1. I am on my fourth career, as software engineer. I absolutely love my job.
2. For my third career, I was in IT support at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Customer support sucks.
3. For my second career, I trained high school physics teachers. There was no money in it, but the work was rewarding.
4. For my first career, I was a research astrophysicist for NASA. Hated it.
5. I am a decidely unfeminine woman raising two girlie-girls. I outsource shopping trips and nail-painting to friends.
6. I gave birth to my first child at age 38 and to my second child at age 42. I recommend getting an earlier start.
7. I was born at Druid City Hospital.
8. I think 25 is a damn big number.
9. I curse like a sailor, but have curtailed it quite a bit since becoming a mother.
10. I am currently addicted to the novels of Anthony Trollope. This is something like joining a cult.
11. I converted to Roman Catholicism as an adult. I'm very happy with my faith and very pragmatic about my church.
12. I like to read history books, mostly European history.
13. In 2009, my husband, daughters, and I are moving to China. Right now we are all studying Chinese. Ni3 hao3! (I can't figure out how to get Chinese characters on OS. That goes on the to do list.)
14. The more I think about it, the bigger 25 seems.
15. I am on day 1 of 5 straight days home alone with the kids. Help.
16. My favorite singer is Iris Dement. Second favorite is Gillian Welch.
17. I once won a writing contest sponsored by Film Comment magazine. The prize was a free trip to the New York Film Festival and a stay at the Plaza.
18. My most recent conversation went like this:
Eleanor: Hazel bit the rocks.
Me: Hazel, don't bite the rocks.
Hazel: No.
19. I work from home and sometimes it really sucks.
20. I once walked 60 miles in 3 days. You know, for the breast cancer thing. It was an unmitigatedly positive experience.
21. I work on the world's bigger router. Woohoo.
22. I never give up, even though 25 still seems kinda big.
23. I don't actually believe that unmitigatedly is a real word, but The Free Dictionary says it is.
24. My first daughter was named after Eleanor of Aquitaine. My second daughter was named after a kid I knew from church.
25. I watch As the World Turns and the Guiding Light online. If the People's Court was available in streaming form, I'd probably watch that, too.
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Anthony Trollope is now on my list of people to read.
Eleanor or Aliénor- can't think which spelling I prefer. It was my grandmother's name, too.
Will you take me to China with you?
"Jimmy," said one. "They eat rocks when you're not looking."
I guess he was right.
Trollope then...well I was looking for something to read and it is hard to beat such a recommendation. Nice about China!
One day about two years ago, my husband (a semiconductor engineer) was standing in line at Target when he saw flash memory (the very product he worked on) for sale next to a box of bobby-pins. "Look," I said, "plenty of people are happily employed making bobby-pins." "Yes," he replied. "In China." Today we live in Chandler, AZ, a layover on our way to China.
I can also now geekily admit that one of my favorite books is Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror". Let's hear it for Eurpoean history.
China, huh? I admire your bravery!
I've recently tried to find Asian history books that were as engaging to me as books like Tuchman's, but I haven't had much luck. I really need to learn more about Asia before moving there.
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