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Diane

I am here for Friends

About Me

After living in NY, NJ, AZ and CA, Austin, TX has been the place I have lived the longest as an adult! Can't say I'm proud to be from W's 'home' state nor have I adapted to the hellish summers. After teaching special and elem ed in those other states, I have taught 5th grade for 16 years here in TX. My husband teaches courses to masters' and Ph.D. candidates for Univ of Phoenix online. Our son turns 26 this year and works as a computer programmer for Microsoft in Seattle, where I WANT to live in the summers. Our daughter,23, is a caseworker for Travis Co. CASA and is enjoying her freedom in her first non-college apartment.

My Interests

travel (don't get to do it enough), revisiting upstate NY, gardening, movies, quilting, reading.

I'd like to meet:

someone in the current administration who has the average person's interests at heart and has the courage to stop mouthing the party line. I greatly admire the following people, but what would I say to them if I met them??? Ann Richards; Maya Angelou, Ruth Rendell; Nelson Mandela; Walter Cronkite; Gregory Peck; hmmmm...will have to think about this...

Music:

rock/pop, folk, musicals, and at least a few songs/artists from most genres...except heavy metal...

Movies:

too many to list! Bless the founders of Netflix!

Television:

CSI(but NOT Miami or NY!), Law and Order(s), Monk, Nip/Tuck, the Shield, Rescue Me, and of course, All My Children!

Books:

mystery, psychological (Ruth Rendell!!), American historical fiction/nonfiction/biographies many fine authors for young adults,

Heroes:

Do we really have anyone to look up to??