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Miriam at The Oyster’s Garter tagged me on the “5 Things” meme, so I guess I better comply! She can beat me up.

5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago:

• Attending a rockin’ New Year’s party at the home of jcn, Latemodel, and some other people whose URLs I don’t know.
• Turning twenty. (Eeep!)
• Teaching myself to cook in my first apartment, a little studio in Providence. Fave recipe of that era, from RSB: stir-fry tofu, canned sweet potatoes, and fresh ginger.
• Taking a year off from college to work, do the obligatory month of bumming around Europe, and figure out how to force myself to finish my degree.
• Starting this blog. (We called them “web journals” then.)

5 Things On My To-Do List Today:

• Figure out what to bring to my work Yankee swap.
• Write more reviews.
• Read the 3 graphic novels I picked up at the library today. The end is in sight!
• Buy new glasses with what’s left of my flexible spending account. Man, what a rip-off.
• Oh, you said today? Finish this and go to bed!

5 Snacks I Love:

• apples and peanut butter
• Taza Mexican chocolate
• nachos
• ice cream, the wackier the flavor the better
• pretty much anything that involves cheese

5 Things I’d do if I was a Millionaire:

• Correct the grammar in this meme. It should be “…if I WERE a millionaire.” What’s that you say? Grammar snobbiness is free? Hey, bonus!
• Buy a gorgeous condo in the ‘ville.
• Pay off my grad school debt. Boring, but true.
• Invest it somewhere that my friends and family can borrow from if/when they’re in financial trouble. (Like, say, if there’s a gigantic economic collapse. Not that that would ever happen.)
• Give most of it away, largely to clean, renewable energy research, and local groups that a) support sustainable food, or b) improve public education.

5 Places I’ve Lived:

• Silver Spring, MD
• Winter Park, FL
• Columbia, SC
• two different suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA
• Providence, RI

5 Jobs I’ve Had:

• Baby-sitter at a Unitarian Universalist church
• Web designer / IT intern / general computer lackey at a sensor manufacturing company
• college tech support student manager (ie., getting paid to goof off with my friends and become very familiar with everything popular on the internet circa 2000)
• the boss of the people doing the job above, only at a different college
• financial aid / registrar punching bag

I’m not tagging this time. But anyone who wants to spend way too long answering all these questions, I’d love to read your answers!