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scg
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Meeting other InBetweeners
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Sep 24 18:34 UTC 1994 |
To better understand who we're conferencing with here, please tell us
about yourself. What are you interested in? What do you do in your spare
time? What drew you to Grex, and to this conference? What part of the
world do you live in? What else should we know about you?
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scg
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response 1 of 159:
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Sep 24 19:36 UTC 1994 |
I'm Steve. I have too many interests to list, but the main things
I spend time doing are playing with computers, biking, writing, and
teaching. I've been racing bikes for three years, Grexing for two years,
writing for school newspapers for four years, and teaching middle school
students for a little over a year. I also work as a "messenger" at the
Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, although a lot of
the stuff I do isn't really delivering messages. I live in Ann Arbor,
which is where Grex is.
Bike racing is the one thing I do that is competative. Most of
the time I really don't like competition, since I think a lot more can be
done if people are cooperating. People working together get a lot more
done than people working against eachother, I think. Still, despite all
the competition, bike racing does require a lot of working together, since
people do a lot better if they have help from teammates. Actually, I
haven't been doing enough riding this year, since I've been busy with
other things. I've been doing some racing when I've been feeling in good
enough shape, but I'm not doing nearly as well as I was last year, when
(the highlight of my racing career) I went to Nationals and got 41st in
the country in the 15-16 men's road race.
I write for The Communicator, which is the school newspaper at
Community High School in Ann Arbor, where I'm a senior. Last year I
mostly covered the school board, and will be doing that again this year if
I can find the time to go sit through their long boring meetings.
Actually, when you cut through the boring stuff, some rather interesting
things can happen at school board meetings, and that's what makes them
worth writing about. I hope my writing makes students more aware of the
decisions that are being made affecting them, so they can do something
about things they don't like.
Teaching is the thing I do that I like the most. Currently, I'm
advisor to a cschool newspaper at Webber Middle School in Detroit. It's
really fun to go in there and help people write things, and just great to
be able to see that they're learning something from it. Teaching middle
school is what I want to do professionally later in life.
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vishnu
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response 2 of 159:
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Sep 25 01:31 UTC 1994 |
I'm Vishy, Drew, Andrew, The Bringer-of-Fish.
I like. . . uh... i don't like people that
do the ... things like . . .
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vishnu
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response 3 of 159:
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Sep 25 01:35 UTC 1994 |
Ok. I want to change my fullname but that
thing is still broken. I somehow find a need on grex
to make my lines really short. I guess that's because
I can't ever think of much to say. By the way, I'm
just doing this now, cuz carson is in party with me
and I want to annoy him...
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vishnu
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response 4 of 159:
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Sep 25 01:40 UTC 1994 |
Ok. I'm andrew tillinghast. I'm 13 years old and I
go to Tappan Middle School. I don't like people who
don't like me because I'm young. I like skating (in-
line) a lot. I'm not as good as most of my friends,
but that's just because I'm a total weakling. I like
to write poetry, and draw stuff... I like Nirvana a
lot... Well ... lesse. Some people (especially those
at my school) would say I'm strange. I mean, I guess
that's expected when you continually dye, shave, cut,
pierce, and dress differently from most other people.
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facelift
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response 5 of 159:
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Sep 25 06:10 UTC 1994 |
Ok, I be alex. I like punk rock. People might think that because of
that they should feel threatened. Punk just has a bum rap.
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facelift
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response 6 of 159:
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Sep 25 06:25 UTC 1994 |
Sorry bout that.
Punks are just independant kids (AKA-brats)
I like to read a lot. Especially beat people (Kerouac, Ginsburg, Bur-
roughs) I think I would like to live a beat life. Travel around the country,
listen to a lot of jazz. Philosiphize with my friends, that would be cool.
I'm a struggling musician (If you could call it that. I know people
who don't consider what I do music) I'm in a band, but we're a new genre of
music, and no one has quite gotten used to theintensity of it yet around here
alas, we get no gigs. We do have a tape out though, but its not selling.
What else about myself? I have low self esteem, but that goes with
being a teenager nowadays. Oh yeah, I'm putting out an independant publicat-
ion as fast as I can get it out. Its been some sort of project of mine over
the summe.
er...summer.
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vishnu
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response 7 of 159:
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Sep 25 21:35 UTC 1994 |
Oh yeah. I like The Beats too
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anne
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response 8 of 159:
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Sep 26 02:43 UTC 1994 |
I'm Anne, a sophomore at U of M. I came to Grex cause Kami told me to, and
liked it so much that I stayed, started my own item in the old edition of
this conference, and now sunny and I have Oathbound.
Oh, I'm 19 years old, majoring in history and English.
I'm fearfully awaiting my phone bill (which should be large) and trying to
figure out how many times I can call Canada- and still keep the bill length
down to a reasonable ammount. <sigh>
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carson
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response 9 of 159:
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Sep 26 02:47 UTC 1994 |
what's in Canada besides hockey?
