Member spotlight for week starting 27/03/06 lionessrampant

Welcome to the spotlight!!!! Here are your 1st few questions.

What did you do on the weekend?

Other then their real names, what nicknames do you call your cats?

What is your dream job?

If you could visit any 1 place in the world, where would you go?

If you found a genie in a bottle what would your 3 wishes be?

What time do you get up in the morning?
Ok - that is all for now - enjoy the spotlight!

Well, here are my questions

1. What is your favourite piece of furniture in your house (including china, curtains, flowerpots etc.)?

2. What person would you love to meet and why?

3. What is your favourite smell/taste?

4. If money didn't matter, where would you like to live...?

5. ...and which car would you like to drive?

Have fun with these!

Congrats!!!

What is your favorite word?

What is your least favorite word?

What is your favorite sound?

What is your least favorite sound?

What would you consider to be the worst job ever?

What makes you laugh?

What makes you cry?

What is one thing that you wish you knew how to do?

What is the last single thing you bought that cost more than $100?

Would you rather be on hold for 5 min before reaching a live person, or go through 5 minutes of voice prompts before reaching a live person?

What was the most important thing your mother taught you?

What show from the past would you like to see back on television?

What was your first car?

What was your most embarrassing moment?

What is your earliest memory?

What is the name of your first pet?

Are you shy or outgoing?

Can you play a musical instrument?

Congrats on the spotlight!!!!!!!

1. Which is your favorite smilie?
2. Do you prefer a gas or charcoal grill?
3. Do you believe in an afterlife?
4. What color is your hair?
5. How long does it take for you to get ready in the mornings?
6. Do you go to the tanning bed?
7. Do you follow politics and world events in relation to them?
8. What would be the first 3 things you would do with the money if you won the lottery?
9. Do you bite your nails?
10. Do you get road rage?
11. What is your biggest pet peeve?
12. Are you superstitious?
13. What is your favorite fruit?

Welcome to the spotlight!!!! Here are your 1st few questions.

What did you do on the weekend?
Let's see....I spent most of it practicing for my lesson tomorrow, I went out and picked Ian up (he had been in Colorado skiing) and I went out to brunch with friends yesterday...not too exciting!

Other then their real names, what nicknames do you call your cats?
Leo: Baby, Babykitty, Big guy, Kittypants!
Gracie: Spacey, Grace-o, Space-o, Sweetie, Muffin, Muffin Tin
Raphael: Stinky, Stinkypants, Stinkybutt, Raphie, Grandpa

What is your dream job?
I'd love to teach flute at University level

If you could visit any 1 place in the world, where would you go?
Probably to Italy to meet my family

If you found a genie in a bottle what would your 3 wishes be?
With no limitations? I'd want my dream job, an unlimited supply of money that I could use for a variety of purposes, many of them charitable and the end of war and violence.

What time do you get up in the morning?
7 AM

Ok - that is all for now - enjoy the spotlight!

Thanks!!!

What is your favorite word?
Foible..it just sounds so cool!

What is your least favorite word?
I can't type it here, but it's a detrimental reference to women.

What is your favorite sound?
A full symphony orchestra playing Mahler 9

What is your least favorite sound?
that Squealy metal on metal sound...ick!

What would you consider to be the worst job ever?
RETAIL. I'm terrible at it and the minutes take like 4 hours each to go by!

What makes you laugh?
A lot of things...I'm pretty easy to make laugh

What makes you cry?
When people or things get hurt, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, fights with people I'm close to, my major, losing auditions

What is one thing that you wish you knew how to do?
Roll my R's...seriously. It would be so awesome!

What is the last single thing you bought that cost more than $100?
A coach bag

Would you rather be on hold for 5 min before reaching a live person, or go through 5 minutes of voice prompts before reaching a live person?
I thin voice prompts...I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something!

What was the most important thing your mother taught you?
I think how to have self respect and self confidence. A lot of people my age totally lack that.

What show from the past would you like to see back on television?
Full House, but it's on Nick at Nite, so my wish is granted!

What was your first car?
1997 Dodge Intrepid

What was your most embarrassing moment?
I don't think there's one single moment that qualifies.

What is your earliest memory?
Dancing to Benny Goodman in our unfurnished living room

What is the name of your first pet?
Kleenex. I kid you not.

Are you shy or outgoing?
Defintiely outgoing!

Can you play a musical instrument?
Funny you should ask I play the flute for a living!

Congrats on the spotlight!!!!!!!
Why thank you!

1. Which is your favorite smilie?
This one: I use it a lot!

2. Do you prefer a gas or charcoal grill?
I don't know how to grill!

3. Do you believe in an afterlife?
Nope.

4. What color is your hair?
Sort of auburn-y

5. How long does it take for you to get ready in the mornings?
Half an hour to 45 minutes

6. Do you go to the tanning bed?
Nope...they scare me a little bit!

7. Do you follow politics and world events in relation to them?
Religiously.

8. What would be the first 3 things you would do with the money if you won the lottery?
Put enough away to live on comfortably for a while, buy my family some nice things, build a new facility for Tree House.

9. Do you bite your nails?
Nope

10. Do you get road rage?
Only when I'm in the burbs

11. What is your biggest pet peeve?
People who are LATE!

12. Are you superstitious?
Not particularly

13. What is your favorite fruit?
Raspberried!!

Keep em coming!

