The nitty gritty details about ~Mari~ 

Age	V MCMLIV
Height/Weight	5'4" 5'5", 120 130 lbs.  (I'm American, I don't do metric... but I guess I'll have to learn).  Long legs gives the appearance of being much taller (actually, I must have grown because I'm 5'5" now).
Hair	Dark Brown and well-earned grey hair, long because I'm too lazy to go to the beauty parlor
Eyes	Green
Memberships	MCP, DNRC, NYS TESOL, WRP (Witness Relocation Program)
Education	M.A. Linguistics, B.A. Psychology/Anthropology, H.S. none
Jobs	A lot:  programmer, web designer, desktop publishing & design, teacher (ESL, computers, journalism), sign painter, governess, crew (yachts 64 ft.+), stock transfer, tech manual writer (plain English), etc.
Hobbies	Computers, filet crochet, origami, collecting Tarot cards, TheSims, playing Spite and Malice, golf
Interests	Computers, metaphysics, metamorphous, linguistics, origami, trying to understand Swedes.
Married/Children	No/No (not that I know of)   Yes/No  No/No Last wedding:   ~Wedding at Långholm Prison~ (Well it's funny, so I'm keeping the page -2nd marriage.)
Favorite ex-husbands	Al, Janne (R.I.P.), Rich
Computer &  Equipment	HP Media Center duo-processor, Dell Dimension 8200, Dell Dimension XPS R400. Finally got that notebook: HP's OmniBook 4150 and it's already obsolete.
Current Environment	Long Island, New York
Previous places where I've lived	Born in New York, grew up in various towns on Long Island, lived in Arizona, California, Florida, Egypt, Sweden...
Where I've been  (and stayed)	Denmark, Germany, Holland, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico (home of chupacabra), some islands, lots of states in the USA.
Where I was	Sayville: a small community on a long island, named as the friendliest town on Long Island, NY, in a white house w/blue shutters, one bedroom, one computer room.
Languages	English, Spanish, Egyptian dialect of Arabic (mostly forgotten), Working on Swedish (Tala inte så fort!), Body (fluent), Visual Basic v.6
Sister/Brothers	Zero/Four
Current Animals	1 bi-color Persian (Excalibur), 1 Himalayan (Canela)  = Sadly, we had to part ways. I couldn't get them through Swedish customs. Excalibur is bilingual Spanish/English, does tricks and thinks he is a dog. Canela just sits around and looks pretty =  This is their link. I really miss them.
Favorite books	Illusions by Richard Bach, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Dr. Seuss, etc.
Favorite movies	Good B-movies, Kelly's Heroes, Audrey Rose, Harvey, Nightlife (great vampire movie), Magnolia, Army of Darkness
Favorite TV	LEXX, Chris Isaak Show, Monk, Arkiv X (X-Files), Pretender, Sliders, Lost, Dr. Who (again)
Famous people  I'd like to meet	Steven King, Bill & Melinda Gates, Sting  (That would be a weird party.)
Music	From Alman Brothers to Led Zeppelin, ELO, Moody Blues, Salsa, Rocia Jurado, some Jazz, Blue Grass, New Rock, Gypsy Kings, and classics like Mozart, Beethoven and others. Music should fit the mood and the moment.
Favorite whisky	Jagermeister  (Thanks to everyone, including Magnus, for pointing out that this isn't whiskey. Have since switched to Barcardi's dark rum.)
Military career	1980 or 81? Flashed the SS America in a bikini (from the shore) as it went through the Suez Canal, was rewarded with a nightshirt, and a case of hotdogs.

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