MGoRollCall
I've been frequenting MGoBlog for about 3 years now and was an MGoBlogVoyeur for a couple of years prior. As users came and went during that time, occasional introductions were made amongst the user folk hereabouts. I've noticed a bit of turnover over the last few months and thought it may be interesting for everyone to share a bit of background. So, if you're inclined...
Age?
Occupation?
Location?
Alum?
Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? (funny, memorable, etc.)
Me;
On the precipice of 50.
Marketing Director.
Born in TC, but live in MN now.
L.S.A. Class of '88.
The most MICHIGAN thing? I committed a foul against Gilvani Johnson in an intramural basketball game. The foul prevented him from completing a slam dunk. This turned out to be my team's sole victory in an otherwise not so closely contested 119-42 loss.
Age: 30
I work in college athletics.
I'm currently in Kansas.
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User Experience / Interface Designer
AA
Michigan Alum; '08, '10, '14
Sang the Victors with the Men's Glee Club in 6 different countries and 16 different states
Age 32
Lawyer
LS&A, Class of '05
I wrote some stuff for a Michigan-related blog
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President/CEO/Owner of Dept of Defense companies
D.C.
Alum
Had a flag flown in an A-10 Wharthog during wartime and presented the flag and certificate to someone in the Athletic Dept.
There are a lot of really successful people on this blog, me thinks.
Curious on how loud those have to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnjWmtfvFo
And if you are ISIS, if you hear them coming, you can run but you will only die tired!
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Great guy! He is my Athletic Development Reprentative.
this to be the Michigan jet. None of this wimpy Lear or Gulfstream crap. Nothing says recruiting dominance like a 30MM GAU-8/A Gatling gun.
Age? 30's
Occupation? Lawyer
Location? Meeeee-chigan
Alum? Michigan Law
Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? (funny, memorable, etc.) - Made condescending remarks about MSU.
50s
Surgeon
Chicago
Not telling you
Recorded UM vs ND and watched it on Air Force One
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30
Lawyer
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, live in San Diego now
Not alum
Most Michigan thing: Attended every home game from ~1988 (when I was old enough to handle going to games) until 2002 (when I left town for college), plus almost every bowl game in that span.
Age? Old
Occupation? Sales
Location? Metro Detroit
Alum? Ross '80
Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? (funny, memorable, etc.) - Lived on the same street as Canham (took in his mail when they were on vacation), a block from Ufer and about a mile from Schembechler. Went to school with Bo's stepsons. Biggest in person Michigan sports memory #3 Michigan beating #19 (and future NCAA champ) Marquette 69-68 on March 6, 1978. Michigan's star player Ricky Green was limping around and ineffective but Michigan still won.
Underground high voltage electrician
Toledo
Non alum
Most Michigan thing: I started using two waste baskets. In Michigan one is for all your beer bottles the other is for all other trash. But in Ohio one is straight up recycling and the other is for trash.
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Most MICHIGAN thing: I was in the marching band. My senior year, Gerald Ford passed away. There was going to be a memorial service in the Rotunda, and then Air Force One would fly the casket to Grand Rapids for his family. There was also going to be a small ceremony at the Grand Rapids airport for his family and a few dignitaries. While typically the Marine band would play at this event, Ford had specified in his will that he wanted the Michigan Marching Band. (And also that he wanted AF1 to do a fly-by of the football stadium en route.)
Gerald Ford passed away in late December of 2006, so the MMB got word of these plans while preparing for the 2007 Rose Bowl. After reaching Pasadena, we learned that the ceremony was to take place on January 2.
On January 1, 2007, we woke up at 4 AM, marched the Rose Parade, played in the Rose Bowl, went to the airport, hopped on a plane, and flew straight to Grand Rapids. The next morning we played The Victors and the Yellow and Blue while marines carried Ford's casket from the airplane to the waiting hearse. Afterwards, his son came over to tell us all how much it would have meant to his father to see us there.
Age? 54
Occupation? I make water bills.
Location? northern Virginia
Alum? LSA '83
Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? Had my kids take a Michigan flag to Stonehenge...
This was a few years ago.
I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor.
My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine.
In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion.
In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
What do you think of Huey Lewis & The News?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]
Age: 30 is coming up in the next few months
Occupation: Lead tech for two applications for a software company
Location: Ann Arbor - Born, raised, and currently residing (with a brief stay in the southwest in the middle)
Alum: Nope, went to WMU, but worked for U of M for 3 years, so I am former staff.
