An Experiment in Scotch

Inter­net chain let­ters make me a tad queasy, mostly because what if they’re right and I don’t par­tic­i­pate and then I die in a ter­ri­ble com­bine acci­dent on the way home from the doc­tor where he told me I’m going to have webbed feet? Still, no one ever links to my lit­tle cor­ner of bore­dom so I fig­ure I’d have to be down­right rude (and the only time I’m rude is when I’m in the car yelling at all the other idiots-see you’re learn­ing stuff as we speak) to turn down David. So if you’re here for the witty com­men­tary this morn­ing, well, the world is full of disappointment.

What I was Doing Ten Years Ago
I was liv­ing in Fort Worth, teach­ing for The Prince­ton Review and wait­ing tables at Mac­a­roni Grill. I was on about day 20 of 96 days straight with­out a day off (two jobs will do that to you). I had pretty much given up on grad school and grad school had pretty much given up on me. I was hav­ing a blast with all my smart, new alco­holic friends at TPR though. Good times. If my liver had a blog and oppos­able thumbs, it might write oth­er­wise but luck­ily, it doesn’t.

Five Snacks I Enjoy
In no par­tic­u­lar order, turkey jerky (which is fun to say), Oreos, thin mints, Ben & Jerry’s Every­thing But The… and cherries.

Five Things On My To-do List Today
1. Gro­cery Shop
2. Get the oil changed in the car.
3. Pick up the dry clean­ing.
4. Pick beans, squash, pep­pers and toma­toes from the gar­den.
5. Work on French and F#.

Five Favorite Recipes
1. Sushi
2. Smoked pork shoul­der
3. Sushi
4. Scotch on the rocks
5. Did I say sushi?

Five Jobs I’ve Had
1. Soft­ware devel­oper
2. Test prep teacher
3. Waiter
4. Tele­mar­ket researcher (the worst)
5. Coun­try club gopher

Five Bad Habits
1. Not fol­low­ing through.
2. Dis­ci­pline (which is prob­a­bly the same thing).
3. Not eat­ing what I grow.
4. Leav­ing dirty Kleenexes by the bed (hey, you tuned in to learn about me, don’t blame me for TMI).
5. Not focus­ing on the things that are impor­tant.

All The Places I’ve Lived
1. Amar­illo, Texas
2. Canyon, Texas
3. Fort Worth, Texas
4. Dal­las, Texas
5. Wylie, Texas

Five Ran­dom Things (About me? Who knows)
1. I ran a marathon in 2003.
2. I once spent a week in Can­cun with a girl I’d never met except online.
3. When your dog eats a pound of organic blood meal fer­til­izer, it’s best to not let him inside. This is more friendly advice than ran­dom fact.
4. My mom is con­vinced that when they had me tested in like the sec­ond grade, the results said I was really smart. I’m con­vinced I cheated.
5. I spend time think­ing about how to sur­vive a plane crash.
6. I have a hard time with diar­rhea of the blog.

Five Six Peo­ple I’m Tag­ging
At the risk of ris­ing their ire, Scott (he’ll be thrilled, really he will), Jef and Todd (their blog has been painfully quiet lately, might as well), Katy (I’m pretty sure she tor­tured me with one of these once), Gary (because his blog looks almost as lonely as mine does) and this ran­dom guy I just googled (Cuz it sounds funny and his life really sounds like it could use the distraction).