by subject line or author.  This way, I know any email that comes into my actual inbox should be reviewed now.  These inbox emails are eventually deleted or sorted into the right folder, too.

The oldest email in my current inbox is my confirmation from Contiki for our trip to Hawaii in January!  It's dated Nov. 8, 2005.  I'm keeping it as a record of my confirmation.  Or maybe I kept it to remind me we are going to Hawaii!

My oldest archived email is from Nov 22, 2000 (Ha!  Over 5 years!  I got you beat Nicole!).  It's from a headhunter.  The one that got me a job.  I guess I decided to keep it just in case I needed to contact her again.  Ironically, I know through the grapevine (the IT community in Detroit is VERY small and VERY inbred) that she is no longer working for that headhunter company.  In fact, I heard she was in real estate!  I guess I can delete that email now.

Oh, I suppose I have even older emails.  I have archive files of my older email accounts stored on a hard drive at home.  So, if you consider this, am I a pack rat, too?  If I am, I'm the librarian of the pack rats. 

Here's my latest response to the Parley Open, "Name ten ways You communicate."

1. The Look: I've been told I'm quite effective at this one. I can communicate "Cut it out", "I'm annoyed with you" or "Are you an idiot?" with slight variations of my Look.

2. Fits of argument: I don't like to lose a fight...

3. Innuendo: - if you know what I mean... ;)

4. Question monger: I often resort to questioning people to death if a) I don't understand their point of view, b) I'm intrigued by their point of view, or c) I'm hoping the will see the faults in their perspective if they have to explain themselves into a corner.

5. Loudly: I've been told that my voice excalates as I get more excited, more adamant, or more amused. I have to blame my family - you had to speak loud to get a word in edgewise!

6. Even keel: In an attempt to not intimidate, offend or enrage, I often try to painstakenly compose emails and other written material to convey "no blame", "I have an open mind", and "Let's negotiate."

7. Silence: Sometimes nothing is more powerful.

8. Teacher style: Though I have left the profession, I get the job of instructor often.

9. Encourager: With children and those seeking my help, I easily fall into encouraging language: "Good job", "You're doing better...", "Do you need help?", "That looks great!", etc, etc... Must be related to the teacher thing. Maybe the mom thing, too.

10. Interrupting: I'm working on reducing this habit, because it's not my best attribute. But, when I'm involved in a conversation, I *sometimes* will interrupt if I feel the other parties are talking in circles or not hearing my point.

Ok. You are right, Nicole. This was pretty easy to come up with a list of ten.