A bit about moi:

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Portland, early 1980s:

Click here if you're like me and are a Leo too.  Mt. St. Helens - the signal of my future arrival and the world's impending doom!!   BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!  I went to overseas to Belgium for a year in high school.  It was neato, although those Belgians can be a little... odd.   (And they smell like cabbage.)
 
       I floundered for a few years after High School , working as a secretary and a waitress and other jobs.  I actually worked at a place in southern Oregon called Diamond Lake, which was very fun and two miles above sea level. (There was still snow there in parts in July.) It's about a twenty minute drive from Crater LakeIn fact, someone I drove up there with locked his keys in the car and it was getting dark... and cold... and stormy...  That's another story for another time though. 
 
       Joined the Navy in 2001 about two weeks before the infamous September 11.  (That was sort of an "oh crap" moment if you will.)  Still trying to figure out why I got married in 2002.  I finally last month got my maiden name back.  Ah well, hindsight is 20/20, or some such saying.  (Nicole Miller's website.  I've never met her but she was smart enough to dump El Josho de la Stupid.  You go girl.)  Now I'm a sailor in San Diego, CA.  Sun and ocean kick ass but sometimes I miss Portland (motto: "We don't tan, we mold.") I love when it rains here.  That's sarcasm if you weren't sure.  They should have Special Ed driving classes for Californians during rain.  It's SO much fun, whee.

       As of late I think I've found a reason to stay in southern California, and not just because Johnny Depp is my super-super-secret boyfriend, right behind Matt Damon.  It's not just because of school or sun or ocean... southern california is perfect except for two things, which unfortunately are very important: the traffic and the cost of living. Makes it tough to decide whether to leave or stay!  I guess I've become attached to a  group of people (Corvus Warband) who have snuck into my life and become a part of my family behind my back.
     
      I just got back from a trip to Africa (Kenya and Djibouti, pronounced "jah-booty"and I am now in Japan for two years.  I've been cosmically slapped in the face with the cold fish of culture shock.  That's okay.  I can swim.*
 
        Current plans include: B.A. in Humanities, M.D. (specialty?), and taking over the world.  In that order.  But it's so cliche these days, maybe I'll settle for my own small tropical island.  Or an island in the Phillipines.  They have over 7,000 (8,000 at low tide), they can spare me one.

*referring of course to the Monty Python skit where one guy is dancing back and forth slapping the other one in the face with a small fish, and the second guy takes out a huge fish and smacks him into a canal.  But I'm sure you knew that.

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MENTAL NOTE TO SELF:
They throw cups of beer and hawk loogies at Bloodhound Gang concerts.
Next time, buy balcony tickets.

Mental Note To Self:
Never marry a guy you meet in a strip club.  Again.