What would your title be if you it could be what you would have it be?

I dunno, but I've been known as "The Can Opener" since often when I start testing I open a can of worms.

The Can Opener

Love. It.

I aspire to, but never ascended to this height. Mostly just 'Raker of Muck.'

I just referred to myself as the Queen of Budget Estimates, but that's only a small part of what I do.

Um, hey, so you guys that live in the Raleigh-Durham area, the husband and I are kind of talking about moving up there. In the sense that he's threatening to quit his job next week, and we have pretty narrow requirements for where else we'd be willing to live.

Want to pimp your city to me?

My official title is Senior Medical Transcriptionist, but actually I have been here long enough that I am Files & Records. I once walked past two residents looking over a chart and wondering, "Who's Dr. A. Grady? There's nothing in the hospital directory." and I butted in to explain that Dr. Grady was a cardiology fellow X years ago, but has since married and changed her name to Othername-Grady and has a junior faculty appointment at UC Davis Med Center, and they can find her current contact info either through Secret Database A, over here, or through the UC Davis website, accessible through the Office of the President website, accessible through this secret passageway in the UCSF online directory over here, but if they wanted to wait five minutes I had her clinic, voice mail, pager and fax number on my desk.

I'm fairly sure my eyes actually did the same flickering thing as the Wolfram & Hart Files and Records woman.

t am in awe of the JZ-fu

I'm fairly sure my eyes actually did the same flickering thing as the Wolfram & Hart Files and Records woman.

Of course they did. You're Files and Records. It's Your Job.

I do know an architect who will rant and rave at any opportunity about Information Professionals using the word architecture and etc. "WHERE'S THE ARCH!?!?!" he says.

That's funny, but I think that the word architecture is related to arch as in 'Arch Enemy" or "archdiocese" rather that Arch as in Triomphe. I think that is designates who is in charge, not who prefers curved entryways.

My official title is "Information Management Manager" which is the stupidest title ever. My working title is "Director of Research" which explains what I do much better.

In reality?

but actually I have been here long enough that I am Files & Records

This is totally me. I scared one of our new employees one time because I remembered him because he had been a customer. Upon meeting him on his first day, I said, "Oh, I remember you from when you were at Ameritech. Then the museum. And then you were at the Bar Association, right?"

Um, hey, so you guys that live in the Raleigh-Durham area, the husband and I are kind of talking about moving up there.

Woo-hoo!

Want to pimp your city to me?

Sure! I've lived in Raleigh, and Durham (current residence), as well as Chapel Hill and Carrboro (the college-oriented towns that make the Triangle triangular), and Hillsborough (off to the north of stuff, but an easy drive to everywhere else).

I'm single, own no property (aside from a laptop and a 7 year old car), and a 38 year old female. For me, Durham's been terrific. I live in an area called Woodcroft, which has apartments, townhouses, condos, clustered homes, and regular houses. It also has a ton of walking trails. If you or your husband get a techy job, one of the hot-spots for that kind of work is RTP (Research Triangle Park). It's less than a 15 minute drive for me. Durham is urban, both in the sense that it's a city with some risky areas and in the racial code for has a large non-white population. It has a major rich-poor divide, with a lot of rich folks sending their kids to Duke and a lot of poor folks living in the city just a few blocks from the university. Sometimes unpleasantness ensues. But the Durham = Horrid Crime equation has been blown way out of proportion. I've never felt less safe in Durham than in, say, Raleigh. There is a large (for the Bible Belt) gay, lesbian, bi, and transgendered community in the Durham and Chapel Hill areas, and a Pride parade every year.

Durham has the American Dance Festival in the summer [link] as well as the Bull Durham Blues Festival [link] If you like minor league baseball, you might enjoy catching a Durham Bulls game. There's a folk music and crafts festival around July 4 every year called Festival for the Eno (money goes to preserving the Eno River watershed.) [link]

Durham is 4 or 5 hours from the Atlantic Ocean (boy, it's been too long since my last beach trip if I can't remember) and a similar distance from the Appalachian Mountains. The nearest airport (RTP) is pretty good size and you can get flights from there to most anywhere with only one or two transfers.

The Durham library system is consistently good. I've been to a few zoning meetings, and they seem pretty transparent and community focused.