5 Things Meme

Those scallywags, Brian from Laelaps and Adrian from Evolving Complexity, have tagged me with the 5 things meme. Wow, its been ages since those gosh darn memes have been traveling around. I swore we exhausted them out last year, but like a nasty infection you didn't quite clean out well enough, its come back. Here it goes!

5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago

• Line cook at Applebee's in Davenport, IA
• Breaking off an engagement (one of the best things I've ever done!)
• Dropped out of community college
• Traveled to Australia and New Zealand
• Smoking 1-2 packs of cigarettes a day
  

5 Things On My To-Do List Today

• Write some more on my Masters thesis (yes it is still isn't quite finished yet...)
  
• Clean up living room (train kids to pick up toys... futile I know...)
• Read on microsatellite optimization
• Write some blog posts
• Figure out how to increase resolution of line drawings for a publication that held back because the resolution of the images was too low :(

5 Snacks I Love

• Sun chips!!
• Cashew and raisin mix
• Cookies
• Bananas
• Goldfish crackers
  

5 Things I Would Do If I Were A Millionaire

• Buy a house with lots of land, and a boat of course
  
• Pay off all my debts and brothers' debts and buy my parents a nice house near us
  
• Invest a large enough portion that we could live comfortably off the interest
• Put enough way for my kids to get the best possible education and not have to worry about working through school like I did
• Start a scholarship for poor people to attend college

5 Places I've lived

• State College, PA
• Davis, Monterey, San Jose and Berkeley, CA
• Mesa, AZ
• Bettendorf, IA
• Moline, IL

5 Jobs I've Had

• Graduate student research and teaching assistant
• Academic Support Services tutor (basic arithmetic to calculus)
  
• Supervisor at an upscale local cafe
• Audio engineer and studio musician
• Line cook, baker and/or kitchen manager for several restaurants

Ok, so I will tag my coblogger Eric, Rick, Karen, the Southern Fried Scientist, and EchinoChris.