Oooh, fun. I have a stack of smelly plates waiting for me in the incubator...but Janet's ABC meme is more interesting. Answers below the fold.
Accent: Midwest, so what most people think of when they say "American accent." Did start saying "waaa-ter" and "cawww-fee" a bit too much after waitressing for several years in Connecticut, but have long shaken that.
Booze: Not much of a drinker. Tried to develop a taste for beer but still hate the stuff. On the rare occasions I actually go out, it's usually something with a vodka base.
Chore I Hate: Vacuuming.
Dog or Cat: Have a dog right now, but it's a chihuahua so according to some, it doesn't count toward that species at all.
Essential Electronics: Computer and any kind of radio/CD player/digital music gadget. Music is essential.
Favorite Cologne: I don't think I've owned any perfume since junior high.
Gold or Silver: Meh. I wear some of both.
Hometown: Technically Findlay, Ohio, but I grew up in the country outside of town.
Insomnia: Never.
Job Title: Assistant professor/microbiologist/epidemiologist/lab rat/mom.
Kids: 2, ages 6 and 4.
Living arrangements: Old farmhouse out in the sticks.
Most admirable traits: I don't give up easily.
Not going to cop to: I don't think much can be worse than the country music thing.
Overnight hospital stays: Just for the kiddos.
Phobias: None I can think of.
Quote: I suck at remembering good quotes. --Tara Smith
Religion: Not so much.
Siblings: Sister and brother, both younger.
Time I wake up: Depends on the day. 5-6AM weekdays, 7-9AM weekends (essentially, whenever the dog or the rugrats start a-callin').
Unusual talent or skill: I can juggle. Badly.
Vegetable I love: I'm such a bad vegetable-eater. Anything but corn I have to mix with other stuff to eat.
Worst habit: Procrastination (which should be obvious by the mere fact that I'm filling this out).
X-rays: Hand, wrist, and finger at different times. Midsection from a bout with kidney stones in high school.
Yummy foods I make: Chicken alfredo. Lasagna. Lemon chicken with rice pilaf. Casseroles. Cookies. Pies. I'm a pretty good cook.
Zodiac sign: Pisces.
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Holy cow, you're from findlay?
My family lived in findlay from 1972-76; first through fourth grade for me at Wilson Vance. My father worked at the RCA plant.
It was such a hellhole that we moved out as fast as possible :-)
(My family is Jewish; Findlay is quite a hostile place if you're not WASP. I'll be 40 this year, and I still have vivid memories groups of kids on the playground at that miserable school cornering me and my brother asking us why we killed jesus. We didn't know anything about X-inanity, so we didn't have any idea what they were talking about.)
Me too...me too!!
Accent: Standard Canadian, 'oot' and 'aboot'.
Booze: Very rarely, the occasional glass of wine or liqueur.
Chore I Hate: Anything to do with the lawn.
Dog or Cat: A cat, but he's larger than many dogs.
Essential Electronics: Computer, DVD player.
Favorite Cologne: Hi-Karate!
Gold or Silver: I'll take either, and even settle for Bronze.
Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Insomnia: Only when the cat mentioned above walks over me to get to the window.
Job Title: Technical Whiz and Grand Potentate, geology.
Kids: None, despite what that woman from Decatur tells you.
Living arrangements: Split-entry in the burbs.
Most admirable traits: Modesty!
Not going to cop to: I like to sing along with Shania Twain in the car.
Overnight hospital stays: Never overnight. Been to outpatients once when I got a cinder in my eye, and again when a fish-hook impaled my finger.
Phobias: SPIDERS!
Quote: Hurry up boys before all the indians get away! --- Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.
Religion: Not really. Your typical C&E type.
Siblings: 5 siblings of assorted ages.
Time I wake up: 5 AM when the wife goes to work, otherwise 7-8 AM.
Unusual talent or skill: Can burp at will, and will burp when I can.
Vegetable I love: Wheat!
Worst habit: Procrastination (which should be obvious by the mere fact that I'm also filling this out).
X-rays: Dental X-Rays. Chest when I joined the army for a brief stint.
Yummy foods I make: Assorted Italian pasta dishes. And my Beef Stroganoff is very good if I do say so myself.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius or Capricorn, I'm never sure which. My psychic told me astrology is bunk.
Since we're sharing ...
Accent: Mixed. I grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, so it's mostly New York/New Englandish, but since 1978 I've lived in Wyoming, Chicago and Kentucky. So I can say cawwwfee and y'all in the same sentence!
Booze: Mostly beer, sometimes wine, rarely the harder stuff. I do like the occasional single-malt scotch, though, if anyone here's buying.
Chore I hate: Emptying the litter box, followed by grading papers.
Dog or cat: At the moment, neither. We've had both.
