Monday, October 24, 2005
Working Bio
I'm going to copy what Arlee Barr did on her blog site to tell people about herself. Arlee is an artist and quilt artist who was also in Susan Sorell's on-line farbic collage class where we learned how to make "potholders," as I started calling them... because they're about potholder size. I'll have to post some here, in case anyone shows up to ever read this stuff.
OK: Me
1. Born and raised in Calif., first in San Joaquin Valley in little farming town, Wasco, then over to the coast in another little town, Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara. I guess I still consider myself a Californian through and through, even tho' I haven't lived there for a long time (basically since we went off to Brasil) and even tho' I know things and its people have changed a LOT.
2. I've been married twice. First to Marshall from Oregon, who had webbed feet, I kid you not, but I was/am a better swimmer than him. We lived in Homestead, FL were he was the very first ecologist for Dade Co. I died there. Then I met Steve and it was like we were soul mates. We lived together for 19 years before actually getting married, and now we've been together, with a couple of breakups here and there, for -- eek!!!-- 35 years!!!! We've lived in the Bay Area, in Ithaca, NY, in Brasil, in Florida, for almost 20 years, and now in Silver Spring, MD, just outside the DC border.
3. I've spent a lot of time overseas, both traveling and living. I consider myself extremely fortunate for that. i was an exchange student to France for a summer, living with a family in Nice. I was an exchange student my junior year in college to Marburg, Germany, for a year.
I wasn;t going to apply to the program in college because I had already been to france and thought someone else should have the opportunity, but my parents (fortunately) thought I was crazy and drove ne right back down to LVC (La Verne College) to apply. And then after that, I thought again I would never again have to opportunity to go to Europe, but Steve had a chance to be a tour guide for a man whose tour he had taken in college... Lutnick, out of Queens College. Lutnick was expanding, and he was hiring people who had taken his first tours. Steve was offered the job, and I really really really wanted him to take it, but I thought that if I showed how very eager I was to go that it wouldn't work out or something. So I played down my frothing at the mouth. But we did go, and maybe it was an advantage to Lutnick because I had been there before too, and had spent even more time in Europe than Steve had. And then for many years, Steve took a lot of consulting jobs overseas, and often I was able to go along. So I've been back to Paris more times than I can count. I love Paris. When we first moved here, to DC, I would say that I knew the Paris metro system better than the DC system.
We've been to Bangkok and Thailand twice, and I would go ag ain at the drop of a hat. It's so exotic and different, even if Bangkok is hot and humid and traffic there does not move.
I've been all over most of Europe, trips around France, Switzerland, England, Germany, Austria, lived in Italy for 6 months, Portugal, some of Spain, and now we've been to Prague. Never been to Scotland or Ireland. Visited Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Not Finland. Marshall (1st husband) is Finnish, well, Finnish background... Escola. Then we were in Indonesia, Bali, Japan. and Kauai. Canada -- Vancouver, Victoria, Banff, Lake Louise, Toronto, Quebec, Montreal. Then of course, there's South America... two, well, about 3 years total in Brasil... 2 years in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, then Salavador twice for 6 months. Have visited Lima, Macchu Picchu, Cali, Columbia, Caracas. Been on a couple of Caribbean islands.... Most recently, the Caymans... clearest water I've ever seen, and before that, Martinique and Barbados. I wish Steve were the cruise taking type. I'd love to do that sometime.
OK: Me
1. Born and raised in Calif., first in San Joaquin Valley in little farming town, Wasco, then over to the coast in another little town, Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara. I guess I still consider myself a Californian through and through, even tho' I haven't lived there for a long time (basically since we went off to Brasil) and even tho' I know things and its people have changed a LOT.
2. I've been married twice. First to Marshall from Oregon, who had webbed feet, I kid you not, but I was/am a better swimmer than him. We lived in Homestead, FL were he was the very first ecologist for Dade Co. I died there. Then I met Steve and it was like we were soul mates. We lived together for 19 years before actually getting married, and now we've been together, with a couple of breakups here and there, for -- eek!!!-- 35 years!!!! We've lived in the Bay Area, in Ithaca, NY, in Brasil, in Florida, for almost 20 years, and now in Silver Spring, MD, just outside the DC border.
3. I've spent a lot of time overseas, both traveling and living. I consider myself extremely fortunate for that. i was an exchange student to France for a summer, living with a family in Nice. I was an exchange student my junior year in college to Marburg, Germany, for a year.
I wasn;t going to apply to the program in college because I had already been to france and thought someone else should have the opportunity, but my parents (fortunately) thought I was crazy and drove ne right back down to LVC (La Verne College) to apply. And then after that, I thought again I would never again have to opportunity to go to Europe, but Steve had a chance to be a tour guide for a man whose tour he had taken in college... Lutnick, out of Queens College. Lutnick was expanding, and he was hiring people who had taken his first tours. Steve was offered the job, and I really really really wanted him to take it, but I thought that if I showed how very eager I was to go that it wouldn't work out or something. So I played down my frothing at the mouth. But we did go, and maybe it was an advantage to Lutnick because I had been there before too, and had spent even more time in Europe than Steve had. And then for many years, Steve took a lot of consulting jobs overseas, and often I was able to go along. So I've been back to Paris more times than I can count. I love Paris. When we first moved here, to DC, I would say that I knew the Paris metro system better than the DC system.
We've been to Bangkok and Thailand twice, and I would go ag ain at the drop of a hat. It's so exotic and different, even if Bangkok is hot and humid and traffic there does not move.
I've been all over most of Europe, trips around France, Switzerland, England, Germany, Austria, lived in Italy for 6 months, Portugal, some of Spain, and now we've been to Prague. Never been to Scotland or Ireland. Visited Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Not Finland. Marshall (1st husband) is Finnish, well, Finnish background... Escola. Then we were in Indonesia, Bali, Japan. and Kauai. Canada -- Vancouver, Victoria, Banff, Lake Louise, Toronto, Quebec, Montreal. Then of course, there's South America... two, well, about 3 years total in Brasil... 2 years in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, then Salavador twice for 6 months. Have visited Lima, Macchu Picchu, Cali, Columbia, Caracas. Been on a couple of Caribbean islands.... Most recently, the Caymans... clearest water I've ever seen, and before that, Martinique and Barbados. I wish Steve were the cruise taking type. I'd love to do that sometime.
# posted by Zanny @ 1:23 AM 
