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10 years ago
Swiped from Velantian;
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?
Far far too many. It's kinda embarrassing. Favorite is hard to say; I kinda liked being involved with the beta test for a software package, at a really giant company local to here which at the time had really nice cafeterias and grounds.
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?
Sometime around 1994-95. I'm from a fairly rural area originally.
3. We're/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
AOL, LJ, and Dreamwidth. But I got my start with an account through a school.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
Heck no. I'm pretty sad about that.
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
Nope.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
Very late. Like 2003-2004 late. It was a flip-phone.
7. When did your family first acquire a color TV?
Hard to remember when. Sometime around 1980 I think.
8. When did your family acquire a second TV?
"Second TV," kemo sabe?
9. Did you ever own "designer jeans"?
No. Grew up dead poor.
10. Have you ever been to a disco?
Nope.
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
Two countries kind of, only four states.
12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.)
Not really. I lost people I liked but didn't necessarily know very well, plus a scattering of older folks.
13. Are you parents still living?
Yes.
14. Do you have any gray hairs?
Yes. Some beard hairs are either white or just blond. The ones that aren't brown or red or black. Part of why I'm clean-shaven is that my beard would look just that bad.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax?
No.
16. How did you spend New Year's Eve 1999/2000?
I vaguely recall going to watch fireworks from the park nearest my apartment - which had this really great view of the downtown area where they set fireworks off.
17. What's the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
A poncho or a hat which I got back after graduating college.
18. Name one or two historic events you've seen. (directly or on media)
I was on the sidelines during the "Battle for Seattle" - while I wasn't in the protests, I was trying to hold down a day job at the time and drove regularly past the staging area for the riot police/National Guard. I remember 9/11, the Berlin Wall coming down, and obviously I was around for the first African-American president.
19. Do you eat your vegetables?
Heck, yeah. I was a vegetarian for a while there.
20. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
I don't think I could answer that one. I think if you have a good childhood, you'll probably go into a good adulthood and it'll be worth it despite the little pangs of regret. If you didn't have a good childhood, though, adulthood is this weird mix of being relieved that much more of your destiny is under your own control, and cranky resentment of all of the gunk you have to do to keep going, plus all the weird past regrets. Is that worth it? That's impossible to judge!
21. Do you feel like an adult?
Kinda. I feel like a 20-something a lot of the time - still just figuring it out, and kinda outclassed and outmoneyed in this world, though childhood is thankfully over.
22. Is youth wasted on the young?
Yes and no. Part of being a kid is that you can and should waste time doing a lot of not much in particular, goofing off, figuring out your likes and dislikes. Do it while you can, because you may not get the chance later.
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?
Far far too many. It's kinda embarrassing. Favorite is hard to say; I kinda liked being involved with the beta test for a software package, at a really giant company local to here which at the time had really nice cafeterias and grounds.
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?
Sometime around 1994-95. I'm from a fairly rural area originally.
3. We're/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
AOL, LJ, and Dreamwidth. But I got my start with an account through a school.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
Heck no. I'm pretty sad about that.
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
Nope.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
Very late. Like 2003-2004 late. It was a flip-phone.
7. When did your family first acquire a color TV?
Hard to remember when. Sometime around 1980 I think.
8. When did your family acquire a second TV?
"Second TV," kemo sabe?
9. Did you ever own "designer jeans"?
No. Grew up dead poor.
10. Have you ever been to a disco?
Nope.
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
Two countries kind of, only four states.
12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.)
Not really. I lost people I liked but didn't necessarily know very well, plus a scattering of older folks.
13. Are you parents still living?
Yes.
14. Do you have any gray hairs?
Yes. Some beard hairs are either white or just blond. The ones that aren't brown or red or black. Part of why I'm clean-shaven is that my beard would look just that bad.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax?
No.
16. How did you spend New Year's Eve 1999/2000?
I vaguely recall going to watch fireworks from the park nearest my apartment - which had this really great view of the downtown area where they set fireworks off.
17. What's the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
A poncho or a hat which I got back after graduating college.
18. Name one or two historic events you've seen. (directly or on media)
I was on the sidelines during the "Battle for Seattle" - while I wasn't in the protests, I was trying to hold down a day job at the time and drove regularly past the staging area for the riot police/National Guard. I remember 9/11, the Berlin Wall coming down, and obviously I was around for the first African-American president.
19. Do you eat your vegetables?
Heck, yeah. I was a vegetarian for a while there.
20. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
I don't think I could answer that one. I think if you have a good childhood, you'll probably go into a good adulthood and it'll be worth it despite the little pangs of regret. If you didn't have a good childhood, though, adulthood is this weird mix of being relieved that much more of your destiny is under your own control, and cranky resentment of all of the gunk you have to do to keep going, plus all the weird past regrets. Is that worth it? That's impossible to judge!
21. Do you feel like an adult?
Kinda. I feel like a 20-something a lot of the time - still just figuring it out, and kinda outclassed and outmoneyed in this world, though childhood is thankfully over.
22. Is youth wasted on the young?
Yes and no. Part of being a kid is that you can and should waste time doing a lot of not much in particular, goofing off, figuring out your likes and dislikes. Do it while you can, because you may not get the chance later.
velantian
~velantian
It's really cool the things people list for 18.
Leucrotta
~leucrotta
OP
Yeah. And then I protested the war, and then I was around for some of Occupy's protests. So it really didn't surprise me, the sheer brutality with which Ferguson's been handled.
