Four four four for my headaches...
I've been tagged. And because it's from Kelly (and because I'm running low on blog inspiration these days), I'll comply.
4 jobs you've had
1) When I was in high school, I worked for KayBee Toys in the mall. I was 17. My boss was a spitting image of Ed Rooney from Ferris Beuller's Day Off, except he was twice as creepy and a complete pervert. I quit on the spot when he came onto me as we were closing the store one night. I told him to go fuck himself. I never went back to work, and I never told anyone about it.
2) I was a hotel maid the summer between my first and second years of college. The money was pretty good, I could follow Days of Our Lives while cleaning rooms, and I absolutely loved having a cart full of cleaning supplies. My slightly obsessive-compulsive ways were satisfied by leaving every single room exactly the same as the last one, with two puffs of air freshener as I was walking out the door. I loved this job, and I won the White Glove Award the second month I was there. The hotel was a relatively pricey place marketed to business men, and I often found a stash of porn between the mattresses. Once, I found a bag of weed.
3) I spent a few months in Colorado in my early 20s trying to break into some area of forensic science, hoping that the wild west would have more opportunities than Indiana (it didn't). With my science-oriented undergrad degree, I was able to land a temp position as a "laboratory biotechnician" for an environmental company. Essentially, my section of the lab tested the contamination levels of run-off water from the mines hidden deep in the Rockies. A government mandate for the property owners to have water collected and tested kept the lab busy with plenty of work. Unfortunately, our testing method involved placing 10 baby fat-head minnow fish in multiple containers of the water, including a control group and variations of distilled water mixed with the run-off water. We charted how many fish lived and how many died for each concentration. The ones that lived were retrieved after 10 days, placed in a foil dish, baked to death, and weighed. All of the data was meticulously gathered and recorded. Every evening before I left work, I collected fat-head minnow eggs from stacks of breeding tanks to hatch overnight for the next day's series of contaminated water samples. In a nutshell, I bred fish, collected the babies, put them in toxic water, and then, if they managed to survive the nasty water, I killed them in the oven. It sucked, and I quit after 2 months.
4) Before I went to law school, I was the executive director of a small volunteer-based non-profit organization dedicated to downtown revitalization and economic development. It was a far cry from killing fish in Colorado or my dreams of being a forensic anthropologist. I had absolutely no experience with non-profits, economic development, or volunteers. I was, as one politician put it, a "neophyte." The hiring committee hired me because of my "youthful enthusiasm and work ethic" but I think they might have been swayed by a friend of mine on the board of directors. The job was highly political and demanding and exhausting. I organized major community events, helped develop a revolving loan fund for building facade rehabilitation, converted an alley across from the courthouse into a garden walkway, complete with 1920s-era murals and benches, and I learned more than I ever wanted to know about tax abatements, port-o-pots, and the old boy network in my hometown. It was an awesome job.
4 movies you could watch over and over
1) Better Off Dead with John Cusack. "Gee, Ricky, I'm sorry your mom blew up."
2) Pretty Woman
3) The Breakfast Club
4) To Kill A Mockingbird
4 places you've lived
1) Indiana (3 different cities, or 4 if you count the weeks I shacked up with a boyfriend in Fort Wayne, which I do not)
2) Denver, Colorado
3) London (briefly while studying abroad)
4) With my parents
4 TV shows you like to watch
1) Meet the Barkers
2) The First 48 (or any show about homicides or autopsies)
3) Trauma, Life in the ER (or Dr. 90210. It's always a toss-up between the two)
4) The Real World/Road Rules challenges
4 places you've been on vacation
1) Cancun, Mexico (love love love Mexico)
2) Niagra Falls/Canada/upstate New York
3) Las Vegas
4) Nappa Valley
4 websites you visit daily
1) MSN and CNN
2) Martinis, Persistence and a Smile and a handful of other great blogs
3) google
4) The Smoking Gun
4 of my favorite foods
1) wine (shut up. It's a food group)
2) watermelon
3) meat (any kind, I'm not a picky carnivore)
4) Anything from Qdoba
4 places I'd rather be
1) home
2) Mexico
3) buying new dishes at Crate & Barrel
4) taking a weekend roadtrip with AJ and Mel
4 albums I can't live without (this one is nearly impossible to narrow down)
1) Jimmy Buffett "Meet Me in Margaritaville - The Ultimate Collection"
2) Prince "Purple Rain"
3) Darden Smith "Little Victories"
4) The Grateful Dead "American Beauty"
4 people to tag with lists
1) Kelly P.