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eeyore
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response 10 of 159:
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Sep 26 02:52 UTC 1994 |
i am megan heberlein, a freshman at eastern michigan university, and the
original smart-ass. i listen to a lot of pink floyd, rush, yes, and the
like. i have no life due to full time work and school. i read when i get
the time, and grex then also. i will hopefully be switching to um or msu
next year, so that i can major in landscape architecture.
now if i can only get over my alergy of plants....
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gerund
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response 11 of 159:
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Sep 26 05:12 UTC 1994 |
I'm Gerund, and I'm just your average person.
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eeyore
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response 12 of 159:
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Sep 26 17:56 UTC 1994 |
like the son by (?) john hiatt
"ordinary, average, guy!"
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gidget
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response 13 of 159:
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Sep 26 22:20 UTC 1994 |
My real name is Craig Ludwiczak. I put "Peanut" at the end of my name because
an annoying little kid in me helth class lat year gave it to me. I like to Grex
because I can talk to people without them seeing what I look like, which is
really awesome. I like to take long bike rides to help clear my mind, and later
i life I hope to be a horror novelist. mainly, I just sit on my butt and listen
to music and read an occasional Dean R. Koontz novel. By the way, I'm a
sophomore at Alpena High School. Alpena is a little hole in the ground in
northern Michigan if you are wondering.
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anne
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response 14 of 159:
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Sep 26 22:33 UTC 1994 |
re #9 - carson- Jason is in Canada
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facelift
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response 15 of 159:
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Sep 26 23:45 UTC 1994 |
Yeah, vish, you have to like Beat people, your related to Julia.
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swa
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response 16 of 159:
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Oct 3 16:43 UTC 1994 |
I'm Sara, and I'm really lousy at describing myself.
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dang
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response 17 of 159:
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Oct 3 17:44 UTC 1994 |
I'm Dan, and I forget if I described myself or not, and I'm too lazy to
look.
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carson
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response 18 of 159:
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Oct 3 18:58 UTC 1994 |
I'm Carson. I'm currently a FW here. I'm only 19, but I feel like I'm
going on 30. I waffle between friendliness and antagonism, depending on
my mood and my social life.
This is my last week at my primary job. I haven't found a new job yet,
but I haven't really needed to look for one yet. Instead, I'm looking
forward to a month off. I'm planning to go see and do all the things I
wish I'd had time for in high school now while I still can.
I've lived on my own twice now. The first time was a miserable but
formative experiment. It's very humbling to move back in with one's
parents on one's 18th birthday. Fortunately, I've learned from that
experience, and am doing much better now. I'm both more financially
aware and more socially adept. To put it simply, I'm a better person
now.
I helped come up with the concept of the InBetween conference, and
was a FW when the first version began in late January. Along with
Steve, my partner in binaries, we've guided the conference through
a name change and a restart, not to mention endless drift and
sporadic flaming.
I also helped develop the Scruples conference, and currently FW that
conference with Greg (canis) and Justin (jwp), although I'm planning
to retire from that duty soon. I've recently become a FW of melvin
and will soon be a co-FW of IQ with Zack (ziggy).
I'm planning to restart my educational career at Washtenaw
Community College this winter, and plan to "transfer" to the
University of Evansville in the fall. My studies will be in the
area of political science and foreign language (Spanish and French).
My current thing in life is to live each day as it comes, moving
closer, yet patiently towards the goals I've set for myself. I also
try to learn something from everything that I do and observe, and
to remember that which I had learned before.
I hope to use this conference as a guide and as a support. I think that,
as a conference, InBetween will attract more people who are closer to
childhood than adulthood, but I don't think that translates directly to
unintelligent and immature conversation. I'd like to see more people who
have already completed the transition to share their experiences here, and
for that reason I try to link items here every once in a while.
Growing up is a lot like gymnastics. It's an individual effort, but
there's a lot of team support. I hope that you all can find that here.
Go team go. ;)
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eeyore
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response 19 of 159:
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Oct 4 12:25 UTC 1994 |
i am impressed! i think that you deffinately win the most comprehensive
bio award!
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anne
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response 20 of 159:
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Oct 4 16:56 UTC 1994 |
uh, wow...
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eeyore
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response 21 of 159:
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Oct 4 18:20 UTC 1994 |
that was sorta my opinion...
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facelift
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response 22 of 159:
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Oct 6 02:21 UTC 1994 |
I'm going to describe myself again.
I'm alex. I'm the same alex I was a few weeks ago.
We're all empty, and we'll all keep on being positive and negative forces
after we're dead.
Thank you.
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eeyore
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response 23 of 159:
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Oct 6 22:38 UTC 1994 |
yup. i'm still meg.
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anne
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response 24 of 159:
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Oct 7 02:51 UTC 1994 |
i do believe I am still anne, I am rather ill at the moment, but still Anne
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