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100 things, stolen! April 27, 2007

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This is stolen from American Family and Chicago Mom!

100 things about Spacemom

  1. I really like Buffalo New York
  2. I am starting to really enjoy Boston Massachusetts
  3. I am the second child of a two child family
  4. My sister is 5 years older than me
  5. My mom had 5 pregnancies
  6. Mom fell down a flight of stairs when she was 3 months pregnant with me and broke the amniotic sac
  7. The doctor told her to rest and then told Dad outside of the room that she would lose this pregnancy
  8. She didn’t
  9. I was a loner in elementary school
  10. I only had 2 close friends
  11. In Middle school, the circle grew to include 2 more
  12. I still talk to 2 of these women on a semi-regular basis
  13. Crazy H is one of these friends
  14. She lives 20 minutes from me now
  15. We met when I was 4
  16. My best friend now lives in the same small town we grew up in
  17. She has 2 kids
  18. And she is a widow
  19. Her husband died in the Army
  20. I will never forget that day, January 6, 2000
  21. He was 22 days shy of 30 years old
  22. I have always loved astronomy
  23. Since I was 5, I would watch satellites when we went camping
  24. I hated camping
  25. And spiders. I hate spiders
  26. I once could name all 88 constellations
  27. I can still identify most of the Northern ones within a few minutes in a dark site
  28. My first telescope was a cheap one.
  29. It took me almost 30 minutes to get the moon in view
  30. I was scared to look in the telescope because I might see something scary
  31. I worked at 3 different places during high school and college
  32. The first was the museum of science in Buffalo.
  33. The first signs of overt racism came in when people asked me if I was scared to drive there
  34. I wasn’t scared and only once people mentioned it did I notice the area was predominately African-American
  35. The second was an amusement park that is now owned by Six Flags.
  36. I worked in the commissary
  37. I loved making popcorn
  38. It would take 1 hour to make 10 garbage bags full of popcorn
  39. I loved mixing the sugar and cotton candy flavor
  40. I would sneeze pink or blue after mixing it up for hours
  41. When an apple fell in the candy mix one day, I got a 3rd degree burn on my finger.
  42. The park wanted me to just work through it
  43. I insisted on going to a doctor.
  44. I got fired the day I refused to sell beer because it would have left two 14 year olds in the commissary to do all of the work.
  45. In New York state, 14 years olds can not touch knifes in the work place
  46. We had peppers and onions to prepare that day
  47. I was disgusted by the quest for profit over safety
  48. I worked nights at a local department store
  49. I was the only woman on a stocking crew
  50. We would race around the store at night in shopping carts
  51. My team often won!
  52. When I was 10, a family member tried to commit suicide
  53. It didn’t work, but it set up family counseling
  54. I was the one person who never talked in the sessions
  55. Nobody cared that I didn’t talk
  56. I started to withdraw
  57. I fell in love with a kid at school
  58. Everyone knew I had a crush on him
  59. He was scared of me
  60. I was obsessive
  61. I still wonder where he is
  62. I decided to apply to schools in New York only because Dad had lost his job
  63. In the end, I only applied to one school, University of Stony Brook
  64. I got in
  65. I loved it
  66. Long Island hair scared me and I never understood how people did that
  67. My first roommate was from Staten Island and incredibly racist
  68. College was the first time I met a Jewish person, an Indian person and an African-American
  69. One of my best friends was Indian
  70. Her family was very strict with her
  71. She tried to commit suicide in sophomore year
  72. Her family took her out of school and made her get married in an arranged marriage that she didn’t want
  73. I went to her wedding, but have not heard from her again
  74. After she left, I would go up to the chemistry building and stare out the plate glass windows at night
  75. I often considered running down the hallway and not stopping at the glass
  76. I never did it
  77. I went through a very depressive stage during college
  78. I discovered that going to the Long Island Sound or the ocean calmed me.
  79. I discovered that rough seas made me feel better
  80. That discovery disturbed me
  81. My first boyfriend dumped me when I started going to the mental health clinic
  82. I was devastated
  83. I threw myself into thermal dynamics and raised my C average to an A- for the year
  84. I started working as a resident assistant to start things over
  85. The woman that I took over for had woken up in her bed with a strange man next to her watching her.
  86. I got her room
  87. It scared the shit out of me
  88. I started a job in the astronomy program
  89. There was a grad student working on observations, I signed up one night a week
  90. It was Jay
  91. We worked together for almost a year before he asked me out
  92. I said no
  93. After I broke up with another guy, we started dating
  94. I was still working for him
  95. I applied to grad schools, but decided to stay with Jay
  96. I was the first planned Master’s degree in the astro program at SB
  97. Jay got offers for jobs in Germany, they would have taken me in the PhD program
  98. Instead, he took his current job
  99. I was officially hired here before he was
  100. One hundred things is not as many as I thought

Comments»

1. carosgram - April 27, 2007

Love this post and feel I know you a lot better now.

2. Sherrie - May 1, 2007

Same here!

Sherrie in HB