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Name: Stephanie
Birthday: 8/4/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: beautiful music, tulips, autumn, traveling, writing, laughing, drinking tea, feeling the cool breeze on a warm summer night
Occupation: recent college graduate
Industry: Hospitality
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AIM:  supersl84
Member Since:
11/25/2002
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| Gchat Conversation 10/09/08:
me: if u were to describe me to someone
what would u say
Marcus: is this going to get me in trouble?
oh
just describe
not "one word"
which would be gu's kind of question.
me: haha yeah just describe
and u can be honest
u dont have to go into depth...just a brief description
Marcus: mm
Marcus: kind, empathetic
athletic
noncommital
enthusiastic
me: haha noncommital
Marcus: mm
one who speaks openly. usually.
me: haha ok
"usually"
do u feel i sometimes don't speak openly
Marcus: sometimes i feel there are things you think or feel but you don't say directly.
or that you don't want to say.
id unno. maybe not.
gregarious
me: hmm yea thats probably true
haha gregarious! you totally thought i talked too much that first time didnt u
Marcus: no
me: i should've just turned up the music
haha
Marcus: no no
i was pleasantly surprised we were able to have a decent conversation.
me: yeah
thats good
despite my scary driving
Marcus: even though you probably supplied 70% of the words
me: pffbtththth
hahah
Marcus: oh, and i forgot to add "various phobias"
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| It's been fun watching the Olympics in Beijing this year. It has also been fun reading things written/said in Chinese translated back to English. Oh Chinese people...who knew we were so funny/witty?
The New York Times has an article, "China Loves Its Soccer. Its Team? Don’t Ask."
QINHUANGDAO, China — The kick in the groin was the low point of the Olympic Games for hundreds of millions of Chinese sports fans.
It came 52 minutes into the China-Belgium men’s soccer match Sunday when a Chinese player, Tan Wangsong, having just missed the ball, swung his foot straight into the private parts of a Belgian player, Sébastien Pocognoli, leaving him writhing in pain on the field. The kick resulted in the game’s first red card and automatic ejection. The second, 12 minutes later, was charged to the Chinese team captain, Zheng Zhi, for elbowing an opposing player.
As usual, jokes about the Chinese team fanned across the Internet: “The Chinese team just won two red medals.” “Our soccer team won the gold medal in martial arts.” “China has had a weird year, with a freak snowstorm, the Tibetan riots and an earthquake, but the performance of our soccer team shows that some things never change.”
Soccer may be the sport the Chinese care about above all else, but it is also the one that most frustrates and disappoints them. The men's national and Olympic teams are the objects of scorn, shame and much hand-wringing.
For Chinese men proud of international sports stars like Yao Ming in basketball and the hurdler Liu Xiang, the soccer team endures as the ultimate symbol of humiliation. After the Chinese women’s soccer team beat Argentina, 2-0, on Tuesday, its coach, Shang Ruihua, said, “Our strikers did such a great job that I even told them they should start playing for our men’s team now.”
Chinese leaders generally try to silence widespread criticism of national symbols, but with men’s soccer, the government allows people to vent.
Li, the Chinese captain, faced dozens of disappointed Chinese reporters after the game.
“The Chinese people have intense wishes for a strong Chinese team, but we need more tolerance and time,” he said. “Like you, we also want to improve, to make a change.”
His dejected look said that perhaps he had taken to heart a common assessment of the team by Chinese fans: “There are two things stopping the Chinese soccer team from going outside Asia to take part in international games: their left feet and their right feet.”
Hahahah
CLASSIC.
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| It's time for healing, time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
All I can do is surrender
Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos, somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly
Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Revaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow your will
or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is you want from me
I give everything I surrender...
Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to to release all my held back tears
Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life, something heavenly
Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This something bigger than me
Larger than life, something heavenly
Something heavenly
It's time to face up
Clean this old house
Time breathe in and let everything out
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| So as I’m sitting here at my desk, reading an issue of Nation’s Restaurant News
(Ha, you know most people probably have People Magazine or Time Magazine at
their offices, but we have Hotel Business, Nation’s Restaurant News, Travel + Leisure,
and Food+Wine Magazines here). Anyway, I wanted to share this interesting article.
Is it true? Ha, who knows. But it’s interesting…
“Qdoba Mexican Grill, the Denver-based chain issued a news release about a
food personality study conducted on its behalf by Dr. Alan Hirsch, director of the
Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. The study involved
more than 2,500 adult men and women and showed that you can detect someone's
personality by the type of Mexican food he or she prefers.”
“’All of our behaviors reflect our underlying personalities,’ Hirsch said in a statement.
‘With Mexican food preferences, we were able to find a correlation between which
food people most enjoyed and what that meant about their underlying personality.’”
“The study looked at six menu items—taco, quesadilla, chips and salsa, burrito, taco salad
and nachos—and described the personality traits of diners who prefer specific items.”
Ok, so here it is:
“Customers who prefer tacos are conscientious and perfectionists. They make ideal workers
because they accomplish monumental tasks. They become so engrossed in their work that
they often sacrifice spending time with their families and friends.
“Quesadilla lovers are dependable and true friends and like being one of the crowd.
They’re loyal followers, but not leaders. They work behind the scenes for other employees
or family members.”
“Chips and salsa folks are aggressive, successful, achievement-oriented and natural leaders.
They can’t stand defeat, and they won’t take no for an answer. And talk about ambitious!”
“Burrito lovers are dramatic and love being the center of attention. They are seductive and flirtatious,
witty and charming, and easily bored with workday routines. They need novelty and excitement.”
“Diners who prefer taco salad are easygoing, well-adjusted and understanding.
They make a perfect spouse, parent, and ideal friend.”
“Nacho types are shy, quiet, and reserved, secure in their identity, self-sufficient
and most productive when they can work alone without interruption.”
Ok, so I have two very important questions/thoughts:
1) If I like all of the above mentioned foods and sometimes order more than one
at the same meal, what does that mean? Probably that I need to go on a diet, ha….
2) Since “diners who prefer taco salads make a perfect spouse.”, should I be walking
around Chipotle like a creeper and look for the guys eating taco salads? Hahaha
Happy Friday everybody!
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