Most Michigan thing:
- U of M related - Used to be the ball boy for the Michigan men's (1 year, during the sophomore year of the fab five) and women's basketball team.
- Michigander related - Left Arizona to move back to Michigan because it was too hot.
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Landman
Denver
No
Yelled Go Blue! while I was having "relations" with a girl from MSU
+1000 this guy.
+1! You win the internet today! Just wondering, did she ever get a chance to yell "Go Green" the next time you had relations?
She did not have that opportunity. It was a one night stand, which made it even more satisfying.
Damn. Nice. Much respect.
When it's a Sparty, that's too nice. It's called H & D.
That is Fantastic!!!
Occupation: Manager at foot locker
Location: Ann Arbor/Ypsilsnti
Alum: Nope senior at EMU
Most Michigan thing: Dunked on Jared Sullinger in the 9th grade. (Tip slam so it wasn't a poster or anything)
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Age: 21
Occupation: Future lawyer?
Location: Novi through high school, Ann Arbor now.
Alum: LS & A, Class of 2016.
Most Michigan thing: This fall my friends and I will be driving to four of Michigan's five road games. We're only missing Utah.
Age? 25
Occupation? Engineer
Location? Allen Park
Alum? Nah, GVSU Drop out, but hope to go back to UofM Dearborn
Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? (funny, memorable, etc.) Hate Ohio with everything I have.
Marcy Projects.
Name? None-ya damn biznass.
Age: 22
Occupation: Law Student at Georgetown
Location: DC
Alum: LSA '13
Most Michigan Thing: Wore just our student section t-shirt and jeans to the 2012 version of The Game in Columbus. I've never fully recovered from that trip.
Age: about eight weeks away from 37
Occupation: By title, Supervisor - Regional Planning & Design. Like a lot of pople , I seem to find myself embroiled in other secondary roles.
Location: Downriver (Romulus, which while miles from the Detroit River is considered "downriver" somehow)
Alum: The MGoHandle tells all
The most Michigan thing I've done? I could think of a few contenders for this title, but my wife's dad's second wife (long story) had commissioned a friend of hers in Iowa to make a Michigan stained glass window display for my birthday. Of course, neither she nor this artist knows anything about Michigan apparently, so when I get it, it is a white block "M" with green glass surrounding it. Graciously (because my wife's family is all around me), I accepted it although inside I was more than irritated (insulted even). The moment they left the house, I buried this heretical monstrosity in the bed where not days before I put down some homemade mulch.
This reminds me of the time my mom came to visit for parents' weekend my freshman year. We played Northwestern that Saturday and my East-Coast, non-sports-fan mother had brought a purple-and-black coat to keep her warm for the game. She was staying in a bed-and-breakfast somewhere off State and when she came downstairs in the morning, the owner told her, Oh dear, you can't wear that today!
Mom, slightly embarrassed, went back to her room and replaced the coat with a few more layers, the outermost of which was a big red sweater with grey and white diamonds and black lines on it.
The owner ended up lending her a coat.
ETA:
Age: 28
Occupation: Program Officer at an international NGO
Location: DC
Alum: LSA '08
Most Michigan Thing: Someone else already took the "Go Blue" during sex thing and theirs was better because it was with an MSU girl. So I guess I'll say that I've turned my formerly football-hating girlfriend into a fan whose mood on fall Saturdays depends -- independently of me, which I know because I'm sometimes traveling on game days and she still tells me how the game made/ruined her day -- on whether Michigan wins or loses. Quite proud of that.
a great place to post my resume....Sheesh
Age? Thirty-something
Occupation? I work in finance at FoMoCo. At the moment, on prototype transmissions.
Location? GP Park
Alum? I turned Michigan down once, and they turned me down once, so we're even.
Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? - I got made fun of when I first got to school in Virginia for saying I was going to "Teeter's."
I designed stuff for the 10R80 X0 builds, moved off the project since, but yeah. We probably have at least been in the same meeting room at some point.
If so, probably on Webex most likely, as I'm in Dearborn and not Livonia.
ATNPC is where I visit FOMOCO
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Engineer at Gulfstream Aerospace/MGoPhotographer
Appleton, Wisconsin
Aerospace Engineering '14 (centennial class!)
Most Michigan thing I've done (besides get a degree)? Nik Stauaskas used one of my pictures as his Twitter profile picture for about 6 months while I was at the Michigan Daily so there's that?