Five Things Meme
Ted from Beetles in the Bush tagged me with a meme. It's been quite a while since I've done one, so what the heck.
5 things I was doing 10 years ago:
- Designing exhibits for the soon to open Nature Museum
- Making my first attempts at breeding butterflies in the laboratory
- Attending my first ever Invertebrates in Captivity Conference in Arizona
- Refinancing my mortgage and going from sole to joint homeowner
- Loving my job for the first time in my life
- Take cats to vet for rabies vaccines - check
- Go to the bank to make a deposit - check
- Write Sarah's letter of recommendation
- Laundry
- Put up outside Christmas lights
- Ruffles potato chips
- Caramello
- Northern Spy apples
- Mixed salted nuts
- Oreos
- Build home on Olympic Penninsula property
- Purchase property in southeast Arizona
- Pay off remaining debt from cost of building Museum
- Contributions to Friends of Bluff Spring Fen, Conservation Foundation
- Spend an entire year collecting insects at exotic locales around the world
- Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (childhood)
- Waterville, Maine (undergraduate)
- Evanston, Illinois (grad school)
- Des Plaines, Illinois (starting work)
- Elgin, Illinois (home ownership)
- Stockboy (3 mos)
- Machine Operator (stamp press and injection mold) (6 mos)
- Research Assistant (5 yrs)
- Research Scientist (13 yrs)
- Curator of Biology (11 yrs)
Labels: Meme
posted by Doug Taron @ 14:10
9 Comments:
People here started putting up their Christmas lights last weekend. I just can't get myself to do it for another couple of weeks.
putting up lights is admirable - I am avoiding them, hoping Someone will do them for us.
The best potato chips are UTZ, they are made in Hanover PA, but were stocked on the shelves down in Maryland where i grew up ... and they have a good ruffled chip as well.
Hey....I was a bagger/produce weigher in a grocery store. The first job where I punched a clock!
wait a minute - you mean you're a Colby grad? Couldn't get into my alma mater down in Brunswick, huh?
:)
Hey Doug, this was fun! Now I know a little bit more about you! 10 years ago Gus and I were in college in Presque Isle, Maine! Oh my! We are much warmer (and smarter)now! LOL! I hope you get some property in AZ someday! I smiled when I read about you wanted to pay off the deb on the Museum. It shows you have true passion and great love for what you do.
cedrorum- Up here getting the outdoor lights up fairly early can be a way of avoiding doing the task in snow. As it turns out, the lights went up on bare bushes that were covered with 5" of snow the next day.
Spo- we have a pretty modest display, so it's not too much work.
Robert- Never had them, but I'll have to keep my eye out for them.
Dave- Stockboy was also the first job where I had to punch a clock. I enjoyed the machine operator job much more than that one.
Jim- Yep I'm a Colby alum. Whoa- you went to Southern Maine Community College at Brunswick? Great school. (Actually, your joke is a bit close to the reality in my case).
Kathie- Presque Isle? Thats WAY the heck up there. Waterville is the coldest place I've ever lived. I'm sure that Presque Isle was much colder.
Having moved to southeast Arizona from Chicago, I can tell you that you'd be pretty happy here--not to mention there are all sorts of interesting bugs. Did I mention that it's 66 and sunny today?
Mmmm...Oreos.
Hey...did you hear about the new Oreos? They're stuffed with an Oreo.
Okay...it's a groaner but it makes it's point.
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