A miscellaneous meme

It's late in the afternoon and Nova is having a nap of epic proportions, 2.5 hours and counting.  She's probably tired from our weekend's adventures in Donegal, which I plan to write about at some point, once we get the video up on youtube.  Helen did the following meme, and filling it in is about as coherent as my writing is likely to get today.

What were you doing 10 years ago?
In June 1998, I was moving from Lowell Street in Somerville into the dorms at EDS, and starting my dreadful summer of Clinical Pastoral Education at New England Baptist Hospital.

 5 things on your to-do list for today
Organize for tomorrow's sling meet (lots of steps to that one)
Wash diapers
Sew diapers
Trim Nova's fingernails
Write something.

 What would you do if you were a billionaire?
Buying a house would be high on the agenda, and not just any house but a historic mansion or even a castle. I would restore it and fix it up so that we could have massive house parties. Mike could have a workshop out back and make whatever kinds of spiky metal things struck his fancy and I would sit in the tea room with my computer, writing. We would also have an aikido dojo somewhere on the grounds, and I would hire an au pair to hang out with Nova a few hours a day.

What are three of your bad habits?
Nose picking
Web sudoku Scrabulous, etc.
Browsing the internet when I could be doing something productive!

What are some snacks you enjoy?
 Meringues
 Apples
 Cheese
Trail Mix
Tea!

What were the last five books you read?
What’s Going on in There? by Lise Eliot
 South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy

What are five jobs you have had?
Real Estate Broker
Personal assistant
Gardner
Architectural Drafter
Dishwasher

What are five places where you have lived?
Martha's Vineyard
Cambridge/Somerville
Guza, near Kangding, Sichuan, China
Portland, Oregon
Galway, Ireland

Nova is awake now, and tomorrow I might fill in about this weekend.

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