question meme from d33ann

[rwx]

1. On your way out the door to go to work, your boss calls and says there has been a water main break, they are shutting down for the day, you don't have to work. What do you do instead with your no notice day off in the middle of the week?

Given a completely free day with no responsibility, I'd go geocaching out in the woods. I've been wanting to do this more this summer, but responsibility has been keeping me in town more than i'd like.

2. What is the next goal (time wise) you hope to accomplish. (Daily household chores don't count!)

Release a web application called the 'Controlled Vocabulary Swiss Army Knife' into beta. I've been working on it for a while, contains a lot of goodness from school.

3. If you could magically insert yourself in another career, magically transferring all of your education and experience from this one into the other (ie: you are not a newbie, but just as experienced) what would that career be?

Probably a genomics research scientist. I did this for a long time, and was considering it as a career, but a lot of stuff intervened that kept me from getting the requisite PhD, and while time passed, it took me further from the state of the art in that field so I don't think I could jump back.

4. What is your standard Starbucks order?


I almost never go to starbucks, there aren't many of them in the neighborhoods that are my usual haunts -- it would actually be inconvenient for me to go to one aside from the drive-through one in Sultan, WA which I seem to always need a caffeine burst when i'm going by. I typically get either a large green tea (sencha or gunpowder for preference) or a soy latte when i'm ordering at a coffeeshop. I'm not a big fan of the taste of milk, so I rarely get things with milk in them.

5. What the hell is your LJ icon?

It's a sign at a rest station along I80. It says 'Snakes, Scorpions // CAUTION // Desert Creatures' on it. The stop is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere and the primary landscape feature is a pile of rocks. I've been to that rest station on a couple of road trips, so it was a significant marker on the road of my life when those trips were taking place. In some ways, that sign was encountered at the start of the phase of my life which i'm now currently leaving. The other sign nearby says 'OFFLEASH PET AREA: poisonous animals will kill the shit out of your little yappy dog' or something like that but more polite. I really like the sky/ground interplay in that icon.

Comments

[rwx.livejournal.com]

Feel free to ask me more questions here, or comment if you want me to ask you questions. Although, given the current circumstances, there's like a 80% chance I won't get around to doing it unless I am bored or have something that I actually want to ask you.

[its-crabapple.livejournal.com]

In regards to your GeoCaching... Be carefull should you really go. In case you missed it, there's a nut running around our state forests killing people.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

thanks.

[just-aims.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered what your icon was...the wording was just fuzzy enough that I couldn't make it out. Now that I know what it says, I can read it. :)

And, naturally, I'm always up for questions. But no big deal if you don't have the time.