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Thursday, September 06, 2007
8 obscure things about me...
*this is a cross post from my blog*
Yeah. Thanks, meesh for tagging me. i've been putting this off for a while because i'm quite unoriginal and am having a hard time coming up with anything.
in no particular order:
1) I support desktop computer environments (i'm pretty good at it, too) and have never taken a computer class. (unless you count touch-typing... but i don't think that should count because most techs don't know how to type correctly.) i guess that's a benefit of having a computer programmer for a father.
2) i've been to europe 4 times. 3 of those times i was still in high school.
3) i had a job as a telemarketer. it was for a painful 2 weeks. i hated it, but needed a job since i had just moved out of my dad's up to where i'm at now... (tip: have a job before relocating)
4) I name almost every inanimate object i own. My jeep was named Harold, my trumpet is Leonardo, my laptop is Meph (short for Mephibosheth), my phone is RoryG (after rory from the gilmore girls). i'm thinking about calling my new truck Harvey, he hasn't informed how he feels about that, yet.
5) While we're on the subject of names, i had 4, maybe 5 hamsters when i was younger (one at a time). All were named Michaelangelo (no, not after that Michaelangelo, but after the TMNT Mike).
6) I love pickles but hate them in burgers.
7) I'm an avid Apple and Mac fan, even worked in an Apple reseller store for a while, but have yet to call myself a mac owner. :'(
8) my guilty pleasure: chick flicks... but the funny ones, not the serious one.
*this is a cross post from my blog*
Yeah. Thanks, meesh for tagging me. i've been putting this off for a while because i'm quite unoriginal and am having a hard time coming up with anything.
in no particular order:
1) I support desktop computer environments (i'm pretty good at it, too) and have never taken a computer class. (unless you count touch-typing... but i don't think that should count because most techs don't know how to type correctly.) i guess that's a benefit of having a computer programmer for a father.
2) i've been to europe 4 times. 3 of those times i was still in high school.
3) i had a job as a telemarketer. it was for a painful 2 weeks. i hated it, but needed a job since i had just moved out of my dad's up to where i'm at now... (tip: have a job before relocating)
4) I name almost every inanimate object i own. My jeep was named Harold, my trumpet is Leonardo, my laptop is Meph (short for Mephibosheth), my phone is RoryG (after rory from the gilmore girls). i'm thinking about calling my new truck Harvey, he hasn't informed how he feels about that, yet.
5) While we're on the subject of names, i had 4, maybe 5 hamsters when i was younger (one at a time). All were named Michaelangelo (no, not after that Michaelangelo, but after the TMNT Mike).
6) I love pickles but hate them in burgers.
7) I'm an avid Apple and Mac fan, even worked in an Apple reseller store for a while, but have yet to call myself a mac owner. :'(
8) my guilty pleasure: chick flicks... but the funny ones, not the serious one.
Hey all,
You know, the trouble with this blog thing is that nobody reminds you to check it. I guess no one reminds me to check my email either, but somehow it really feels like email is delivered to you and to blog you have to go out and post something. I was really thinking that I had put an update on not too long ago so everyone should know what is happening in my life. Then I looked at the blog and realized I was at least 6 months behind. So it seems I have missed a lot of great stuff in 6 months. Glad to hear so many new houses, babies, and other major life changes are going well. Many congrats on all of them! Nate, way to go on the dissertation defense!
I guess I don't post much because my life hasn't changed a whole lot. Still in school, I have pushed my graduation target date back to next June rather than December. Maybe my big news here is that Lisa (younger sister) just left for China last weekend. She is going to spend the year there learning chinese and helping in a coffeeshop/bookstore.
Hannah, you must already be on your way to New Zealand. I am jealous! Looking forward to your updates.
That's it for now. Back to learning about what sort of aerosols are in the atmosphere and what they do to sunlight.
ps Alysia, I can't remember if the getting rid of odors post was in the last few months, but the question intrigued me. I am pretty sure that our sense of smell comes from molecules interacting with some kind of "sensor" in our nasal passages. I would guess that many of them are organic and not very polar molecules, so not ions. But it may be that those molecules are given off by the life habits of bacteria. In which case, if you get rid of the bacteria you get rid of the smell...
You know, the trouble with this blog thing is that nobody reminds you to check it. I guess no one reminds me to check my email either, but somehow it really feels like email is delivered to you and to blog you have to go out and post something. I was really thinking that I had put an update on not too long ago so everyone should know what is happening in my life. Then I looked at the blog and realized I was at least 6 months behind. So it seems I have missed a lot of great stuff in 6 months. Glad to hear so many new houses, babies, and other major life changes are going well. Many congrats on all of them! Nate, way to go on the dissertation defense!
I guess I don't post much because my life hasn't changed a whole lot. Still in school, I have pushed my graduation target date back to next June rather than December. Maybe my big news here is that Lisa (younger sister) just left for China last weekend. She is going to spend the year there learning chinese and helping in a coffeeshop/bookstore.
Hannah, you must already be on your way to New Zealand. I am jealous! Looking forward to your updates.
That's it for now. Back to learning about what sort of aerosols are in the atmosphere and what they do to sunlight.
ps Alysia, I can't remember if the getting rid of odors post was in the last few months, but the question intrigued me. I am pretty sure that our sense of smell comes from molecules interacting with some kind of "sensor" in our nasal passages. I would guess that many of them are organic and not very polar molecules, so not ions. But it may be that those molecules are given off by the life habits of bacteria. In which case, if you get rid of the bacteria you get rid of the smell...
Monday, September 03, 2007
Just wanted to inform all of you that I leave Thursday for [potentially] a year of work and travel in New Zealand! I fly from Knoxville (1:40 pm) to Christchurch (Sat. 2:50 pm) via Chicago, San Francisco, and Sydney. I'll be with cousins the first week or so (another cousin is getting married a week after I arrive); then I'll be boarding with friends for the next few months. After that, who knows. The whole plan still seems pretty crazy to me...I don't think it's hit home at all. Maybe 'cause I just started packing today since the house has been jumbled with things Eva was taking/sorting through before moving out last Saturday.
I'll look forward to seeing the updates you all post here. NEB, "chicken" seemed pretty suitable. :)
I'll look forward to seeing the updates you all post here. NEB, "chicken" seemed pretty suitable. :)
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