I got this from EcoGeoFemme over at The Happy Scientist. (You should check her blog out; it is lovely.)
I love memes because they often give me more ideas for posts plus they give me an extra day or two to let my little thoughts percolate a bit more.
My answers are in no particular order, by the way.
8 passions
1. teaching
2. cheese
3. my research project
4. travel-- I love planning trips and love exploring new places and cultures
5. family-- I only see them once a year, but they mean everything to me
6. college football
7. blogging (mostly reading them)
8. flickring
8 things to do before I die
1. get married
2. have/adopt children
3. visit my sponsor child in Africa (the agency I go through absolutely supports/encourages this)
4. learn Spanish
5. cook for myself
6. live near my family!
7. go to Japan
8. wear a bikini in public
8 things I often say
1. seriously
2. like (it's soooo bad, I know. Luckily, this obnoxious habit usually disappears when I give presentations or have scientific discussions)
3. f*ck / sh*t (I have a terrible mouth. Bad, I know)
4. dude
5. nuts
6. no
7. oh, cute!
8. cool
8 books I recently read (yeah, I'm going to count magazines, too, because I seriously (see?!) don't read pleasure books except when I fly)
1. Newsweek
2. C&E News
3. The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton (finished by Marion Mainwaring)
4. Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Kinetics by Engel and Reid
5. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
7. Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
8. National Geographic
8 songs that mean something to me
1. “Brown eyed girl" by Van Morrison ('cause I am!)
2. “Maneater" by Nelly Furtado (do I really need to explain?)
3. Anything from Sound of Music. (It all actually makes me cringe, but it makes me think of my mom because she can watch that movie over and over and over.)
4. "I f**king hate you" by Godsmack (because sometimes it's necessary...this gets played a lot at work and at the gym)
5. “Crazy b*tch" by buckcherry (reminds me of a summer of years past)
6. “Every day should be a holiday" by the Dandy Warhols (because it SHOULD)
7. "Bueck Dich" or anything else from Rammstein's Live Aus Berlin album (reminds me of how I feel after finishing a manuscript--awesome!--because I seem to only be able to write when listening to really angry German music)
8. "Jugo a la Vida" by Los Tucanes de Tijuana (such happy, happy music!)
8 qualities I look for in a friend
1. loyal
2. smart
3. open minded
4. hard working (yeah, that might be a little odd, but I really have a hard time not judging people by their work ethic)
5. funny
6. kind
7. down to earth
8. common interests
8 people whose blogs I enjoy
1. an englishman in osaka
2. brazen hussy
3. disgruntled julie
4. female science professor
5. profgrrrrl
6. post doc ergo propter doc
7. the happy scientist
8. young female scientist
