But someday! Someday, when I am great! Yeah-huh.
(everything that's true about me is in bold).
1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. (what does this mean?)
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed (what does this mean?)
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp (only day camp)
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
25. You had your own room as a child
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
2009-03-23
Memetown, stop 1 - where were you when
In order to create content I've resorted to memes. Ugh.
This one is from New Kid In the Hallway - the ugh has nothing to do with that site, just my own disgust at being so hard up for post topics.
Where I was when....
1.) Challenger space shuttle exploded (1986): Asleep. I didn't have any classes that morning, and when I went downstairs and turned on the radio I heard the news. A friend of mine was pregnant and she was admittedly late term, but watched the launch on TV and claimed the shock put her into labor.
2.) Berlin Wall falls down (1989): To be technical, it didn't just fall down, it was torn down by East Germans who'd had just about enough fun with their friends from Moscow. I don't really remember any specific event - it was on the news and people knew it was happening but I don't specific remember any big news breaks about it or anything.
3.) Oklahoma City federal building bombing (1995): At work. I had just signed up for My Yahoo and was basking in the personalized feeds when I saw this little item about an explosion in Oklahoma City. I remember the BS thing about three Middle Eastern guys in a pickup...thank God three Middle Eastern guys didn't pick that morning to go down to the Waffle House for a blue plate or they would have all been shot.
4.) OJ Verdict (1995): At work, furiously updating the news feed on Compuserve trying to get the verdict when it came out..
5.) Princess Diana dies (1997): Coming home from dinner at a Japanese steakhouse with a couple of friends. My girlfriend was at a horse camp and I tried to call her to let her know. One of my friends burst into tears on the news and when they cut away to commercial, it was a commercial for Dean Martin's greatest hits album, to which she wailed, "Oh, he's dead too!"
6.) Columbine massacre (1999): I heard about it at work but there wasn't a ton of information about it at the time - I went out to Ciatti's with a friend of mine and they were cutting between bombing in Bosnia and the kids running out of the school. I said to each "see, good violence...bad violence...good violence...bad violence..."
7.) JFK Jr. Plane crash (1999): Came in from mowing the grass and sat down on the couch to drink a soda and recover from heatstroke. Saw it on TV, and knew I was supposed to be sad but kept thinking that they didn't break into programming when some nobody's plane went down off an island.
8.) Bush/Gore crazy election (2000): We had our furniture out in the front room, can't remember why. I think we'd cleaned the carpets that weekend. We slept on the bed in the front room and I watched this little portable television and wondered who would win. In the morning, we were driving to work and I turned on the radio and they were talking about it still going on, still being undecided and I felt a thrill of hope that Gore might still win it. Ha.
9.) September 11, (2001): She left for work before I did, and I was laying there dreading going in when the phone rang and she said "turn on the TV! a plane just hit the world trade center in new york!" I did and I saw that big hole in that big building and was thinking "how bad of a pilot do you have to be to run into that?" and then the second plane hit the other tower and everything changed. I went to work on the 11th floor of an office building, and a little later one of the marketing guys was looking out the window at a 737 waiting to land, and he said "I don't think I'm ever going to look at airplanes the same way again." And the sky was so blue. Every time I see clear blue sky in the fall I think about it. On the way home, there was a guy waving a huge flag from a highway overpass, and for the first time I really looked at that flag, not just as decoration or something to salute at a game but understood, really felt, why veterans sometimes get tears in their eyes when they look at the flag. So did I.
10.) Space ship Columbia disintegrates (2003): I think this was a Saturday. Saw it on the news. A sad story, and it was obvious they were glossing over the horrific deaths of those astronauts. At the time, and now, I asked the question: would you rather die in a bed, rotting from the inside, gasping for your last breath or in the middle of doing something you'd worked and strived your whole life to achieve? I do feel for the family, but do I shed a tear for them? No. They were doing what they wanted to do, and they knew the odds and I bet you all of them would climb right back into that ship if they had the chance to do it again.
11.) Hurricane Katrina hits (2005): This was not exactly breaking news; they'd known the hurricane was coming since the previous Sunday. I remember one of the last weather bulletins out of NOAA was incredibly ominous and I posted it on my old blog - it was a Katie-bar-the-door kind of warning that this was a really bad storm and it was going to be a direct hit on the city. We had just been there for New Years, staying in these pretty little fishing cabins in the state park. NOLA was one of the few remainng cities with a real personality, not all big-box Michaels' and photocopier nouveau riche crap.
