Tagged

Zappoman tagged me while I was in Death Valley and I am a little late responding. I apologize in advance to the four people I tagged.

Jobs I’ve held (in somewhat chronological order. Many overlap)

• City Planner research assistant
• Architectural Intern / CAD Operator / AutoLISP Programmer
• Hoddy. Mixed and hauled mud for adobe/stucco construction
• Architect
• Bike Mechanic. (The job, along with programmer, that I am best at, but by the time I was 36 my hands couldn’t take wrenching full time.)
• Ski tech. (A bike mechanic has to do something in the winter.)
• Dishwasher
• Rental bike fleet manager and camp resident manager
• Web designer/HTML coder
• Web/DB programmer

Movies I Can Watch Over & Over (While there are lots of movies I like, it is rare I want to watch a movie many times.)

• Memento
• A Beautiful Mind

Favorite books (Yep, I added this question. It was a glaring omission really.)

• Cryptonomicon
• Oryx and Crake
• The Kite Runner
• When Things Fall Apart

My Guilty Pleasures

• Electronic gadgets and computers.
• Running shoes. Seems like every time I find a shoe that fits it’s discontinued so I am constantly searching.
• Books … though my Safari subscription has dramatically slowed the growth rate of my book collection.
• Beer, especially home brew.
• Dark chocolate.
• Dark coffee.

Places I Have Lived

• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Connecticut
• New York City
• Colorado
• Vermont

Shows I Enjoy

• Versus/OLN series Fearless. No longer on. : ( Short biographies of contemporary athletes. The episode about B.A.S.E. jumper, Jeb Corliss was one of my favorites. Karen Smyers and Pat Tillman are permanently on my DVR.
• Discovery I Shouldn’t Be Alive.
• Discovery Man vs. Wild, but the name of the show offends me.

(Favorite) Places I have Been on Vacation

• Rio Lagartos, Mexico
• Greek Islands
• Paris
• Switzerland
• Krueger Park, South Africa
• Death Valley

Favorite Foods

• Macaroni and cheese. Unfortunately there is no good vegan substitute.
• Bird bars, vegan muffalettas, almond macaroons, yummy vegan salads and anything else vegan from my friends’ bakery
• Gingerbread and brownies from my friends’ bakery. Unfortunately they’re not vegan so I live vicariously by giving them to friends and family.

Websites I visit Daily

• nytimes.com
• google.com
• eurosport.com (Too bad Yahoo bought it. I view the International English site because the content is most similar to the old eurosport.com)

Body Parts I have injured

• Collarbone broken when I was 4 jumping off the top of a slide
• Both shoulders injured in bike crashes.
• Broke hand falling down stairs.
• Tore meniscus in knee falling down stairs. (Different fall)
• Compartment syndrome in AT compartment while running ultra
• Stress fracture in right foot.
• Scar on forehead from being hit by a golf ball during a high school match. It was a drive on a hole paralleling the one I was playing, Fortunately it bounced once before it hit me.

Awards You’ve Won

• Boring stuff. Mostly school and golf.

Nicknames you’ve been called

• Kramer, as in Seinfeld. I used to have hair like his.

Pick 4 Other Bloggers…

• Abi
• Katy
• Perry
• Meghan