Email:  stevenwitter@yahoo.com
City:  Castle Rock
State/Prov.:  Colorado
Occupation:  Water Resources 
Engineer/Project Manager
Marital Status:  Married
If married - how long?:  3.5 years
What have you been doing for the last 10 years?:
It all seems like a blur, but grad school at Colorado State U for Water Resources Engineering, then off to Sacramento&Denver for 4-5 years for my first ?real? job in a consulting firm. I concluded that I hated my life and the world of billable hours, so I left and took off traveling around the world for a year. I did water resources/development volunteer work in London, Uganda and Thailand. During the trip I met Cate, my now wife of 4 years, in South Africa. Cate was working at a Game Reserve/Safari Lodge where I stayed. Our courtship spanned over 5 countries thanks to the INS who would only allow Cate into the States once in two years. Worth the trouble, she?s the greatest. When I got back to reality, I went to work for the City of Loveland, Colorado then moved to the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado. I currently work for the Town as the project manager of the water resources department by day and am completing an International MBA by night. Cate and I are enjoying the CO outdoors and traveling back to South Africa when we can.
What did you do for the 10 years after OHS?:
Graduated (barely) from MSU in Civil Engineering, bought a flannel shirt and moved to Seattle to follow Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Not really, but toiled around in various jobs from a pizza boy to environmental analyst to braving the hills and rain as a bike messenger. Eventually volunteered and then worked for the State of Washington in water resources. Decided I liked that.
From Steve:
It's been fun reading all these posts. There are a lot of different paths to happiness out there.

See you in July.
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Email:  okemos87@douglaswolk.com
City:  Portland
State/Prov.:  OR
Occupation:  writer
Website:  www.lacunae.com/
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  1
If married - how long?:  5 years
What have you been doing for the last 10 years?:
Since I quit my day job in 1997, I've been a freelance writer full-time, with the exception of a year I spent as a Fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. I write about comic books and pop music for a whole bunch of newspapers and magazines, and I've also written a couple of books: "Live at the Apollo," about a performance James Brown gave in Harlem one night during the Cuban missile crisis, and "Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean," which is coming out this summer. Other than that? Getting married, having a kid, playing in a bunch of no-account bands, learning to play the ukulele, doing some performance/installation-art stuff at Burning Man, moving to Portland, continuing to run the record label; stuff like that.
What did you do for the 10 years after OHS?:
Got my English degree from Harvard, came back to East Lansing and worked in retail for six months, had a "what am I DOING?!" moment, and moved to New York City, where I temped for a year and a half, started the tiny record label Dark Beloved Cloud, and ended up being the managing editor of the music magazine CMJ for four years and change.
From Douglas:
Lisa Gidley, my wife, has her own site at http://www.spiraling.com , and Sterling, our awesome 2-year-old, has his at http://www.sterlingwolk.com ...
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Email:  sample@xyz.com
State/Prov.:  MI
What have you been doing for the last 10 years?:

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Email:  renee.ziegenfus@ge.com
City:  Minato-ku
State/Prov.:  Tokyo
Country:  Japan
Occupation:  Finance
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
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