the time-wasting monster...

what is the time-wasting monster? well the beast takes many different forms; sometimes it's facebook, email, reading/writing blogs, the balrog from lord of the rings, talking on the phone, feeding fishes, contemplating the choice between carrots or broccoli in a death by vegetable scenario...

for many of you it takes the form of this particular blog (like it is for you right now), but for me it took yet another form, and i blame kara for this: the blog 'chain' survey. these have been around for ages in the email arena, but i wasn't aware of how easily they can be carried over to blogs. since i was listed as one of the people to respond to kara's in her survey i found it my duty to carry on the curse and complete my own right here. that and it's like automatic blog material, and i know most of you can use a break from the usual drivel that's just an urban sombrero away from the J. Peterman catalog. so here goes, enjoy the relatively basic (and often times predictable) answers, but i challenge you to leave some responses of your own too. peace out, i gotta get some 'real, actual work' done <:><

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Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. grocery carry-out at Hawkins Market, Ashland, OH
2. warehouse ‘manager’ at Sherwin-williams
3. assistant at ophthalmologist’s office, automated perimetry testing
4. TA or graduate student instructor for Embryology, Parasitology, Ichthyology


Four movies you could watch over and over:
1. Can’t Hardly Wait
2. Super Troopers
3. Spider-man
4. Office Space


Four places you have lived:
1. Arlington, WA
2. Bismarck, ND
3. Ashland, OH
4. Ann Arbor, MI


Five TV shows you love to watch
1. Seinfeld
2. The Family Guy
3. Rescue Me
4. The Office
5. The Sopranos


Five places you have been on vacation:
1. Orlando, FL (woo hoo Disney & Universal)
2. Seattle, WA (gotta love visiting the West Coast IP)
3. various locations in South India over several trips
4. SoCal for the Rose Bowl 2004
5. Queensland, Australia (with an extra day in Sydney)


Four web sites you visit daily
1. Hotmail.com
2. Facebook.com
3. all the blogs I normally check out
4. Google.com


Four of my favorite foods:
1. Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked Brownie & Cookie Dough Ice Cream
2. Swordfish from The Chop House
3. Idli & Sambar (probably favorite overall)
4. Panchero’s Burritos!!!


Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, Australia
2. South Beach/Miami, Florida
3. The Solomon (aka My) Islands
4. Ann Arbor in the Summer/Fall


Four friends I am tagging that I think will respond.....

1. Sarah (you know you want to waste the time)
2. Janine (easy target since she still hasn’t done it)
3. Seema (perhaps a more elaborate edition of the Wednesday 5?)
4. You, the readers…feel free to waste some time and answer all or some of the questions and put them in the comment section. I KNOW some of you are dying for a distraction (that means you – double D, gwen, Rachel, beth, Julia, AJ, andrea, aun…)

random pics:

to quote myself (in somewhat of a will ferrell voice) when i took these pics:

"i looked to the heavens and they were filled with gars...and it was glorious..."
~ yes, i am a really really big dork.