OK, I'll play

Dogblogger tagged me for this meme today. What the heck. I don't have anything else of value to add the conversation today.

Rules:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about himself or herself. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Yadda yadda yadda.

Ten years ago:
Let's see...1998 was...a long time ago, but not. Ten years ago I was finally getting my act together to pursue my teaching credential. My 'career' at the paper co had dragged on long enough, and POM was encouraging me to do something useful...and was helping make it possible. This was also about the time our once-vibrant church began seriously to head south, which would lead to a trail of hurt and bitterness that has only within the past year begun truly to heal.

Five things on today's "to do" list:
- Grade effing essays
- Type minutes from the discipline committee meetings (three in as many weeks)
- Grade effing DJs (dialectical journals)
- Get my plagiarism referrals copied and submitted
- Grade (review) effing research papers so I can conference with students before next week's due date (oh for god's sake!)
- (I'm cheating and adding more) Finish tweaking my AP summer project for copying and presentation to next year's students
- Grade effing sophomore timed writings
- Write three pages in the a.m.
- Grade effing rhetorical precis and major works data sheets
- Sleep
- And stop effing cussing so much

Things I'd do if I was a billionaire:
- Pay off my sister's and parents' houses and set up trusts funds for them
- Buy a house with plenty of acreage in Mendocino
- Do the incredibly overdue work on our current house
- Outfit all my homes with solar energy
- Commission and buy a crazy souped-up hybrid or otherwise non-polluting automotive vehicle to prove that one actually can make an environmental SUV
- Start an experimental school that opens doors for more students to access relevant curriculum along the lines of those espoused by John Holt and John Taylor Gatto and Grace Llewellyn
- Fund ridiculous donations to Heifer, Food for the Hungry, Habitat, our church, and probably some crazy environmental group
- Set up a grant-making foundation for community service and education projects that will allow for innovative ideas to be tried without the red tape and typical bureaucratic bullshit that accompanies such grants

Three bad habits:
- Procrastinating (especially with grading)
- Eating too much and too late
- Failing to exercise or be active
- (I have more, but I won't cheat on this one. ;-)

Five places I've lived:
- podunk suburb of Greenville, SC
- tiny Sierra gold-mining and cowboy town of 2000, CA
- Great Smoggy Bowl called SoCal, CA
- Indianapolis, IN
- most of the lands and worlds and minds in the books I read

Five jobs I've had:
- Teacher and essay grader
- Toilet cleaner
- Executive secretary at paper co
- Babysitter
- Photographer

Five people I'm tagging:
Gawdess
Lomagirl
WhatNow
Ampersand
AudreyMango
(I'll try to remember to let them know.) :-)