(Last updated 16 August 2006: Added new link, updated job info)
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Linguist and stuff
Well, this is my homepage, so I think I'll tell you something about me. I was born in Boston, MA, and grew up in Burlington, MA, a small town north and west of Boston. Their police department is now on the Web.
I grew up in Orthodox Jewish dayschools, the first of which was Montefiore Hebrew Dayschool, which changed its name to Merrimack Valley Hebrew Academy while I was a student there. I transferred to Maimonides School in Brookline, MA, when I was in fourth grade.
Between highschool and college, I spent a year in Israel with Young Judaea's Year Course.
I graduated from Boston University in 1994 with a degree in linguistics. While there, I was active in the BU Hillel.
I eventually plan to become a lexicographer, which is someone who writes dictionaries (yes, people ask all the time).
From November 1994 through February 2000, I was the managing editor at Information Gatekeepers, Inc., a telecommunications publishing and consulting firm.
I am now a technical writer in the documentation group at Comverse (formerly CSG Systems (formerly Lucent Technologies Software Products Group (formerly Kenan Systems))).
And now, a public service announcement. Pluto is a planet. Please make a note of it.
Michael and I have started pubbing our own fanzine, called Burstzine.
The strangest Web-related experience I've had so far was when someone told me that they recognized me in a crowd from the pictures here on my page, so click here to see our photo album [4 images in GIF format].
I collect neologisms. Here are some of the ones I've collected over the past few years.
In 1980, I got a kitten, whom I named Yofi (Hebrew for "beautiful"), as a birthday gift from my parents. She lived almost 21 years, and she was a wonderful, sweet kitty with her own...personality. Click here to see some photos of Yofi doing typical Yofi things.
I seem to have a compendium of random movie and TV quotes stored in my brain. Click here to read some of my favorites.
Meet my husband, Michael, and my friends:
Here are some good recipes:
I also run a service called "Ask Nomi." Click here to ask me a question.