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| Everything you could possibly
want to know about me |
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could do without?) |
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| Full Name: |
Julia Lea Van Zanten Sjöberg (Julia L. V. Sjöberg, or
usually just Julia
Sjöberg) |
| Born: |
12 December, 1975 in Waconia, Minnesota at 3:19pm |
| Age: |
27 |
| Height: |
5 feet, 0 inches (that's 153cm for you metric freaks) |
| Zodiac Sign: |
Sagittarius |
| Blood Type: |
B positive |
| Parents: |
Mary and Harold |
| Siblings: |
Younger sister, Kristina (21);
older half-sister Stacy
(deceased) |
| Husband: |
Per Jonas Bertil Sjöberg |
| Ancestry: |
Primarily Dutch, German,
Austrian/Slovak, and Norwegian,
a smidgeon of English and some random others. (more
info on genealogy here) |
| Pets: |
I'm currently petless, but I have plans for slugs, hedgehogs and dogs
in the future. |
| Hometown: |
Mound, Minnesota, USA |
| Currently
Residing: |
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA |
| Occupation: |
I work as for the Eden Prairie branch of Hennepin County Libraries. My official title is LTA - Library Technical Assistant. |
| My External
Appearance: |
I am 5 feet tall, and I have blue eyes, a small nose,
pierced ears several times over, longish blond hair and a mouth which contains several
teeth. I also have 2 arms, 2 legs, several fingernails of varying length, and some
assorted birthmarks and scars. You probably would find me wearing a Sagittarius necklace,
an engagement band, a wedding band, a pair of jeans and a casual shirt. You would most
likely not find me wearing a dress unless I was attending a wedding or in one. Contrary to
popular belief (and, as noted above), I am not 14. |
| My Internal
Appearance: |
Really messy, I'm afraid. I'm fairly certain there is a variety of
bones of many sizes and shapes, quite an amount of blood, some muscles here and there,
several vital organs (and others only identifiable by a medical professional), and likely
some partially digested food, as well as an assortment of miscellaneous fluids swimming
around in there. (NOTE: I am merely making an educated guess of this description; I have
neither examined my body internally, nor do I recommend it to others.) Sorry, I don't have
any internal pictures of myself to share at this time, but you can be sure I
will put up
any I acquire in the future. |
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| Things I am(?)
ashamed to admit: |
- I've failed calculus.
- I still use Bonne Bell Lip Smackers.
- I actually own three Beanie Babies. I couldn't help it, honest.
Mom
gave me a hedgehog and a rhino and my grandma gave me another hedgehog!
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| The most
beautiful places I've ever visited: |
- the Oregon coast in July
- Innsbruck, Austria in January runs a close second - the Alps were
gorgeous! (Unfortunately, we got into a car accident there, so that spoiled the memory
somewhat.)
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| My biggest
fear: |
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| Famous persons
I've drooled over: |
- Brian Harper
- Javy Lopez
- Bobby Hurley
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| I
wish I were better at: |
- keeping up correspondence with my friends and family
- being able to talk about things when
I'm upset
- coming up with ideas for gifts for others
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| My dream job
would be: |
- a paleontologist (concentrating on prehistoric mammals)
- working in a used-book store or, better yet, owning one
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| If I won a
million dollars, I would: |
| Whimsical: |
- spend it on books and open a used-book store, or
- buy an RV and travel around until the money ran out
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| Practical: |
- buy a house
- I would still buy an RV!
- save, save, save
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| Things I collect: |
- Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, in various languages
- snazzy fonts
- foreign coins
- stamps, passively
- baseball cards (not so actively anymore, but I still have them all)
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| Languages I've
studied: |
- Spanish (high school)
- Italian (university)
- Swedish (university)
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| Some of the most
exciting moments in my life so far: |
- gazing into the night sky near the Grand Canyon and seeing, for the first
time in my life, the white band across the sky that's the center of our galaxy
- [cheese alert] when Jonas proposed on the marble stair of the Lincoln
Memorial in D.C.
- watching Scott Erickson's no-hitter live at the Metrodome, 27 April, 1994
(I also got to see Dave Winfield's 3,000th hit! - 16 September, 1993)
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| Special skills or
talents I have: |
- I can write forward with my right hand and backward with my left, at the
same time.
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| The scariest
things I've ever done: |
- my first time on the "Fritt Fall" (Free Fall) ride at Stockholm's Gröna Lund
amusement park, during which you free-fall 80m at 100km/h in your seat - I felt confident
until we had risen to the height from which we were to drop, then I thought I was going to
die!
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| I have recurring
dreams about: |
- my teeth falling out
- tornadoes
- old classmates
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| When I was
younger, I wanted to become: |
- a paleontologist
- an astronomer
- an anthropologist/archeologist
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| My most prized
possessions: |
- photo albums/scrapbooks
- my library
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| Some ambitions I
have: |
- to go orienteering (actually, I did a simple type of orienteering when I
was younger, but I'd love to do it again)
- to learn to use a weaving loom
- to research my family history and ancestry
- to someday have visited every continent, including Antarctica
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| Things that
irritate me: |
- self-deprecation
- people whose spelling has deteriorated so severely that they can't seem
to spell even the simplest of words (e.g. "how r u?",
"ne1", "l8er") -- this is very, very sad.
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| My weirdest
experiences: |
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| A few quotes I'm fond of: |
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| It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the
spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the
afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you
to face the fall alone. |
-- A Bartlett Giamatti |
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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.
"I just wanted to be sure of you." |
-- A. A. Milne |
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| Our youth now love
luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect
for their elders, and love chatter in places of exercise. They no longer
rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter
before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers. |
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Socrates, 5th century B.C. |
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| If God is omnipotent,
he could have prevented the Holocaust. If he was unable to stop it, he is
impotent and useless; if he could have stopped it and chose not to, he is a
monster. |
-- Karen
Armstrong, "A History of God" |
| My favorite ... |
| Animals: |
Hedgehogs and slugs (Yes, I know hedgehogs eat slugs!) |
Plant/Flower: |
Ivy |
| Beverage: |
Dr Pepper |
Poet: |
Dr. Seuss |
| Board Game: |
Scrabble |
Radio Station: |
KQRS 92.5 Golden
Valley, Minnesota |
| Book: |
The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White |
Snacks: |
Peanut butter and jelly on baguettes, salted peanuts in
the shell |
| Candy: |
Mr. Goodbar, Three Musketeers and Japp (Swedish) |
Songs: |
"Going back" by Larry Lurex, "Too Much Love
Will Kill You" by Queen |
| Card Games: |
Cribbage, Tripoli,
Thirty-One |
Sport as a participant: |
Swimming |
| Cartoon Character: |
Toad and Piglet |
Sport as a spectator: |
Baseball |
| Children's Authors: |
Richard Scarry, Gertrude Chandler Warner |
Store to Shop: |
Any bookstore, Archiver's |
| Children's Toy: |
LEGOs |
Store to Window Shop: |
Stitchville |
| Christmas Carol: |
O Holy Night |
Subjects of Study: |
paleontology, natural history, evolution, languages |
| Color: |
Deep green |
Summer Activity: |
Roadtrips |
| Flavor: |
Blueberry |
TV Show: |
Mystery Science
Theater 3000, Jeopardy |
| Food: |
Cheese, chicken
fajitas, green and black olives |
TV Station: |
KARE 11
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Movie: |
The Last Unicorn |
Video Game: |
The Secret of Mana (SNES) |
| Music: |
Classic Rock, especially Queen |
Winter Activity: |
Curling up in a cozy place with a good book
or my cross-stitch |
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| Updated 16
October, 2002. |
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