1. What is your favourite piece of furniture in your house (including china, curtains, flowerpots etc.)?
My bed

2. What person would you love to meet and why?
Jon Stewart is the first one who comes to mind...because he's funny and brilliant

3. What is your favourite smell/taste?
Smell? Ian. Taste? Something salty like...tomato juice!

4. If money didn't matter, where would you like to live...?
In a loft in this here city of Chicago! I love love love it here

5. ...and which car would you like to drive?
The one I drive is perfect for me...A Civic Hybrid

Are you having fun yet?

If you could only eat 1 food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Do you feel your age?

Other then furbabies, do you have any kids?

What made you choose the flute as your instrument of choice?

What is your favourite book?

What is your favourite song?

Are you having fun yet?
Definitely! You guys are awesome!

If you could only eat 1 food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Noodles of any kind. I LOVE noodles!

Do you feel your age?
No, I feel like I'm 30. Which considering that I'm 20 might not be a good thing!

Other then furbabies, do you have any kids?
Not yet. It's a possibility down the line, perhaps, if this flute thing ever settles down long enough for me to consider it!

What made you choose the flute as your instrument of choice?
My mom wouldn't let me play the drums and I couldn't get a sound out of the clarinet. So Mr. Ellman handed me a flute, I was the only kid who got a sound out of it on the first try and the rest is history!

What is your favourite book?
1984 by George Orwell

What is your favourite song?
Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones

How many and what types of animals would you have if $$ , time and facilities were no object???

Does playing flute pay the bills yet??

How many and what types of animals would you have if $$ , time and facilities were no object???
I'd have about 12 cats and 4 dogs and 4 horses. Which is roughly my plan for when I am filthy rich and retire to a farm to live out my days wildly spoiling animals! (yeah right)

Does playing flute pay the bills yet??
Not all of them! I'm not even done with my bachelor's so I don't sweat it...yet. I freelance here and there and I teach lessons, so in a good month, it's about half of my income and in a slow month it's about a third. I'd like to concentrate on studio teaching as a profession, so as far as the music industry goes, that's a pretty stable gig.

Have you ever been to the Oprah Show?

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Have you ever been to the Oprah Show?

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Nope! My mom has, though

Congrats!
Here's my question: How often do you clean out your inbox here at TCS?
(I already know you don't do it often, I've been trying to PM you! )

Originally Posted by menagerie mama

Congrats!
Here's my question: How often do you clean out your inbox here at TCS?

(I already know you don't do it often, I've been trying to PM you!

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Oops! I'll do that right.....NOW!

Shannon, to answer your question....I haven't cleaned it since December! But it's clean now. 50 new open slots waiting for those special little nuggets of TCS joy known as PM's!

1. Why did you choose your avatar?
2. What shampoo do you use?
3. Where do shop for groceries?
4. Do you use coupons?
5. What's the average amount of time you spend shopping for groceries?
6. Do you ever feel "off" when you play your flute?
7. How long have you played the flute?
8. How does listening to music make you feel?
9. How does playing music in front of others make you feel?
10. Do you ever listen to a play-back of your music?
11. How strongly do you feel a music program in schools are a benfefit?
12. Why do you think (if you do, and I imagine you do) children should learn to play an insturment?
13. Do you write your own music?

Oooh, good questions!!

1. Why did you choose your avatar?
Because of the lion...my favorite animal besides domestic cat and because my cats are all little lions

2. What shampoo do you use?
Avalon Organics

3. Where do shop for groceries?
Whole Foods or Trader Joe's

4. Do you use coupons?
Nope

5. What's the average amount of time you spend shopping for groceries?
Probably like a half an hour

6. Do you ever feel "off" when you play your flute?
Honey, that's the story of my life these past few weeks.

7. How long have you played the flute?
Since I was 8, so 12 years. I grew up with it.

8. How does listening to music make you feel?
I can't go anywhere or do anything without music. I'm listening to Andre Jolviet's Cinq Incantations pour flute seule right now

9. How does playing music in front of others make you feel?
Amazing. It gives me such a rush. I love doing it.

10. Do you ever listen to a play-back of your music?
I record myself practicing all the time. I tried to upload one of those recordings, but it wouldn't let me. Probably for the better...they are practice after all!

11. How strongly do you feel a music program in schools are a benfefit?
I wrote my capstone about it when I graduated from college prep HS! I think if every kid had to learn to appreciate music and had to learn to play an instrument we wouldn't have half the problems in education that we have today.

12. Why do you think (if you do, and I imagine you do) children should learn to play an insturment?
It teaches them how to work hard, be responsible, appreciate art, have the patience to appreciate classical music, it teaches them how to work as a team, it exposes kids to a talent they may have also!

13. Do you write your own music?
No, I tried my hand at it and there was no "spark" there. My best friend is a composer, though...I LOVE working with composers!! It's one of my favorite things to do. I'm playing on a concert in about a month with the work of all Latin composers who are living. It's been interesting. Mine's for flute and computer generated sounds.

And no, I'm not sure how I have time for flute and TCS. I sometimes feel guilty...like I should spend more time practicing and less on TCS, but I practice like 4 or 5 hours a day as it is! Part of it is that I entered school with so many college credits that I'm just barely a full time student. The "Old school" way of thinking is that I shouldn't have a life outside of flute and I should be thinking about it 24/7, but my gut instinct is that that can't be healthy...

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

The "Old school" way of thinking is that I shouldn't have a life outside of flute and I should be thinking about it 24/7, but my gut instinct is that that can't be healthy...

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TCS or anything else that you enjoy as "extra-curricular" should be a part of your life. You should never feel guilty about that, esp since you spend that many hours practicing. (You are due loads of respect for that in itself) I think you need that to be a well-balanced person, and that is a part of a healthy life! "all work and no play" blows!