I don’t usually play at meme tag games. In fact, this one took me months to comply to. In the meanwhile Jane Quigley also tagged me, so this is really overdue.
Because, and only because it was Maggie Fox what did it, and because she tagged me in Such. Good. Company. I’m making an exception this one time. So here’re some weird things about me that you might not know. Whether you actually care is a different story altogether, but it can’t hurt to have a little fun.
1. Favorite adventure: hitchhiking around Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland in the summer of 1995. No offense, England, but I was having too much fun in Ireland and skipped visiting you altogether.
2. Most flawed climate research: living (the wrong) 7 months of one year (Sept. 94 – March 95) in Moscow.
3. Weirdest honor: nominated for President of a Sinn Fein group in County Clare.
4. Dumbest move: sleeping one night on the streets of Paris. (tho not at LeWeb3 when I stayed at the lovely Hotel Du Cadran courtesy of www.hotelsaparis.com
5. Jack-of-these-trades: Jobs I’ve held for pay for at least one week: first-grade teacher, waitress, prep cook, chef, caterer, purchasing agent, project manager, PR wonk, marketing exec., interactive television strategist, developing show ideas for cable TV, freelance journalist, and in retail selling specialty foods, equestrian gear and plants.
6. Best use of a state park: living in Hueco Tanks State Park, Hueco Tanks, TX for 2 1/2 months in 1993 in order to rockclimb full time.
7. Strangest home: I’ve logged 12+ months of sea time living in teensy bunks aboard the SSVs Westward, Corwith Cramer, and Robert C. Seamans with the Sea Education Association. I’m madly in love with the islands of Bequia and Saba as a result.
8. What’s my major? I studied Environmental Science and Public Policy, wrote my undergrad thesis on Social Analysis of Soil Erosion and published on soil erosion (in Science) and environmental racism. So naturally, I’m now in communications.
In turn, I tag YOU. (Call it self-service meme tag. If you want to play along, play along and link back to it here.)
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I sailed on The Westward from Miami to the Bahamas and back. Blue water sailing!
1. Favorite adventure: Spending time with the Coca Cola King of Africa at his home and around the city of Tangier. He was an American expat from WWII who never went home and made a fortune in Africa.
2. Most flawed climate research: driving to Minneapolis one winter in a Trans Am in cold where the average was around twenty below zero. Stalling the engine or shutting it off would have most likely resulted in becoming a popsicle.
3. Weirdest honor: Awarded second place in the International Door Knob Tossing event at the East Liverpool Pottery Festival.
4. Dumbest move: managing to hang onto a tear gas grenade as it exploded in my hand. It took a bit of hand with it and put a hole in the ceiling but I lived to tell about it.
5. Jack-of-these-trades: Jobs I’ve held for pay for at least one week: photographer, newspaper reporter, on air radio news broadcaster, assistant to funeral director and embalmer, sailor, salesperson, marketing VP, CEO.
6. Best use of a state park: spending days in Beaver Creek State Park in Columbia County, Ohio where I grew up. I knew the place so well I could have been a guide. It was a great place to grow up and I miss that area.
7. Strangest home: I traveled and lived in a very small salvage vessel for two years working with deep sea divers.
8. What’s my major? I began school majoring in Anthropology, then Psychology, then finally settled on what other than English. So, I became an entrepreneur. It made sense to me.
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