Holy Cow, an Award!

Thanks Amie for the award! I've been so bogged down in work that I haven't been able to blog. I guess I have something like a real job now.

I can't say that I've never won anything. There was that science fair exhibit with Geoff Herbst (he did all the work, I came up with the idea of using Alka Selter tablets to represent teeth in soda pop). The signed comic strip I won from the UN-Reno paper. And there must have been something else... but I can't think of what it must have been.

I seem to have to do some things to claim my prize. Here are the rules.

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the award & place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Share 7 interesting things about yourself.
5. Nominate 7 additional Beautiful Bloggers.

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Now is the time that I share seven interesting things about myself.

1. I've never seen Avatar. You can have that crap.

2. I am almost 38 and I'm only just now learning how to work and compete in the rat race. I was hampered by the expectation that I would make it big in Hollywood and the refusal to believe that any work in an office could be interesting. And also by the fact that I studiously avoided and declined leadership or responsibility of any kind. Not to mention that I never trained for any "job" nor did I even have the expectation that I might want to work after I graduated from college. All of this is compounded by a pair of extremely poor roll models in my parents, both of whom expressed nothing but disdain for their work. As a consequence I've spent much of my life working retail, scraping by, enjoying the occasional time of plenty, and not caring much how I'd get paid. But now I have a kid with another on the way, and wife and I have obscene student loans - I've got to figure out way to get by.

3. See the story above about Geoff Herbst.

4. I will watch DVD bonus features for just about any movie I get. Right now I'm going through the bonus features on Leatherheads, the George Clooney directed George Clooney vehicle. It's a good film that's destroyed by an extra half an hour.

5. This is the time of the year when I wonder what the "hotel" I'm doing in Wisconsin. I've started to worry that I'll never leave here. I dream of both returning to California - preferably the central coast - and moving to Europe. Most people have things to do on their "bucket lists" that are traveling. I don't enjoy travel as much as I want to move and live other places. The snow and cold are oppressive here. The apartment is getting smaller. We don't have a yard that we can garden. I will give Wisconsin the gardening. It's so easy here. Regardless, I want to live other places before I get old.

6. I nearly flunked out of high school. I had to go to summer school and just got by with a D average. It was all part of my plan! Seriously. I could have done much better if I did homework.

7. I am incredibly lucky. And pretty smart. I'm broadly educated (despite what both my diplomas say) and I have this feeling that something really great is coming. Like I've been preparing my whole life for a particular role that I don't know what it is, but will be a perfect fit for me.


I can only throw this award at bloggers I know. So that's Amie, EW, Ali, and... really that's it. Wait, I do know one more - Infurriated Squirrel!