Meme on a Sunday

This came from Sunday Stealing.

1. How long have you been blogging? Since August of 2008… that's four years!

2. Did you go to college? Yes, for five years and to graduate school for another three. Plus, years of off and on post-grad classes. I'm a perpetual student, obviously.

3. Where have you traveled?  Throughout most of the continental U.S., a little British Columbia, Mexico, and to Aruba/Panama/Costa Rica while on a trans-Panama Canal cruise.

4. Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? Ha, none!

5. What are your three biggest pet peeves? 1) Inconsiderate drivers, 2) People who leave time on the microwave after taking their food out, 3) People who leave trash on the soda counter at my corner store.

6. What is your favorite movie? I can't pick just ONE!  All the Harry Potters, Elizabeth, several Monty Pythons, Harold and Maude, Love Actually…. there are quite a few more.

7. What is your drink of choice; wine, beer, or liquor. Or Water, Soda, Tea? Cold water, iced tea (unsweetened), Diet Coke (in that order)

8. What is something you enjoy to do when you have me time? Hike, read, swim, troll the Interwebz.

9. What is your biggest phobia? Airplane crashes, ladders, bees.

10. Share with us an embarrassing moment of your past? How about NOT! Oh, all right, here's a recent one:  We're were Target late one recent afternoon and the monsoon dumped a TON of rain. We leave, the parking lot is swimming, I am in wedge flip-flops with NO tread/traction. I tell myself: Go slow, step carefully... yes, indeed, 10 feet later I am SPRAWLED flat on my back in the driving lane directly outside the front doors of the Tarjay! Niiiiiiice! Mr. Mamie is trying to scrape me off the ground and the two ladies coming out the door stop to help. In the middle of this delicate operation Lady #1 says to Mr. Mamie: "Hey, are you a [insert our last name here]? I used to be married to your cousin Kenny!" Meanwhile, Lady #2 says to me: "Hey, are you the flipchart lady, the teacher who puts all the cool stuff in the online Dropbox?" AWESOME! So glad I could meet these fine folks when I am looking and acting my best, hahahahaha!!!

11. What day would you love to relive again? Why? Any day before my mom died, so that I could still have her.

12. If your life was turned into a movie… what actor would your best friend think should play you? That's a frightening thought, better left unexplored!

13. What are the jobs you had in high school/college/the early years? High school: McDonald's, frozen yogurt/donut shop, clerk in an accountant's office, childcare. College: Cafe waiter, "cater waiter," pizza restaurant, conference services clerk, clerk at the UCSD School of Architecture, clerk at the UCSD Science and Engineering Library, childcare. Grad school: Clerk at the UC Berkeley "Daily Californian" newspaper, clerk for the Oakland continent of "teach for America," nanny, private academic tutor, exam prep tutor, substitute teacher, private school teacher. And I've been a public school educator ever since!

14. Show us a picture from high school or college.  I don't think I have any in digital form.

15. If you could travel anywhere in the world, all expenses paid, where would you go? England/Scotland/Ireland.

16. Where do you see your life 6 and 1/2 years from now? Hopefully right where it is now, at least interns of home/job/spouse/pets!

17. If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be and why? Nah, I don't like stagnation.

18. What 5 songs are included on the soundtrack to your life? (You can pick "Middle School", "High School", "College", "Post College" or any format you like.)   Middle School--anything by Air Supply; High School--anything by The Police, Blondie, or tears for Fears; College-- Sting's "Nothing Like the Sun," Depeche Mode "Violator," Madonna "Vogue," anything by Hothouse Flowers; Post College-- Indigo Girls, Hothouse Flowers (again), Joan Osborne, Santana, John Mayer.

19. Romney picked Paul Ryan to run as his veep. Any thoughts? Just that I'm sick of the whole thing already.

20. Your chance: Pick a meme you've done for us to steal. Bud and Judd will visit EVERY post today. Feel free to say, "Bugger off", or anything like that.  Too lazy!

~Mamie "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!" (Hunter S. Thompson)