Labor Day means no work

I actually got four days in a row off. Clearly I’ve used my scheduling miracle for the year, and will expect to work on both the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. ;) Bryan and I are spending the next two and a half days in Capitola, hopefully getting good weather and relaxing for a bit.

So I meme and don’t feel guilty. (Stolen from Robbie who stole from someone else.)

Five Things You May Not Know About My Time in School are:
1. I zapped the circuits in my “pod” on the last day of fourth grade by putting a paper clip into an electrical socket out of boredom. :/ All the clocks stopped and the lights went out.
2. I went into college as a physical therapy major and came out with two BAs in English and Film.
3. I still have all the notes that my friend Hedyeh and I ever wrote each other in junior high.
4. My junior high basketball team only lost two games in three years.
5. In high school I was the uber-dork…I played basketball, was in the band, and was in drama club.

Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:
1. I love my job.
2. I’ve sold snowboards for three different companies.
3. My first job was selling rubber stamps and sundry supplies when I was 15.
4. Two years in Japan proved to me that “team teaching” is an oxymoron.
5. While a Supplemental Instructor for a college class, I ended up getting my lead professor canned for exposing his lack of faith in the course.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:
1. It’s where I met Bryan.
2. I have heaps of online friends who are also RL friends.
3. I met Jess online (when I was active in the online X-Files community) who is now mom to Henry Pipkin, World’s Cutest Child.
4. I moderate at The MacObserver’s forums and founded and op at #macobserver (irc.macobserver.com).
5. I’m probably nicer online than I am in person.

Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:
1. It’s super close to where I grew up.
2. I’m 30 minutes to the beach, 45 minutes to San Francisco, and 4 hours to Lake Tahoe.
3. Though I technically live in San Jose, if I tripped in one direction or another, I could fall down in Los Gatos or Campbell.
4. Bryan thinks our town shuts down too early.
5. There are more good places to eat than I can possibly keep up with.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:
1. I’m not as nice as you think I am.
2. I value honesty and humor.
3. I’m slightly insanely competitive.
4. I dwell on things.
5. I probably don’t care what you think.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life are:
1. My house is a bit of a mess.
2. Bryan and I don’t fight, ever. It’s probably an illness.
3. I miss my washer and dryer.
4. I enjoy vacuuming.
5. We don’t use our kitchen table for anything.

Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want are:
1. A puppy. Again.
2. To re-meet some old friends.
3. To get back into shape again, and play some basketball.
4. A high-tech coffee grinder.
5. To be independently wealthy.

Five Embarrassing Fannish Admissions I Have That You May Not Know are:
1. I met Jess over a “mutual” love of X-Files fan fiction.
2. I still lurk in the XF fandom, though instead of participating in it, I’m now more like Pluto orbiting the Sun in my interest and visitation.
3. As much as I love the Whedonverse, I think the fandom is lame.
4. I can still tell you horribly obscure facts about XF, BtVS, AtS, and probably Days of Our Lives.
5. My OTP will *always* be Mulder and Scully.

Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:
1. Must. Drink. Coffee.
2. Think about blogging, then promptly dismiss said thought.
3. Use Windows NT (at work).
4. I’m Bryan’s unpaid personal assistant. ;)
5. Try not to wear shoes.

Five Things You May Not Know that are Really Important to My Character are (not necessarily attributes I possess, but rather things I strive for, or value, and values in others):
1. honesty
2. curiosity
3. intelligence
4. loyalty
5. BEING ON TIME