My Year at the University of Cincinnati

After Marci and I got ride of our EDPSBFH roommate in early January 1990, we set about to have a very nice 6 months. We shared a triple (two of us in the triple, we had a third roommate, Mrs Boogeywoman, but we didn't see her very often).

Marci and I always had lots of fun while we were living together. We spent alot of time giggling.
But occasionally she would sneak up on me with a camera

At one point I was dating Chris Kelch. We were the only pair in our group of friends, so the rest of our friends started calling us Mom and Dad. Even after he and I broke up, the kids (see? it's contagious) still called me (and do, to this day!) "Mom".

I lost count of the number of "children" I was supposedly mother to. But my "eldest" and probably my favourite (I'm not supposed to have a favourite? tough!) is Mark Thomas Dame.

Mark and I would go to our favourite restaraunt, Skyline Chili, and everyone would mistake us for brother-and-sister. We even look alike.

I had more kids than just Mark. In no particular order of age, were Andrea, Renee, Wendy, Monica, Jason, Andrew, and Sam. Some of them even posed for me in a family picture. In order from left to right, they are Wendy, Sam, Andrea, Andrew, and Renee.

Marci and I (along with the kids) spent many an hour in High Tide, aka the High Bay in the Engineering Building. It was a hallway-cum-lab full of vt100s (the rest of campus was relatively modern with vt220s and vt240s, even with a few vt340s scattered around). We all liked having more than one window to type in, but that was only possible if we used VT-Windows, a silly name for using two vt-100s at once. We would even do silly things like stay up all night, causing us to need large doses of caffeine

And before you go back and do a double-take on that last picture, it was in fact a dress. You can start breathing again now. In fact, here's a full-length picture of me wearing said dress.

March, 1990 was a relatively quiet month. We actually had a little bit of time to relax.

I met my now-husband in April 1990. He came down to Cincinnati in May and we have lived happily ever after

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