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"Skating Champ"

Ms. Car began at skating competitively at the age of twelve. If you know nothing of performance skating, this is a complicated mess of events.

Rachel performed pattern dance, free dance and figure skating. Both pattern and free dance were performed with and without a male partner. She competed in Junior Olympics monthly and also qualified each year for the regional competition held in Bakersfield.

She, of course, wore those oh so thrilling, skin-clinging skating dresses, complete with patterns and ruffles. She had two pair of skates. One pair for dance and figure skating, the other pair for freestyle. Both pair were white, as is standard, and were outrageously expensive. The dance skates were $700 and the freestyle skates $300. She payed for both pair herself and wore boot covers during practice to keep them gleaming white for competition.

The atmosphere was very serious and intense. Rachel found it challenging and consistently excelled at skating so she continued to compete all the way to the age of seventeen. At this point, Ms. Car brought home an unacceptable C- in Trig and was forced to give up the thrill of the rink.

"Ginger Ale"

Ginger Ale is the name a five-year old Ms. Car gifted her beloved first and only teddy bear.

"The Coasters"

While frequenting Las Vegas in the fall of 2005, Ms. Car and friend attended a show featuring The Platters, Coasters, and Drifters at the historic Sahara.

During The Coasters set, one of the vocalists wandered into the audience to find a willing participate. Ms. Car stood enjoying the music and without drawing deliberate attention to herself, but out of the masses, there he came. He took her hand and without a word, guided her backstage.

Of course, not knowing Ms. Car's singing background, he had asked her to speak the line "Why is everybody always picking on me." She stood small amongst the large male singers on stage, but when they all quieted for her line, she blasted her powerful voice.

Needless to say, she won over the three groups and the audience. For the rest of the evening, people cheerfully called out to her at slots and tables.

"Preferences"

Ms. Car has definite brand preferences regarding her daily intake of drink and smoke. She enjoys Djarum cloves and Stoli vodka tonics.

"The Ride"

Ms. Car gets around town in, and loves, her 1995 buttercream colored Lincoln Mark VIII. The Lincoln was a much needed and appreciated replacement to its predecessor.

The interior, also buttercream in color, has leather seating, power everything, ashtrays for each passenger, a 10-disc cd player, lighted vanity mirrors, and tells her what direction she's pointed in. Thank god.

These features may be fairly common or old hat with everyone's new whatever model, but Rachel regards this boat of a vehicle, as a classic.

"Lady of Assumption"

Ms. Car started Lady of Assumption Catholic school in the first grade at age six. She wore a red plaid uniform, white starched shirt, saddle shoes, and little frilly white socks - all of which she hated, claiming the outfit looked "frumpy."

When it came time for the children to take communion, Rachel refused to participate because she didn't understand what the process represented. Her mother was informed of the incident, but backed up her daughter's decision.

Consequently, that first year was the only one she spent at Lady of Assumption.

"Cassette Murderer"

At the age of 14, Ms. Car ganged up two dual cassette decks, borrowing one from her younger sister, and set out to dissect and destroy her tapes.

Instead of using a screw driver and opening the cassette casing, Rachel would cue up the lyrics and pull tape straight from the bottom opening. She would then snip out her selection, scotch tape the cassette tape back together and continue this process until she had omitted all the lyrical content. The only exception being if the song was a remix, in which case she would loop the breakdown.

She would then sit on her bed and place the sections of cut tape on a book and piece them together. One of her most elated discoveries occurred when she accidentally taped a section in upside-down and backwards. Zzzzzrrrrp. New sound.

In the ganging, she would play back tracks simultaneously from both sides of the dual cassette deck and bring them into the other deck to record.

Today we have computers and oh, the endless possibilities they present for young creative minds. Instant gratification upon demand. Cutting a few sounds and inserting them into a sequence inverted is a few short keyboard shortcuts.

Although, in all the time and meticulous attention needed to make a twenty second section of originally re-mixed music, Ms. Car might have learned something more definite and lasting. In her old analog experiments she likely realized patience and undoubtedly influenced her sound today.

"No Bees Please"

Ms. Car is deathly terrified of bees. Sweet little bumble bees. They send her into a shrieking frenzy. She regularly researches methods of avoiding them, but unfortunately, her brand of smokes lures them to her.

Some of her recent experiments include jamming dryer sheets in crevices outside her home and hanging air-filled brown paper bags. The smell of the sheets is said to be unappealing to the bees. As for the paper bags, they apparently fear the bag, believing it to be a foreign hive.

"Turned On"

Ms. Car is turned on by power outages and earthquakes.