Good call, Pandy!

Most of what I said above still applies, except the Tim-the-mighty-fishie has since passed away, and is now of blessed memory.

1. My name is Jade

2. I love to snowboard, but i havent been in a while because the place where i go to…well basically there's a person who works there who pervs on my friend O.o so naturally me and my friends dont like him.

3. I'd love to become a marine biologist when i grow up

4. Futurama and Mythbusters are some of my favourite shows on telly

5. I have a mentalist dog and a hamster

6. I sadly have not attended a single gig…HOWEVER! i plan to go to the OK Go gig on July 25th with a good friend

7. I'm trying to teach myself to play the guitar in hopes to become as good as rusticles

8. I love to make baked goods

9. my cousin has five cats in her apartment

10. I spend way too much time on the computer when I'm supposed to be revising (like right now)

I find the image of you yelling to be a difficult one to believe, Hannah!  Also, Starship Enterprise FTW!  I totally would've done the exact same.

1. Once I just HAD to buy a box set of Dorothy Sayers paperbacks that I already own because I just couldn’t leave that set, all alone, unloved, in the used book store. I gave that set to the person who got me started on Dorothy Sayers in the first place.

2. I wanted to be a special effects make up person when I was younger.

3. I love funky colorful socks.

4. My favorite toy as a child was a little figure of Jerry the Mouse (of Tom and Jerry). I still have it.

5. One of the Facebook Flair buttons I made has 32,000 plus users. I said the sentence on it to a friend and thought it would make a good flair.

6. One of the million reasons I want to go to the UK is to hug a young Scottish YouTuber named Liam.

7. My favorite joke:
What is black and white and red all over and does not fit through a revolving door?
A nun with a spear through her head.

8. I sleep with a plush purple moose from Alaska named Moosie and a plush purple bear named V.B. (for Valentine Bear).

9. On my first NaNoWriMo last year I got to 12,000 words.

10. I saw "Fiddler on the Roof" with Topol in Chicago on his farewell tour.

violetchaos364 said:

1. Once I just HAD to buy a box set of Dorothy Sayers paperbacks that I already own because I just couldn’t leave that set, all alone, unloved, in the used book store. I gave that set to the person who got me started on Dorothy Sayers in the first place.

I understand that. I have copy after copy of the same books because I'll find them in a used book store and think they need to come home to a place where they will be loved. :)

Thanks Nova.

Welcome! We do seem to have a lot in common. My first crush wasn't Data, though. It was Elliot from E.T. quickly replaced by Luke Skywalker. I started crushing at a very early age and will probably never grow out of it.

You're not wrong, dear Cheeky Hobbit. Also, geek fans ARE the best fans – loyal and protective. =D  Creative geeks! Did you know that Andy is a programmer?

Good used bookstores are like crack to me. Maybe heroin.

Oh, and MacGyver for first crush. Oh, and Pippin's my fave hobbit.

So Comcast went out all over my area last night, right in the middle of editing someone's article (which means I never had an offline copy, so I lost all my work). It didn't come back until this morning, but while I was on hold before speaking to one of the most patronising service reps I've ever had the displeasure to speak to, I had plenty of time to compose a truly epic 10 things. Apologies in advance. I was bored, sleep-deprived and caffeinated (late-night editing sessions require Editorial Strength coffee!).

1) My name is Christel Adina.

2) My first crush may have been Keith Richards. Or Buck Owens from Hee Haw. Later I became more sensible in deciding where to place my affections, falling in love with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kermit the Frog, Paul McCartney, Spiderman, Carlos Santana and Tom Baker (my first Doctor!), in pretty much that order. Then I started school.

3) In grade school, a group of girls insisted I looked more like a Stephanie, and tried their best to make it stick. If you're wondering, I look nothing like a Stephanie.

4) In middle school, in Michigan, I was shoved down some stairs and later put in a locker by some very mean girls while I was on my way to get my class schedule (new kid). Apparently, I responded inappropriately when they cornered me. The head girl told me that their favourite band was Journey, and asked what music I liked. Always glad to share musical passions, I rather foolishly said, "I like The Beatles, The Stones, Prince, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, The Police, Billy Idol and Stray Cats." I was about to add, "and lots more, especially rockabilly and surf music" but I was interrupted by my failure to defy gravity. When they accosted me the next time, near the lockers, they made it clear that my answer should have been "I think Steve Perry is hot!" Wendy, the girl who came to my rescue by threatening each and every one of the bullies with the heel of the spiked shoes she'd stolen from her mother that morning, was nearly three years older than me and invited me to sleep-over at her house, where we bonded over thousands (I'm not exaggerating) of Smash Hits and Bop! pin-up posters, mostly the same 10 or so photos of Adam Ant.

5) I hate Journey.

6) I have been declared dead (time was called) at least 12 times. Once was when I had what they assume was TSS after a surgery on my hamstrings when I was 13. Since that time, I cannot play music anymore (not even basic melodies on a keyboard unless I do it several hours a day, every day. If I miss a day, I have to start all over), I cannot sing well (the prolonged fever fried my larynx, I'm told) and I no longer have a grasp of anything involving higher mathmatical concepts (just can't retain them enough to formulate or apply them).

