Just Like When I Was a Kid - I'm "It"

Hmmm ... I've been "tagged" by Justin over at Materialicio.us. I'll play along, since I haven't had the energy to do any real posting lately, which you've probably noticed. Sorry. There are times when my kids and my job take everything I have. And I still haven't quite recovered from whatever nasty bug I picked up in India either, which is probably the reason for my recent total lack of energy. So instead of the normal dose of cool modern homes you're going to get a dose of me, John Commoner, the man himself. Apologies in advance.

Here goes:

Four jobs I've had

1. Spent two weeks one summer as a temp making fifty photocopies of a thousand page technical manual. I guess they hadn't heard of Kinkos but it beat my earlier assignment testing parts in a lab. As boring as the copy job was, that one was even worse.
2. Worked one summer as an intern at the waste treatment plant of a General Motors transmission factory. I subsequently quit my major in environmental engineering.
3. Was staff writer at the Purdue Exponent for about one school year. It was a large campus daily newspaper (now they have a website). Paid eight bucks a story, which meant all I had to do to eat for a day was write one story. Not bad. I didn't stick with it because the news was too boring to do everyday, and also because the clear bias of the Liberal Arts majors who held all the editorial positions meant that an Engineering student was never going to get to do anything else (sports, features, op ed, etc.). Oh well. Got a lot of front page stories though, and the Senior Editor (one of only two non-student, full time professional advisers we had) really liked my writing and I learned a lot from it. Finally quit when I was appointed to the Supreme Court of Purdue Student Government. That was a riot. We got to hear student parking ticket appeals. I have some fabulous stories from that one!
4. My current real job - I manage about $100 million in sales of automotive parts to a very large U.S. automaker. I only talk about the "big money" I watch after because otherwise my job has zero glamour whatsoever.
   

Four movies I can watch over and over

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Office Space
3. Out of Africa
4. Sideways

Four countries I have been to

1. Mexico
2. India
3. Germany
4. United Kingdom

Four places I'd rather be right now

1. Golfing in St. Andrews, Scotland
2. Golfing in Bandon, Oregon
3. In my great grandmother's kitchen, circa 1977, eating candy and cookies
4. At Garcia's Pizza, W. Lafayette, Indiana, circa February 1993, next to the fireplace
   

Four places I have lived

1. Saline, MI (where I grew up, just outside Ann Arbor)
2. Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana
3. Naperville, IL - burbs of Chicago
4. Brighton, MI - my current home - about 30 miles from where I grew up

Ah, yes, and four blogs I'm tagging now. Actually, I can only think of one. But I think they will have interesting things to say if they indulge us:

1. rolu|dsgn

Well now, that was fun!