"20 Questions" for the mods (or more)

^ Wow that was fast--haha

This is completly irrelevant but i just heard on the news that a child was born in India(who is now about 3 years old) with a parasitic (sp) twin and so she has four arms and four legs. She is looked up as a god...haha!!----i thought of it when you said you hoped i looked some what human.

^^^LOL ... the things that comes to our minds when we read or hear something....

It may be because I use firefox but I can't see the rest of your post Brit.

Anyways... Jane Marie, would the tiny chunks that you throw up be roe?

I don't know about a favorite word but right now, at the moment, I really like the word "Mufasa" but you have to say it just right. Alot of emphasis on the "MOO" and connecting the "Fah" and Sah" quickly, while dragginf out the "ah" is "Sa"

Oh, believe me, I know how to say it right. MOO fasa (I typed the fasa REALLY fast, if namsayin'). What about Mushufasa? The asian Mufasa.

Okay Aken, what the heck does Aken Sol mean? Like Aching Soul? What's your real name?

Believe it or not, I love talking about prison, the myths, the psychology , the bs rhetoric about rehabilitation, the experiences good and bad, the hole, the degradation, and the effects of a cell itself.

^ One of the topic's i study in legal focuses strongly on the prison system. When i was reading about the fact that upon entering prison you are immediatly put into maximum security before classification. Anyway there was a case study of a man in 1987 who was only 18 years old and was serving a sentence of 5 days for defaulting traffic fines, he was beaten into a coma by a long-term violent prisoner for refusing to have sex with him. Last year i got offered a job to work with families and children at a prison near the city to help with the stress and stigma attached with it. Because the percentage of recidivism is so high you sometimes wonder if they have a chance at all. At least they are now being taught trade and skills to apply to the workforce but it's probably those who have been in their for so long that they can't picture another life because prison means security and identity to them. But the story that probably impacted me most was when i met a 12 year old boy who had a child who only recently died of SIDs, who's girlfriend had committed suicide and who had been in juvinille (sp) detention 3 times for robbery, assault and attempted murder. Not to mention the numerous psychatrict admissions. But i remember him saying to me. What's the point in trying there's no hope for me anymore, i'll either end up in an adult prison for the rest of my life, stuck in another institution or dead. tsk tsk tsk society

Wow, yeah, firefox won't let me see past Brit's last post so I had to use Internet Explorer *gasp!*

Okay Jane Marie (I actually dig the whole I-have-two-first-names-as-my-whole-name thing, and yeah, that's a compliment), how awesome is Mulan?

Yeah, and Aken Sol is a pen name that was given to me years ago. It stuck and so I use it for myself a lot. I realize it's a bit emo but that name was before the whole genre was created and it fits fine under most of my poems.
My real name? It's something that can be realted closely to my pen name.

Llama- That really is depressing.

I actually dig the whole I-have-two-first-names-as-my-whole-name thing

^i have that too except for me it's a bad thing. When i was at school my whole first name wouldn't fit on the roll that the teachers would call so each roll would have some different shortened version...it was purely amazing the amount of different names they came up with to call me

BRITT!!! When did you become a Mod? Man I leave for a month and the whole site like changes?! Lucky. I wanna be a mod. haha I love you britt.

Any downsides of being a mod?

Ciao<3

Any downsides to being a mod?

^^
Yes, actually, there is. I have to keep my mouth in check and cannot tell people to go fly off there broomstick while in outterspace someplace. LOL

Actually, even though many say that being a mod is about being "power hungry" I will admitt that it is not all that.

Mods are often lumped together and classified as one. When one mod makes a mistake then all mods are blamed (normally) and must answer for it.

People fail to forget that we are only human, too. And no matter how hard we try there will be mistakes made along the way.

However, the members make a mistake and it is easily forgotten and looked upon as a simple "mistake" from a memeber. A mod makes a mistake and then we are "power hungry" and "abusing our powers"

Though I, personally, have not recieved many complaints about being a mod or told how aweful I am... there are times when I second guess myself and try to look at the situation from a different perspective.

~~Sher

I wonder what the Mods, and not the new ones, would think of being a normal member again?

Do you think you would like it?

Actually, Kevin, I am happy where I am at. I do not know if I would ever want to be a member again, but only time will tell.

Right now I am doing what I can to help rid the site of plagiarism amongst other things and as you know it is very time consuming.

Overall, I am satisfied with being a mod, but then again I am prob. still considered a newbie lol

~~Sher