Friday Happy Hour

Just thought I'd add: every Friday, one of the bloggers on mentalfloss.com (awesome website, btw) does a series of un-related questions meant to spark conversation. I try to answer them on my off hour every Friday and then read other people's responses. Last week, a friend of mine who recently moved to Ohio called me up and said "I'm reading something on mentalfloss..." and proceeded to read me my entire post and then ask if it were me. She said "I thought this sounded like my Heather." LOL. So... anyway, it's a great blog, and a great forum, both for discovering things about yourself, and for reconnecting (indirectly) with old friends. Who knows what (or who) might turn up?

Here's a link to today's blog--read the questions and answers, some of them are really neat. Sometimes it makes you wish you could meet the people who are writing these answers!
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/53792

Btw, below are today's questions and MY answers:
1. What’s a relatively insignificant event that changed your life forever?
2. What character from a book would you most like to spend a weekend with?
3. Did you ever participate in ‘Take Your Daughter/Son to Work Day,’ either as a child or parent?
4.Did your college have any unique graduation traditions the rest of us should know about?


Okay, so relatively insignificant event that changed my life forever: when one of my oldest (and best) friends decided to move from Louisiana to Maryland, I went by her house to help her pack the last bit of her belongings. Even though I was very sad that she was moving, I expected it to be a rather traditional throw-things-in-boxes-and-label-them night. What I didn’t expect was for her to ask me, casually, if I would like to spend the summer in Europe with my college’s study abroad and then proceed to pay for the entire thing (except my spending money). It changed my life forever, because up to that point, I’d never even been on a plane! Now I’m a travel bug–I go somewhere new every summer (on my own dime), and it’s all thanks to a good friend!

If I could meet (let alone spend the entire weekend with) any character from any book, I think I would like to spend time with Anne Shirley, circa the Anne’s House of Dreams days when she was newly married, no children, and still as fresh-faced as ever. I would desperately like to know if I fit into the “race that knows Joseph” because Anne reminds me so much of myself as a child and even as a young woman that I think we would get along. I must admit that meeting Cornelia Bryant would be almost an additional perk. And I would love to meet Capt’n Jim and read his “Life Book!”

I don’t have children, but when I was a child my mother took me to work with her one day as a part of a “job-shadowing” activity my school was doing. She worked at a Super 10 retail store and I don’t remember much of the day except that she got me to help her stock shelves and clean the floors. If it was a ploy to keep me college bound, it worked. Even though I have worked fast food and retail while I was in college, I managed to stick it out and graduate and now am a high school teacher. No more stocking shelves!!!

No unique graduation traditions here, I didn’t even decorate my cap (couldn’t think of anything original, and by the time I did, my dominate hand was in cast and I didn’t trust anyone else to do it). Sorry!

posted by Heather on 4-23-2010 at 11:01

Go read 'em and answer 'em for yourself!!!