This one is from New Kid In the Hallway - the ugh has nothing to do with that site, just my own disgust at being so hard up for post topics.
Where I was when....
1.) Challenger space shuttle exploded (1986): Asleep. I didn't have any classes that morning, and when I went downstairs and turned on the radio I heard the news. A friend of mine was pregnant and she was admittedly late term, but watched the launch on TV and claimed the shock put her into labor.
2.) Berlin Wall falls down (1989): To be technical, it didn't just fall down, it was torn down by East Germans who'd had just about enough fun with their friends from Moscow. I don't really remember any specific event - it was on the news and people knew it was happening but I don't specific remember any big news breaks about it or anything.
3.) Oklahoma City federal building bombing (1995): At work. I had just signed up for My Yahoo and was basking in the personalized feeds when I saw this little item about an explosion in Oklahoma City. I remember the BS thing about three Middle Eastern guys in a pickup...thank God three Middle Eastern guys didn't pick that morning to go down to the Waffle House for a blue plate or they would have all been shot.
4.) OJ Verdict (1995): At work, furiously updating the news feed on Compuserve trying to get the verdict when it came out..
5.) Princess Diana dies (1997): Coming home from dinner at a Japanese steakhouse with a couple of friends. My girlfriend was at a horse camp and I tried to call her to let her know. One of my friends burst into tears on the news and when they cut away to commercial, it was a commercial for Dean Martin's greatest hits album, to which she wailed, "Oh, he's dead too!"
6.) Columbine massacre (1999): I heard about it at work but there wasn't a ton of information about it at the time - I went out to Ciatti's with a friend of mine and they were cutting between bombing in Bosnia and the kids running out of the school. I said to each "see, good violence...bad violence...good violence...bad violence..."
7.) JFK Jr. Plane crash (1999): Came in from mowing the grass and sat down on the couch to drink a soda and recover from heatstroke. Saw it on TV, and knew I was supposed to be sad but kept thinking that they didn't break into programming when some nobody's plane went down off an island.
8.) Bush/Gore crazy election (2000): We had our furniture out in the front room, can't remember why. I think we'd cleaned the carpets that weekend. We slept on the bed in the front room and I watched this little portable television and wondered who would win. In the morning, we were driving to work and I turned on the radio and they were talking about it still going on, still being undecided and I felt a thrill of hope that Gore might still win it. Ha.
9.) September 11, (2001): She left for work before I did, and I was laying there dreading going in when the phone rang and she said "turn on the TV! a plane just hit the world trade center in new york!" I did and I saw that big hole in that big building and was thinking "how bad of a pilot do you have to be to run into that?" and then the second plane hit the other tower and everything changed. I went to work on the 11th floor of an office building, and a little later one of the marketing guys was looking out the window at a 737 waiting to land, and he said "I don't think I'm ever going to look at airplanes the same way again." And the sky was so blue. Every time I see clear blue sky in the fall I think about it. On the way home, there was a guy waving a huge flag from a highway overpass, and for the first time I really looked at that flag, not just as decoration or something to salute at a game but understood, really felt, why veterans sometimes get tears in their eyes when they look at the flag. So did I.
10.) Space ship Columbia disintegrates (2003): I think this was a Saturday. Saw it on the news. A sad story, and it was obvious they were glossing over the horrific deaths of those astronauts. At the time, and now, I asked the question: would you rather die in a bed, rotting from the inside, gasping for your last breath or in the middle of doing something you'd worked and strived your whole life to achieve? I do feel for the family, but do I shed a tear for them? No. They were doing what they wanted to do, and they knew the odds and I bet you all of them would climb right back into that ship if they had the chance to do it again.
11.) Hurricane Katrina hits (2005): This was not exactly breaking news; they'd known the hurricane was coming since the previous Sunday. I remember one of the last weather bulletins out of NOAA was incredibly ominous and I posted it on my old blog - it was a Katie-bar-the-door kind of warning that this was a really bad storm and it was going to be a direct hit on the city. We had just been there for New Years, staying in these pretty little fishing cabins in the state park. NOLA was one of the few remainng cities with a real personality, not all big-box Michaels' and photocopier nouveau riche crap.
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