Showers of flowers bloom by the hours,
The bees are having a ball,
Spring is here, the sky is clear,
The flowers are dancing, all.
All of the gloomy days are gone,
Our friend the sun has come for fun!

                                     -- Mrs. Hentschel's 2nd graders, 1969

411 responses total.

#1 (I think)

Yeah, but who's counting?

Three. (prime.)

        For you all, I am Tim Ryan.  I should be an 
employed computer programer, but am still out of work 
right now.  I like bbses, re-discovering usenet and 
using it to expand my enjoyment of music.

Answer your question, Joe?

Except it snowed yesterday.

Lucky #7, I think... unless someone sneaks in before I get a chance to 
post this.

For an intro, I'm Anne. (That good enough?)

It's early.  I don't think I've got anything more coherent to say than...
...eight!

Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...

I think 10 is a record fo r me......:)

Gahh!  How'd it get to be spring already?

Number twelve.

Hello, everyone! (:

It spring already? 

Well, I'm sitting here looking out of the window of one of my houses and 
I'm thinking, "if this is spring, that must not be snow."

Besides being the proud owner of two houses, I am also the proud father 
of one child.  I hope the house count will decrement and the child count 
will increment very soon.

I work as a freelance contract programmer.  I try to help out with my 
parents and sister, none of whom are quite as independent as they used to 
be.

In my spare time, I dance with the Bolshoi Ballet, program AI Gods on 
quantum super computers, and direct major motion pictures.  My spare time 
activities used to be more mundane, but since I haven't got any spare 
time these days anyway, I've decided to jazz them up a bit.

I'm Julie.  My husband and I are expecting our first child in roughly 
seven weeks or so.  I am anxious and am already packing the labor bag, 
piece by piece.  I'm glad that Agora got restarted.  I was starting to 
get a headache trying to read thru 350 items or so.

I'm Megan, and I'm not expecting an children at all.  Well, I've been
logging on a few times a day to see if Valerie has given birth yet, but it's
not quite the same.

I cook, I eat, listen to music, crosstitch, and try not to get mauled by my
cat.

hiii megan u  don't wanna child :)) k?/ have u  boyfriend dear

17!!!  I'm prime!!

I'm Anna, and I'm a math major at MSU, and at the moment the prime
factorization of my age is 3 and 7.

19. When I was 19 I could legally drink alcohol.  That did not remain true
(I turned illegal when I was 20 and legal again at 21).

abdi snuck in and took my 17!!

<extended lower lip>

Remmers is my name, and Grexing is my game.

22.  Well it's the sum of two identical primes.

Hi.  Poobah here.  Welcome to spring.  23.  :)

Re 5:  Yeah, it does:  too many. ;)

At least I got the first prime response this go-round.

phew! spring has arrived! <brrrrr .. except in here>
  
1/4 of the way to 100!!

My name is Bruce and I am arried to Anderyn. WE are expecting our first
grandchild this week.  How can I be a grandparent when I don't even know what
I want to do when I grow up?  I need a new job.

how do I enter a conf room like books?

I'm Sarah, and I've been on Grex since my eighteenth birthday (1/9/95).  I
live in Kalamazoo, MI, and I'm delivering pizzas while I wait for my editing
job to come back to me (any day now, I'll be editing from home...yay!)

I'm going back to school at WMU this Fall, hopefully.  I have an English major
and a Medieval Studies minor.

I have two cats, Gomez and Morticia, and one man (Dave).

In Picospan, type "join books" at the OK: Prompt.

In Backtalk, click on the "entrance" button to return to the entrance,
and then either type "books" in the "goto conference" box or click the
"Conf List" button and select "books" off that list.

In either case, you might eventually want to put all your favorite 
conferences on your "hotlist" (Backtalk) or in your ".cflist" file 
(Picospan).  Then you can go through all your favorite conferences in 
order without having to do it manually, using the "next" command 
(Picospan) or "Next Conf" button (Backtalk).

I almost forgot to mention.  I live in Yakima in the great state of 
Washington.  :)

yep, land of Washington apples and Squirt soda (it was invented here).

