Meme: 5 Things
Posted by: Janet on: July 12, 2008
Jeane tagged me for this one. I did a similar one awhile back, but that’s okay… Here goes:
What was I doing 10 years ago?
That was 1998, when I
1. got engaged,
2. finished my doctorate in English,
3. left my tenure-track teaching job in the South to move to the Northeast and
4. get married, and
5. got some much less satisfying part-time teaching jobs up here. Big year, that…
Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:
1. Chocolate chip cookies
2. Reeses peanut butter cups
3. Mixed nuts
4. Barbecued potato chips
5. Combos
Five snacks I enjoy in the real world:
All the same things… Except, change combos to cheddar cheese.
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Buy a house with lots of land for a garden, and maybe some horses
2. Invest some for retirement and for my kids to inherit
3. Start an educational fund for my kids
4. Give a bunch away to worthy causes, or start a foundation of my own
5. Sponsor a family in need somewhere
Five jobs that I have had:
1. Pumpkin picker/cider presser
2. Grocery store cashier/bagger and shagger
3. Editorial assistant
4. Writing center consultant
5. Teacher of English
Three of my habits:
1. Getting up early
2. Holding on to the subject till I’ve beaten it to death and put it into words in a hundred different ways
3. Baking cookies as soon as I resolve to go on a diet
Five places I have lived:
1. The green house at the foot of the hill, with the creek in the back yard
2. The yellow house in the Italian section, where the lady across the street vacuumed her driveway every day
3. The apartment with the pasture in my back yard, where I once watched a mother cow spend the day running off vultures who were hungrily eyeing her newborn calf
4. The upstairs apartment with the huge American flag filling the view, where I could watch fireworks from my front steps, and where country music wafted in the window every Saturday from the truck driver’s yard next door
5. The first house I’ve ever owned, where my husband and I promptly bought a border collie pup to rehearse our parenting skills, and where both my daughters have subsequently been reared
Five people I want to get to know better:
I think I’m supposed to tag someone here, and I’d like to get to know all my blogger friends better! So consider yourself tagged if you’d like to participate, and let me know. In addition, here are five I’d like to get to know better:
1. C.S. Lewis
2. Beatrix Potter
3. Marian McPartland
4. Elisabeth Elliott
5. Abraham Lincoln
3 Responses to "Meme: 5 Things"
July 12, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Definitely don’t be intimidated… Maybe you’ve found this to be true too, but I think the more educated you get, the more aware you are of what you don’t know, and haven’t read — how narrow your sphere of expertise is. Then, if you have kids and they start asking questions, any pride you had left is out the window! :-)
July 12, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I love your different take on some of the answers! And I’ll try not to be intimidated by the fact that you have a doctorate! :)
In college I was quite in awe of all the doctors and would often shrink around them, feeling to open my mouth would contrast my ignorance against their brilliance. :) Then when we were first married we rented a mobile home from one, and he was quite nice and very easy to talk to. Just an ordinary guy. Smarter and more accomplished, but not as intimidating as I had thought.