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another meme:
What I was doing 10 years ago:

I was 22, and it was 1995 . . . let’s see, it was summer, so I wasn’t taking classes, but I was in State College. I was dating my college boyfriend, reading a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald for my undergrad thesis, living upstairs from my favorite bar ever (Zeno’s, located directly above the center of the earth) . . . and enjoying being young and living in a college town with lots of young people, cool bands, and cheap food and drink specials.

What I was doing 5 years ago:

I was two years into the ph.d. and just about to have my heart broken by the on-off boyfriend mentioned below. I was teaching the first of many SAT classes and starting to prepare for my first round of qualifying exams.

What I was doing 1 year ago:

I was a couple weeks into a new job on campus, I was getting ready for a trip east for a wedding, and trying to get my head around the fact that my baby brother would be getting married in the fall. Not an easy thing to digest since I wasn't even dating anyone at the time.

What I was doing yesterday:

Office hours until the afternoon, and it was really, really slow, so I did a lot of surfing on the internet. I’ll blog about my favorite discovery later. Then I came home and began to revise my paper for the final time before sending off to the conference organizer. I finally sent it off—though technically, that happened very early today instead of yesterday . . .

5 snacks I enjoy:

Doritos
Hard pretzels
Frozen blueberries
Microwave popcorn
Pink lady apples

5 songs I know all the words to—don;’t like this category, so I’m updating to my five favorite karaoke songs:

it’s too late (carole king)
torn (Natalie imbrulia)
have you ever seen the rain (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
getting jiggy wit it (will Smith)
and my favorite:
Sweet Child o’ Mine (Guns and Roses)

5 Things I would do with $100 million:

buy a convertible (bmw z4, black)
buy a house (no more rent, no more landlord, and no more noisy neighbors)
save the whales
have a 3 day party and
hire all my favorite bands to play

5 locations I would like to run away to:

vegas
carmel
Philadelphia
London
cabo

5 bad habits I have:

sarcasm
dirty looks
biting my nails
procrastinating on the internet
giving in to mood swings

5 things I like doing:

procrastinating on the internet
walking/running with my ipod
rollerblading at the beach
reading detective novels
watching tv

5 things I would never wear:

5 inch platforms
anything chartreuse
unflattering jeans
pasties
gold lame

5 TV shows I like (only 5?! But there are so many!):

Veronica Mars
ALIAS
the 4400
the Dead Zone
Homicide
Grey’s Anatomy
Crossing Jordan
Big Brother
the OC-trash, but good music
LOST
the Law and Order Franchise
the CSI franchise

5 Biggest joys of the moment:

Winston
Owen (my 2 cats)
Tivo
Fresca
The fact that my advisor liked my paper

5 Favorite toys:

tivo 1
tivo 2
ipod
ibook
? don’t think I have other toys at the moment, but I think having two tivos should get me bonus points here . . .