I'm Jonathan, Julie's husband, and a very excited father-to-be.

I am virtually a nobody when it comes to work.  I do maintenance for 
our local Toys R Us, and help guests on the side.  I went through 
Central Washington University's education department as a Elementary 
Education/Music Education double major, but stalled out on the latter 
first, and the former next as they eventually kicked me out of student 
teaching.  Hit a lot of political snafus and such.

Music is still a great love.  Julie will always be my main lady, but 
then there's my guitar.  I took up classical studies when I 
transferred to CWU.  Don't let remmers fool you-- he's quite the 
ragtime musician on the side, and worked with some material I composed 
when I came to visit.  (Sadly, it never got written down.)  Anyway, I 
hope to continue with my guitar studies, although I have training in 
brass, keyboard instruments, strings, and a little bit of percussion 
(as a music student, of course).

I suppose, really, that I am someone of many hidden talents, and I'm 
figuring out how best to serve the community with them.

<knows WAY too much about political snafus in music school>

I auditioned for the school of music 4 times, and only got in on the first
try.  :)

I got in on horn freshman year, and that was fine until i had a chop injury
that left me unable to play horn, if not forever than for at least the
forseeable future.  So, having a bit of high school experience in choir, I
decided to switch to voice.

Since the voice department was feeling dumped on (switching from an instrument
to voice had been getting popular), they resented people switching to voice.
After 6 months of voice lessons I auditioned, it wasn't so great, they told
me to try again, and I did.  I auditioned again, no success.

Decided to switch to math.  In the process, picked up my advising folder. 
They seemed reluctant to give it to me in the music office, so I went out to
the lobby and read every page.  In it (along with every recommendation I'd
ever gotten, which were interesting to read), was the audition write up from
the second audition.

Know what it said?  Nothing about my voice, or anything musical.  It said
something to the effect of, "though we sympathize with the applicant, we don't
think she has the personality to be a choral music teacher".

So I'm a math major now.  The end.  :)

Is there only one kind of personality who can be a choral music teacher? 
And is that the only reason to go to music school and study voice?  Sheesh.

I am Rick from Amsterdam the Netherlands.
I have been on Grex since 1994 or something.
Don't ask me how a Dutch man got on Grex.
I am here and that's what matters.
I have made a couple friends here and have visited A2 on accosion.
Last September 11th some crazed fanatic prevented me from visiting a 
third time. That still has to be arranged.
Maybe this year if my finances allow me and I'd be welcome to make an 
appeal to hospitality.
What else?
I am an alleged novelist and vivid webhost. I like to ride my racing 
bike and road climb steep mountain slopes in Europe.

re 32 and 33:  I should add that the music ed faculty here has been
tremendously supportive of me, having endless discussions in office hours
about everything from career direction to teacher certification to subject
area tests to Gordon certification to loaning me copies of their student's
dissertations and discussing them with me.

I also currently teach in an outreach program for the early childhood music
program at MSU's Community Music School, and clearly that could never have
happened without Dr. Taggart's support.

Hello huys I'm ven.  I joined to this grex account after a longtime i.e., 3
yrs....
really happy to see u guys all again?

resp:32  but it was political snafus in the *education* dept., not the 
music department.  It is shameful, because Central Washington 
University bills itself as a teaching school, and yet, the Education 
department is fraught with problems.  Many opt to get certification at 
Heritage College instead.

When I got alumni material, I wanted to scream.  I cannot be proud of 
that sickeningly sub-standard school that caters to bored rich kids 
whose mummies and daddies sent them there instead of a Seattle 
university, whose business department is better than their education 
department, whose professors are paid comparatively the lowest in 
Washington State, who cannot spend wisely, whose music department is 
of high quality but has to fill an aged building to twice its capacity 
because the university and state can't approve plans for a new one, 
etc., etc., etc.

        i'm carrie.

I've always thought Carrie was a wonderful name.  Maybe if Julie and I 
have more than one girl (first one is going to be Sarah Lynn), the 
next will be Carrie Ann or something like that.

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