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1. cafe du monde:
   There is absolutely nothing like beignets and fresh-squeezed orange juice at Cafe du Monde in the French Quarter to kick off a day in the back of an ERV serving shrimp etouffee to the wonderful people of St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans.
2. dat:
   "DAT" stands for Disaster Action Team. I'm on the daytime DAT for the Frederick County Red Cross chapter where I work as an AmeriCorps*VISTA, and I hope to get on the nighttime DAT for the Central Maryland chapter. That way I can get more experience and serve the community where I live.
3. dshr:
   "DSHR" stands for the Disaster Services Human Resources system, which is how volunteers are recruited to help on national disaster relief operations like Katrina. When I went down to New Orleans in March I was deployed under Community Services/Feeding, but my first choice in the system is Client Services/Casework. Hopefully I'll get to go out again this season.
4. heat:
   I'm a summer girl. Give me 90 degrees and humid over a blustery winter day anytime.
5. jimmy buffett:
   I am a parrothead and I admit it. I first became addicted to his music when I went to Key West a couple years ago, and I loved eating at his Margaritaville restaurant in New Orleans. All the chairs are painted in tropical colors with song titles on the backs. I hunted down "Havana Daydreamin'" for my dinner of "Coconut Telegraph" shrimp and a minty mojito. Oh, and I think his old classic songs are much better than the party songs everyone knows.
6. ncobs:
   "NCOBS" stands for North Carolina Outward Bound School. I completed my first and only but certainly not last Outward Bound course with them about 4 years ago. It was quite the spring break, a week of sea kayaking in the Bahamas. I got sunburnt to a crisp, journaled under the shade of a coconut palm tree, and enjoyed conch chowder the night before I flew home.
7. red cross:
   I work for the Red Cross in Frederick County, Maryland. I started work on August 29th, 2005, the day Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. I worked for 3 weeks in staff services locally, screening volunteers for deployment. I spent another 3 weeks in March down in New Orleans serving hundreds of meals a day out the back of an ERV. When there isn't a disaster, I teach community disaster education to kids, everything from house fires to disaster kits to tornados.
8. service:
   My life is service, hence the reason why I don't mind making poverty-level wages as a college graduate.
9. swap yas:
   After you've done an Outward Bound course, they invite you back to help with week-long service projects called Swap-Yas. You get two days of fun outdoorsy stuff like whitewater rafting, hiking, or rock climbing for 5 days of service projects at their base camp. We tacked tarps over the screen windows in prep for winter, bagged up dried food, and built steps out of railroad ties into a slippery hillside. All for free plus transportation and up in the North Carolina mountains.
10. warm rain:
    Some people see rain as an excuse not to run. I see it as a reason so long as it's not too cold outside.

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