January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

I usually have lots to do as well so I dont really need to be checking butttt... yah, theres this thing inside of me that wants me to check on stuffs still :S

I know what you mean. Even though we're very busy or we're late, we still have the urge to check.

We should try to speak of something else. Any ideas?

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

I read on Sunnybear's blog that she likes scrapbooking, so now I want to know: for everybody on this thread, what are your favorite hobbies?

[MissYoko 4]

I read on Sunnybear's blog that she likes scrapbooking, so now I want to know: for everybody on this thread, what are your favorite hobbies?

I posted about that on my blog yesterday.

Photos!!!!

but its a too expensive passion

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

I posted about that on my blog yesterday.

Photos!!!!

but its a too expensive passion

True! I read it just before I read Sunnybear's blog but kind of forgot

I couldn't check your photography website because I'm at work though.

Bryan wanted to be a photographer, that's his passion too. But he realized it's really hard to make a living with it so he's now looking for new career plans.

[sunnybear 0]

I posted about that on my blog yesterday.

Photos!!!!

but its a too expensive passion

True! I read it just before I read Sunnybear's blog but kind of forgot

I couldn't check your photography website because I'm at work though.

Bryan wanted to be a photographer, that's his passion too. But he realized it's really hard to make a living with it so he's now looking for new career plans.

Awww you guys read my blog heehee thanks! I like taking pics too but digital and well haven't been up to much of anything with this huge hiatus overhanging my head Just want my man here and to be in a boring routine LOL! Then the creative juices will hopefully start to flow again!

I am going out with girls tonight so shall be fun! Beers will be had haha!

[Alex & Rachel 78]

So what is that proverb with canaries in a coal mine?

Here you go:

One of coal mining’s earliest systems for warning of the presence of methane gas, the canary in the coal mine, though low-tech, was

extremely effective and rather easy to read: if the bird died, miners had to get out of the shaft.

As coal mines became deeper, so did problems of ventilation. Gas was an eternal problem in the mines, without adequate oxygen in the air, the miner's would die.

The Solution: taking canaries into the mine. If the canary died, there was gas and the miners needed to leave the pit.

The bright yellow canary birds were an early coal miner's life insurance policy. Carried below ground in cages, the animals' highly sensitive metabolism detected methane and carbon monoxide gas traces that signaled potential explosions, poisoned air or both.

On their web site MSHA (Mine Safety Health Adminstration) says "Canaries were preferred over mice to alert coal miners to the presence of carbon monoxide underground.... For instance, when consumed by the effects of carbon monoxide, a canary would sway noticeably on his perch before falling."

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

Oh ok! Now I remember reading something on these lines! Ok guys, I can be the canary for January filers (though you may very well be approved before us!). As long as the joy of being approved doesn't kill me, we should be ok

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Please don't die, Cecile.

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

[BlakeandOlha 0]

Or we could call you our "test cookie." That's the cookie that your mom let you get right off the baking sheet when you were young to "test" to see if the others were done. Either way, I am waiting for you to scream OMG WE GOT OUR APPROVAL. At that point I will be checking the USCIS website every few hours until we get ours.

Now, as for hobbies, I am an avid reader of history (majored in college and lifelong passion), snowboarding, model building and cooking. How about everyone else?

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Hobbies, eh? Since I no longer have piano, violin and tap lessons I suppose my hobbies consist of being social, cooking for friends and reading/watching films. Not terribly interesting, although I'm the go-to girl among my friends and family for DVD recommendations.

I suppose there's not anything I'm really passionate about. I like to draw/design and have done the odd painting/website. When I borrow a camera I like to take photos. But most people like to do that!

I love history; I did Ancient History at sixth form college and regret not doing it at university. But I'm lazy about reading it unless I have to, although I love historical fiction. I have a shelf full of Russian history books waiting to be read, actually.

Edited April 25, 2008 by Alex & Rachel

[shes 0]

ggeezz...may is coming...no january csc approvals YET ????????

[Alex & Rachel 78]

No, not yet.

[BlakeandOlha 0]

Hobbies, eh? Since I no longer have piano, violin and tap lessons I suppose my hobbies consist of being social, cooking for friends and reading/watching films. Not terribly interesting, although I'm the go-to girl among my friends and family for DVD recommendations.

I suppose there's not anything I'm really passionate about. I like to draw/design and have done the odd painting/website. When I borrow a camera I like to take photos. But most people like to do that!

I love history; I did Ancient History at sixth form college and regret not doing it at university. But I'm lazy about reading it unless I have to, although I love historical fiction. I have a shelf full of Russian history books waiting to be read, actually.

I think I mentioned it earlier but two of my primary centers of interest are in Russian history and in ancient history. Very cool. I've moved from period to period at various points in my life (e.g. I spent about 3 years studying British naval history during the napoleonic period). I can probably bore the socks off anyone on the subject. I've got a pretty extensive library at this point - because in my family we never dispose of a book.

[BlakeandOlha 0]

ggeezz...may is coming...no january csc approvals YET ????????

Correction.......no MORE january CSC approvals yet.