Ask me!

[cherydactyl]

via fossilapostle

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

[Note: I reserve the right to not answer, or not answer publicly, anything I don't want my future teenage kids to read.]

Comments

[jixel.livejournal.com]

lol.. oh sing along is post a comment! lol i was like darn how do i reply!

ok i'm sure we all have simple questions, so here's one, are you vegetarian (or vegan or omnivore or what have you)

:o)

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I'm an omni, who struggles with trying to be non-dairy in a household that includes a child who would get very little protein at all if it weren't for cheese. (I try to do non-dairy because avoiding dairy helps my seasonal allergies issues be much less annoying.)

If I were single, I'd be making a go of being a vegan, or mostly-vegan. I do like an occasional steak, but I could otherwise take or leave meat and eggs. I actually like tofu and such. I'm just not up for trying to take my family vegan. I *am* chipping away at it though, as evidenced by the green bean stir fry post .

Question!

[aular.livejournal.com]

What do you do for a living (and where do you work)?

Two parter ... what do you WISH you were doing and where would you work? :D

Re: Question!

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I am not currently employed. I'm a stay-home mom and volunteer for the most part. My most recent gainful employment was as office manager/dogsbody at a private school. I was let go in 2007 when they went from 2 campuses and 75 students to 1 campus of 43 students from 06-07 to 07-08. Last school year I stayed home full time and helped at the co-op preschool my younger daughter attended, and worked a very small part time job supervising morning care at that same school in the second half of the school year, among other things. I do shopping for an elderly lady once a week, and I have several volunteer things I do. I'm also trying to get ready to start a yoga teacher training program. I'm looking for a part-time job right now, and have hopes about one I interviewed for last week at the intermediate school district. We will see.

As for what I wish I was doing...yoga teacher. I've been trying to make the teacher training happen for about five years now and something keeps getting in the way, usually family stuff. Now that M is in kindergarten, I'm hopeful I can make it work soon.

edited to correct time line.

[gizelnort.livejournal.com]

Fun this one: What did you major in in college and why?

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Short answer: Linguistics, 'cause I like language.

Longer answer: I started out in Engineering, planning to be a ChemE. I pretty quickly decided I didn't like that and spent the next couple of years flailing around looking for a major. I considered Math Education, Psychology, and a few other things before settling on Linguistics, entirely because talking about word choices, pragmatics, and morphology is fascinating to me. All the flailing meant I had a very broad education, and took an extra couple of semesters to finish, but it's all good.

[curiouskendra.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know you started as ChemE. I knew you were in Engineering, but I thought you were mechanical or something.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I really *should* have done Computer Science/Engineering, but I was an idiot kid with no patience for taking classes that duplicated stuff I had figured out on my own or taken in high school. I don't know if you know, but I took AP Computer Science (Pascal) as a HS sophomore, after being a self-taught whiz at BASIC. Taking basic (not BASIC though) programming at the college level filled me with disdain. I got through my first semester FORTRAN class (which was what non-computer engineering students took at the time) but HATED it, especially the way you had to do stuff in batches and pick up printouts and crap like that. If I had a time machine, that's the one thing I would consider going back and convincing my younger self to change. Except that I'd be terrified to interfere with anything before my kids were born, 'cause I wouldn't want to screw that up.