Chris Harris makes the excellent point that Time Magazine's selection of "you" (us, we, me, them) as their "Person of the Year" excludes our nation's teachers and students.

Time Didn't Mean "Me"

"When it comes to 'me' as a professional, the place where I spend the majority of my waking hours is rather not 'we.' Or, perhaps it is a bit too 'we' - but the 'we' that schools have created to mean 'us in the corner twiddling our thumbs and pretending that the Internet doesn’t exist.' See, for me, Facebook is forbidden. Second Life is shut down. Amazon reviews are avoided. Podcasts are against policy. Blogs are…well…banned just might not be strong enough of a word. The word that springs to mind is demonized. So how, then, could Time possibly have meant 'me' when they named 'you' as the person of the year?" [Infomancy]

Thanks to Liz Lawley and Amy Kearns for tagging me!

1. When I was four years old, my family lived in Athens (Greece, not Georgia) for a year. My Dad was there as a Fulbright Scholar, so the whole family went with. I have vague memories of going to preschool while there, and I was fluent enough in Greek that I was the translator between my parents and the landlord. Unfortunately, I didn't keep speaking Greek, so I forgot it. When I was 13, my Dad had a similar opportunity in Portugal, so my family lived there for three months (and spent another three months traveling to and fro). I learned some Portugese while there, but unfortunately forgot it.
2. Even though I am softspoken in general, I actually have an excuse because I have a paralyzed vocal cord. Happened about sixteen years ago, no one knows why. That's why if you book me to speak at an event, I will be very demanding about requiring a microphone.
3. When I was in 5th grade, I won an award from my classmates for telling the most stories about my brother. In the years since, I have accumulated even more stories about him, and I am happy to tell them at the drop of a hat.
4. In 1980, my grandmother took me to see the Village People and Gloria Gaynor in concert. Somewhere I still have the program, even though it became a day of disillusionment for me when I later found out they had lip-synched during the entire show. I was devastated.
5. I played the flute in grade school, even making it to first chair at one point. I'm sure you saw this coming - I stopped playing and promptly forgot how.

My turn to tag -
Ross Day (or here if he prefers), Chad Haefele, Chris Harris, Rick Roche, Kelli Staley - you're it!