Essential electronics: A PC, a PDA and some kind of musical emission device.
Favorite Cologne: The one in Germany.
Gold or silver: Gold wedding band. That's about it.
Hometown: Roslyn, NY, but I grew up in Huntington, NY (My high school is in Cold Spring Harbor, BTW. I went to school with Hershey's son.)
Insomnia: Only if I drink cawwwfee aftuh 8 pm
Job title: Physics teacher/technology coordinator/summer school director
Kids: Son, 16, daughter, 20, two stepsons, aged 31 and 26.
Living arrangements: Downtown apartment adjacent to workplace.
Most admirable traits: Patience and optimism
Not going to cop to: Sigh. Country-western music
Phobias: None that I know of.
Quote: The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. -- FDR, 1941
Religion: Quaker
Siblings: None -- I'm an only child.
Time I wake up: 7 am most weekdays, 8 or 9 am most weekends
Unusual talent or skill: I can whistle in tune, and do a mean impression of a chimpanzee.
Vegetable I love: green peas
Worst habit: Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday -- archy the cockroach, 1927
X-rays: Dentals only
Yummy foods I make: Choc chip cookies, pancakes, chili, curries
Zodiac sign: Eww. I teach astronomy. My astrological sign is ostensibly Aquarius, but because of precession, it's really Capricorn.
"...epidemiologist/lab rat..."
Umm, that juxtaposition is a little alarming... Also, my cat would lick your dog... 's ears. ;-)
OK, me too. Since I love Tara's blog and am likely to comment now and again.
(BTW, this asks for my TypeKey identity, but TypeKey says you haven't signed up for it. Strange!)
Accent: Educated northeastern American.
Booze: Good beer (which excludes all major US brewers) and the occasional single malt.
Chore I Hate: Dusting/Vaccuuming
Dog or Cat: Currently neither, but have had several cats, mainly Siamese.
Essential Electronics: Macintosh computer.
Favorite Cologne: Bay rum.
Gold or Silver: Silver
Hometown: Born in Pittsburgh, PA, grew up in rural eastern PA and urban North Jersey.
Insomnia: Seldom, easily curable with a glass of red wine.
Job Title: Retired medical librarian and database designer/analyst, dad, incipient grandfather.
Kids: One brilliant daughter, age 30.
Living arrangements: Old farmhouse in northeast NY, fighting encroaching suburbia.
Most admirable traits: A good listener.
Not going to cop to: I'm not religious, but I love singing gospel harmony.
Overnight hospital stays: None. Numerous out-patient experiences.
Phobias: None that come to mind.
Quote: "I'm old enough to know better, too old to care." -- song lyric by Brian Bedford of Artisan
Religion: Brought up liberal protestant, don't see much sense in any religion now.
Siblings: 1 brother, 4 1/2 years younger, who looks and acts older than I do.
Time I wake up: 6 1/2 hours after I go to bed, whenever that may be.
Unusual talent or skill: Flavor imagination -- I can quite accurately imagine what a new combination of ingredients will taste like, and invent new recipes all the time.
Vegetable I love: Onions of all kinds, asparagus.
Worst habit: Procrastination (which should be obvious by the mere fact that I too am filling this out).
X-rays: Dental, chest, elbow, wrist, finger, toes.
Yummy foods I make: Famous for my soups and stews. My chili, which contains no tomato, won the "people's choice" award in a cookoff.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
A friend of mine currently teaches 4th grade at Wilson Vance. And the RCA plant is actually the one I describe working at in this post (when it was Harris; not sure if it went directly from RCA-->Harris or if there were other owners in the interim).
Obviously I can't speak of how Findlay was in '72-'76, but it's definitely more diverse nowadays. Definitely still WASP-dominated, but diversity is increasing.
Thanks--I'll check that out. Should be signed up...
Funny how several of you mention country music too. :)
Harris was part of a multi-step mess. First it was RCA; then GE bought RCA and gutted it. The remnants were mostly sold to Harris; and then fairly recently, most of what remained of the old RCA operations in NJ and Ohio was spun off into an operation called Intersil. Not sure, but I think the Harris plan in Findlay is now Intersil.
Back when I lived in Findlay, my family was the *only* Jewish family in town. (Although everyone insisted that there was another one - they knew them because they went to their church. Apparently, they had a Jewish grandparent, so to the Findlay-ites of the time, that made them Jewish.) There were *no* black people in town; one family with adopted Korean kids moved there the same time we did, and left within a year. It was by far the most homogeneous place I've ever been.
Just an amusing example of what it was like. This is absolutely true - to this day, I don't know whether the person in the story was being stupid but honest, or maliciously playing dumb: the first time my mother had her hair cut in Findlay, the woman who did it told her, after she was done "They did a great job removing your horns, I can barely see the scars."