7) I once got grounded (that time for, I think, taking the sleeves off a sweatshirt and making a glittery, graffitied, muscle-shirt as a prototype for one of my ideas about concert/artist clothing lines. My mother is of the sort who grounds you from everything for the most minor offense, and then gets pissed off hours or days later if you're not still crying, hurting, apologizing and penitent. I, on the other hand, am of the sort who gets upset for a while and then–in the absence of TV, music, phone, friends, school projects that aren't strictly academic (like drama performances or choir practice), dinner, access to the rest-of-the-house, etc.–does something else. Such as drawing a Prince-themed mural on my bedroom wall in Crayola marker! Obviously, I was grounded a lot. I was grounded a lot that day ! She made me scrub for 6 hours, all the while shrieking, "You did this on purpose!" ("Um, yeah…duh."), and "What are you, three? Marker doesn't come out! We RENT!" (Actually, marker does come out, after several hours of adolescent elbow grease is applied, of course. Sadly, it never occured to Mom that it was artistic expression and not a personal attack on her, or that when we moved, I'd paint over it anyway …).

8.) I have a degree in Magazine Journalism with a focus in Public Relations and Entertainment/Media writing. Apparently, this means nothing at the moment. Perhaps it never has. I was a much better writer before being "trained." My new business-model ideas for the next steps in the world of PR were too "out there" in the last decade, and I could never quite secure enough grant funding to prove them on my own. Now, they are being implemented by other people faster than I can catch up to the technology. I need more forward-thinking concepts. Like using Time Travel as a branding tool.  Before I acquiesed to J-school–in high school, for a couple years after, then on and off as my health and finances allowed–I was in the world's weirdest "Broadcast" degree programs (I wanted to be a sound engineer, and the only way to take audio production and engineering and recording courses where I lived involved enrolling in the Community College's Radio and Television Broadcasting sequences. Before that I studied what was then known as, simply, "Video Production" I remember very little of that one now (we made some very silly shorts and I had a news segment with alien puppets, but a lot of the technical info is gone), partially because of the issues in #6 and partially because it was in the early '80s (I should have been tested out of school because there weren't resources for me, but instead, I was sent to summer TAG camp at the University. That was cool though, playing chess and building RGMs and experimenting with mobius strips in additon to, often instead of, Calculus lessons is a great way to spend a summer break!).

9) I am overly wordy in every possible sense. Obviously. It comes from several obsessions coalescing. Allieration being one. Hamlet is another. I like the way a perfectly composed sentence can sound like a symphony if spoken aloud in just the right way. I think I unconsciously chase that meeting of music and message each time I open my mouth. And my mouth is almost always open! I am probably the worst interviewer in the world precisely because I'm actually interested. If I'm interested in what someone is saying to me, I have to join in and then I cannot shut up. It's not that I'm a bad listener, quite the contrary, in fact. I listen. And then I reply at lightening speed. I may be the most excitable "professional" in my field, which can be taken wrong. But it's because I am so honestly intrigued and usually invested in the art and the artist, that even calm I come over a chatty Cathy. Part of this can also be attributed to my possession of the elusive, little-known "Groupie Gene", but it's not helped much by my motor mouth. Or flying fingers. Sorry.

10) Upon first discovering OK Go, around the time of the first release (Support College Radio! Woohoo!), I solemnly forbade myself to become smitten. I said, "You must not love this band!" See, I knew instantly that these guys spelled more than "OK" and "Go" for a person like me. I knew I'd be powerless against people like Tim and Damian if I let them into my daily life, so I didn't let myself fall. I only listened to the songs and threw myself into other artists (which, incidentally, is one sure way a girl can end up alone in a dinky, isolated, desert hotel just off the Sandia reservation in New Mexico, with no ATM within wheeling distance and no money for the cash-only cabs to take her back to the airport. <— Yet another reason Albuquerque is only good for left turns.). Then, in 2005, I almost succumbed again. I mean, power chords, close harmonies and melodic bass lines, PLUS a guy named Damian (backstory withheld for personal reasons), singing a rhetorical retort to "Sympathy for the Devil? C'mon, give a girl a chance, will ya?? But I resisted for the most part. I discovered Okkervil River, and later moved to Austin (believe it or not, those two things were unrelated, at least initially) to drown in that drama for a while. And then about six months ago, I'm trapped back in Oregon and a friend, knowing my desperate emotional state at that time, my addiction to certain musical elements and our shared love of marching band helmets forwarded me the first This Too Shall Pass video. GAH! Still, I tried to be stoic. I'm stubborn, sure, but I swear I was thinking only of self-preservation. Then I heard the rest of the album. Direct hit, captain. Shields down. I was weakening for real this time, you know. And with the release of the RGM version, I had to admit I'd never really been able to deny OK Go at all. Years later, I finally came to terms with the truth that I have known in my heart from the very start:

Resistance is Futile.

First off let me say that I LOVE this thread!  I think it would be cool if some of our old hats (you know who you are) could come back here and give us an update. Some of the posts are bound to be out of date by now.

Please note that this list is not arranged in order of importance.

1. I am a gamer girl.  I play role-playing game and computer games and hang out in game stores.

2. I try hard not to be, but I am opinionated and loud.

3. I never shut up.

4. I love talking to and meeting new people.

5. I am creative and crafty and when I am not at some game store I am often at a craft store.

6. I love all kinds of music, but OK Go is my first real passion.

7. I am trying to get my psychology and education degrees so I can teach high school psychology.

8. I have never started so many sentences with "I" in a row in my life and it is starting to make me a bit uncomfortable.  :)

9. One of my favorite things in the world to do is listen to music (90% OK Go, but some other indie stuff) and play Bejeweled 2.

10. I also love hanging out with my husband (he is my best friend) and watching him play video games.  Video games as a spectator sport, how nerdy is that?