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Okay, here's a story. A true story. Not even -based- on a true story. Its real.

Backstory:

As some of you may already know,

pheret1 and I were raised by wolves. By this I mean that we were pretty sheltered. Our mother was- and still is- an intellectual elitest, and nary a whisper of pop culture came through our door. Think Frances McDormand's character in Almost Famous, only instead of banning Simon and Garfunkle, she put them in my Christmas stocking when I was eight.

I began my musical evolution by late grade school, as I spent time at friends houses, and at our older sibling's houses (half siblings, eighteen and twenty years older than me, respectively). In middle school I began listening to the oldies station pretty regularly, and by eighth grade, I was on to classic rock (Chicagoans, remember what WCKG used to be?). By the time I was being driven around in friends cars, much to Mother's chagrin (she didn't trust teenaged drivers and we technically weren't allowed to ride with them, but there wasn't much she could do on this front except gnash her teeth), I was finally starting to at least catch on that this whole "pop culture" thing existed.

Now, despite the fact that I am actually teachable, I've never been considered even remotely hip. In any area. Hippy or hippie maybe, but not "hip".

Now- and this may momentarily seem unrelated, but bear with me- when a person is done with a stint on team in CPT, there is a process called the "Exit Interview" that everyone has to go through. This consists of a set of questions to that person and to several of their teammates about strengths, concerns, etc. Probably not unlike what you go through in a Real Job, but I wouldn't know because I've never had one. Now, my exit interview process was delayed, because my last week on team was when the shit hit the fan in Iraq, and we'd been dealing with that for weeks and weeks.

The Now Story:

So I finally got feedback on my exit interview stuff this week. My teammates had to tell what they thought my strengths were, if they had any concerns about my work, etc. The comments were overall really positive, but there was one place that made me laugh and be very happy.

In the section that asked "What things did this person contribute most to the team?" Matt answered "Her iPod. Amy has the best collection of rock and punk music of anyone I've ever worked with on team before".

Heeee.

Apparently, I actually do have good taste in music. And maybe- just maybe- someone thinks I'm hip.