Sunday

Song Lyrics du Jour

...Everybody knows it sucks to grow up
And everybody does
It's so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what
The years go on and we're still fighting it...

"Still Fighting It" Ben Folds

Sunday Stealing: Judd's Merged Meme

1. What were you doing 10 years ago?
Starting all the things I do now. My first website went live in May 2000. Had recently started working at the Foundation office. Lauren was in kindergarten, and I was volunteering at school.

2. Five snacks that you'd enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:
Snyders honey mustard and onion pretzel pieces, Cheetos, Blue Diamond chili lime almonds, brie cheese, spinach and artichoke dip

3. Five things you would do if you were a billionaire:
donate money to education charities, get my name on a building at A&M, buy that BMW roadster I'm always dreaming about, spend more time traveling and bring friends along, get a house with the ultimate media/entertainment room and tons of seating

4. Three of your habits:
warming up my side of the bed with the electric blanket before getting in (I rarely sleep with it on), checking my email and Facebook when I walk in the house from being out, kicking my shoes off by the back door

5. Five jobs that you've have had:
web designer, endocrinology laboratory technician, restaurant hostess, database administrator, pharmaceutical research data manager

6. Five places that you've lived:
Germany, Kansas, Houston TX, College Station TX , League City TX

7. Five things that you did yesterday:
worked the spectator entrance doors to the performance gym at the winter guard competition, went to Lowe's with Jeff, watched Lauren's guard performance (and many others), drove Jaxon home, tried to figure out how to get Cathy's webcam to work (that is an ongoing project)

8. Five people you would want to get to know more about:
Lauren's high school principal, Art Acevedo, Peter Jennings, my great-grandfather Lee, Walt Disney

9. Abortion: for or against it?
Extremely complicated issue. Am I "for" it? Absolutely not. Most simply put, I would never do it myself (perhaps if I were at serious risk of death by being pregnant), but I support a choice up to a very early point in pregnancy.

10. Do you think the world would fail with a female president?
Of course not. Good heavens. Is Rush Limbaugh writing these questions?

11. Do you believe in the death penalty?
Definitely

12. Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
I don't really care one way or the other.

13. Are you for or against premarital sex?
All for it, with a person you love and trust.

14. Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Yes.

15. Do you think it's wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?
I don't think anyone of any ethnicity should live anywhere illegally. There are legal methods to live in and/or to become a citizen of most countries. In the particular case of illegal immigrants from Mexico (I suppose that's what this question is getting at), I think we should take various approaches to minimizing numbers- guest worker programs, paths to legal residency or citizenship for people already living here, promoting economic development in Mexico, etc.

16. Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?
No, I like 19 better. Out of high school.

17. Should the war in Iraq be called off?
A "war" is our military against your military. There hasn't been a war in Iraq since we took out Hussein. Everything after that has just been post-war fallout, inevitable with very poor planning and no exit strategy.

18. Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?
No. Especially in the case of end-of-life issues like having a month left of excruciating pain and misery, there should be a way to escape that.

19. Do you believe in spanking your children?
I don't think it teaches them a darn thing, so I didn't do it, but I don't think a swat on the rear now and then hurts a kid permanently either.

20. Do you worry that others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
Nah. We're not going to agree on everything, and that's ok!