2) Moose
3) Robin
4) Tommy
4 jobs you've had
1) When I was in high school, I worked for KayBee Toys in the mall. I was 17. My boss was a spitting image of Ed Rooney from Ferris Beuller's Day Off, except he was twice as creepy and a complete pervert. I quit on the spot when he came onto me as we were closing the store one night. I told him to go fuck himself. I never went back to work, and I never told anyone about it.
2) I was a hotel maid the summer between my first and second years of college. The money was pretty good, I could follow Days of Our Lives while cleaning rooms, and I absolutely loved having a cart full of cleaning supplies. My slightly obsessive-compulsive ways were satisfied by leaving every single room exactly the same as the last one, with two puffs of air freshener as I was walking out the door. I loved this job, and I won the White Glove Award the second month I was there. The hotel was a relatively pricey place marketed to business men, and I often found a stash of porn between the mattresses. Once, I found a bag of weed.
3) I spent a few months in Colorado in my early 20s trying to break into some area of forensic science, hoping that the wild west would have more opportunities than Indiana (it didn't). With my science-oriented undergrad degree, I was able to land a temp position as a "laboratory biotechnician" for an environmental company. Essentially, my section of the lab tested the contamination levels of run-off water from the mines hidden deep in the Rockies. A government mandate for the property owners to have water collected and tested kept the lab busy with plenty of work. Unfortunately, our testing method involved placing 10 baby fat-head minnow fish in multiple containers of the water, including a control group and variations of distilled water mixed with the run-off water. We charted how many fish lived and how many died for each concentration. The ones that lived were retrieved after 10 days, placed in a foil dish, baked to death, and weighed. All of the data was meticulously gathered and recorded. Every evening before I left work, I collected fat-head minnow eggs from stacks of breeding tanks to hatch overnight for the next day's series of contaminated water samples. In a nutshell, I bred fish, collected the babies, put them in toxic water, and then, if they managed to survive the nasty water, I killed them in the oven. It sucked, and I quit after 2 months.
4) Before I went to law school, I was the executive director of a small volunteer-based non-profit organization dedicated to downtown revitalization and economic development. It was a far cry from killing fish in Colorado or my dreams of being a forensic anthropologist. I had absolutely no experience with non-profits, economic development, or volunteers. I was, as one politician put it, a "neophyte." The hiring committee hired me because of my "youthful enthusiasm and work ethic" but I think they might have been swayed by a friend of mine on the board of directors. The job was highly political and demanding and exhausting. I organized major community events, helped develop a revolving loan fund for building facade rehabilitation, converted an alley across from the courthouse into a garden walkway, complete with 1920s-era murals and benches, and I learned more than I ever wanted to know about tax abatements, port-o-pots, and the old boy network in my hometown. It was an awesome job.
4 movies you could watch over and over
1) Better Off Dead with John Cusack. "Gee, Ricky, I'm sorry your mom blew up."
2) Pretty Woman
3) The Breakfast Club
4) To Kill A Mockingbird
4 places you've lived
1) Indiana (3 different cities, or 4 if you count the weeks I shacked up with a boyfriend in Fort Wayne, which I do not)
2) Denver, Colorado
3) London (briefly while studying abroad)
4) With my parents
4 TV shows you like to watch
1) Meet the Barkers
2) The First 48 (or any show about homicides or autopsies)
3) Trauma, Life in the ER (or Dr. 90210. It's always a toss-up between the two)
4) The Real World/Road Rules challenges
4 places you've been on vacation
1) Cancun, Mexico (love love love Mexico)
2) Niagra Falls/Canada/upstate New York
3) Las Vegas
4) Nappa Valley
4 websites you visit daily
1) MSN and CNN
2) Martinis, Persistence and a Smile and a handful of other great blogs
3) google
4) The Smoking Gun
4 of my favorite foods
1) wine (shut up. It's a food group)
2) watermelon
3) meat (any kind, I'm not a picky carnivore)
4) Anything from Qdoba
4 places I'd rather be
1) home
2) Mexico
3) buying new dishes at Crate & Barrel
4) taking a weekend roadtrip with AJ and Mel
4 albums I can't live without (this one is nearly impossible to narrow down)
1) Jimmy Buffett "Meet Me in Margaritaville - The Ultimate Collection"
2) Prince "Purple Rain"
3) Darden Smith "Little Victories"
4) The Grateful Dead "American Beauty"
4 people to tag with lists
1) Kelly P.
2) Moose
3) Robin
4) Tommy
posted by Amanda at 1:28 AM
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