Five Things Meme

[mizzoumark]

5 Things I was Doing 10 years Ago:
(1) Checking groceries at Albertson's
(2) Taking Spanish at Quad C
(3) Trying to decide when, or even if, I was going to go back to school full-time
(4) Living with my parents
(5) Wondering what the future held for me

5 Things On My To-Do List Today:
(1) Look for certain docs for work
(2) Pay bills
(3) Get an

Comments

[tko_ak]

Go-Fur? I'm sure there's some witty reason you spelled it that way.

Why had you dropped out of school in the first place?

[mizzoumark]

Heh...namely because I couldn't remember how to spell it, and I thought the spell check would pick it up.

I dropped out for several reasons, but the biggest ones are that my GPA wasn't high enough to get into the (highly competitive) journalism school and that I was just really burned out, mostly from trying to get my GPA high enough to get into the J-school. I decided to take some time off to re-evaluate my educational goals.

[bdouville]

Oklahoma hunting license?

I used to love Three Musketeers bars too.

[mizzoumark]

Yep. I'll be deer hunting this weekend in Oklahoma.

I still haven't got the license. I need to get it by tomorrow.

Taking a break for a quiz

[kirkw3]

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:

(1) Working as an electronics technician in Escondido, a medium-sized suburb north of San Diego.

(2) Staying with my grandmother and participating in the activities needed to settle my mother's estate. My mother, a smoker, had died from lung cancer at the age of 54.

(3) Walking my 18 mile walk at the beach. The weather doesn't vary tremendously at San Diego. It's often possible to engage in beach activities during non-summer months. I'll never forget the time someone had created an incredible Thanksgiving turkey sand castle. It was abandoned and I stared at it until a passerby asked if I had made it. I told the truth and said I hadn't.

(4) Going for long walks around "home," getting to know the more scenic parts of Escondido, where I had moved 11 months earlier.

(5) Believing and appreciating the idea that life had mostly stabilized. Although neither wonderful nor dreadful, it would at least be quiet and predictable. Little did I know...

5 Things on my to-do list today:(1) Buy some PVC

Re: Taking a break for a quiz

[mizzoumark]

I hope you do, too.

I never knew you lived in Australia. When and why did you move there, and how long did you stay? Would you want to ever go back?

Australia and Thanksgiving

[kirkw3]

I moved to Australia with my mother and first stepfather around 1970. I returned to the U.S. with my mother and "new" half-brother when my mother left that stepfather in 1972. I was quite young at the time, having left the U.S. at the age of 4 and returned at the age of 6. Hence, I don't know much of the story behind the move. I can speculate it may have been related to the sociopolitical turmoil that affected this country at the time but I can't know for sure. I'm more certain of the reasons for the return. The stepfather was controlling and slightly abusive at times.

My impression of the place at that time was that it was similar to the U.S. except that culturally it felt a decade or two earlier than the equivalent time here. Technology was a little backward (color television was still in the experimental stages, for example) but that seemed more of a curiosity than a drawback. People were much, much friendlier, especially with strangers. I'm still impressed by that. Life was slower and less hectic and less competitive.

One other thing

[kirkw3]

Looking back at my list, I may have overemphasized chocolate. I wonder if I was hungry when I wrote this? I also love beef jerky. The chewy, spicy, salty flavor is really tasty. I should edit out ice cream and put beef jerky in its place.