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- I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in computer science.
- I went back to school in 2000 and earned an associate degree in studio art from Georgia Perimeter College in 2002. It was great fun!
- I have a 30 year old son, who was a student of mine at GPC for four semesters.
- I love chocolate, especially dark chocolate.
- I am allergic to cantaloupe.
- My favorite TV shows are CSI (Miami and Vegas but not New York for some reason), Mike & Molly, and Dancing With the Stars.
- I met my husband online through Match.com.
- I like my steak medium-rare.
- I was always one of the last kids picked for sports teams as a child.
- Chemistry and physics were my worst subjects in school, but my least favorite subject was usually history.
- I did volunteer work for Good Mews, a no-cage, no-kill cat shelter, for a number of years.
- My favorite thing to do on vacation is take a class at the John C. Campbell Folk School or at Penland School of Crafts.
- My second favorite thing to do on vacation is go on a cruise.
- My first marriage lasted 23 years.
- I have been reading since I was three years old.
- I will read just about anything, including the backs of cereal boxes.
- I even enjoy reading trashy romance novels.
- My favorite color is purple, with blue and green close behind.
- I look awful wearing orange, so I don’t ever wear it.
- I am the only member of my immediate family who wasn’t born in Atlanta.
- I make the best pound cake in the world.
- My grandmother started teaching me needlework when I was seven years old.
- I was a weaver and spinner for over fifteen years before discovering lampworking.
- I belonged briefly to an small artists’ coop based in Clarkesville, where we did one or two shows/sales each year.
- I have kept a journal off and on since college.
- I love old cemeteries — the older the better.
- I used to ride my bicycle around the old Civil War battlefields near Petersburg, VA as a child.
- I worked in software development for six years before I started teaching.
- It took me six and a half years to finish graduate school.
- The only two things I’m really afraid of are heights and cockroaches.
- I am a total shoe slut — shoes are the only item of clothing I am willing to spend serious money on.
- I will never own a pair of Manolos or Jimmy Choos because I refuse to wear shoes that aren’t totally comfortable.
- My favorite color of Moretti glass is Dark Ivory (276) because it is so funky and reactive.
- I was named for my father (he’s Julian, I’m Julia).
- I never wanted to be a rock star myself; instead I wanted to be one of Tina Turner’s backup dancers.
- I first learned how to program computers back in the Dark Ages of punch cards.
- I got my first real computer in 1980 — an Apple II+ that cost $5000.
- Politically I’m probably best classified as a Libertarian, though I’m particularly hard to categorize here.
- I have delusions of being a gardener, specifically growing herbs.
- I have a strange love of modern-day Celtic rock music.
- I think Sean Connery was the best of the James Bonds, but Pierce Brosnan may have been the sexiest.
- Sometimes I would like to be a stand-up comic, but I really don’t have the nerve.
- I have two sisters, plus a half-brother and a half-sister.
- My first cousins are all male.
- I think it’s silly how some women, such as my sister, lie about their age.
- Some days I feel like a complete fraud.
- I have a bad tendency to procrastinate, but I’m going to do something about it…someday.
- One of my biggest pet peeves is people who take a hundred words to say something that could be said easily in ten.
- I’d rather vacuum than mop.
- Glasswise I am a “boro ho.” The dark side of glass is seductive!
- I prefer green olives to black olives.
- I wasn’t totally happy with any of the existing lampworking forums online, so I created The Glass Haven. It lived for two years, but when everyone left because it was drama-free, I shut it down. So much for people wanting a drama-free environment.
- I use Linux Mint (because Unity sucks) as my home desktop operating system, and Peppermint (also Linux-based) on my laptop. Both are surprisingly easy to install and start using!
- I only use Windows on someone else’s computer. Enough said.
- I take the NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) Challenge, to post every day for the month, every November. I usually don’t make it.
- My Myers-Briggs personality type is ISTJ.
- On the Enneagram, I am a Investigator/Thinker (Type 5).
- As of 1/27/2008, I had 130 RSS feeds coming into my Google Reader.? They were split about evenly between art and technology!
- I cried when Google shut down Google Reader.
- I refused to get into SMS text messaging until 2010. Then Andrea and I found out just how useful it was for communicating with each other…
- My favorite jump ring supplier is the incomparable Curt Dunaway of C & T Designs.
- Apparently I am a magnet for some of the more, ah, unusual students at GPC — they are often found hanging out in my office or classroom.
- Ravenclaw, of course.
- My Patronus? A Cat. Naturally.
- I took up bellydance at age 52.
- My age doesn’t stop me from dancing in public on occasion.
- I don’t suffer from Resting Bitch Face; I rather embrace it.
- I’ve been in a mosh pit exactly once. It was hell.
- When I buy clothes, I have to wash them before I can wear them, even if they are new, just in case.
Hello
I am not one of your students but I am looking for a student to help design a simple website for a jewelry business that I am starting. I would be willing to pay them for their work, naturally.
If you know of anyone that would be interested please email at happypanda@bellsouth.net or call 770 596 2994.
Thank you.
Carol
I think you should leave it at 65 things in homage to facts 47 and 48.