11.13.2008

Reader participation - part 1 (you're all growns up)

It's Thursday. Actually, it's a rainy, gray, cold Thursday. Nothing of significance has happened yet today, and I do not expect that to change before the day ends. It's just... Thursday. The only thing that today has going for it, is that it's one day away from Friday. What does one "blog" about in such situations? I've browsed the news, and found nothing but the usual depressing crap, such as; suicide bombers, bailouts, going-extinct gorillas, and talk of Palin running in 2012 (please, god, NO). I even perused my scattered list of unfinished, unposted blogs, but could not find the energy to complete a one.

And then it occurred to me. I don't have to write anything. Instead, YOU can do it for me! A much better idea, yes indeed. Besides, who wants to hear what I have to say all the time, it is my ass that does most of the typing, anyway. So here's what we're going to do... each Thursday, every Thursday (at least, until I realize that no one cares, right after this Thursday), I'm going to present a question to you, and it will be up to you, to ponder and then of course share your answer in the comments section. I'll keep the questions loosely based on the theme on this blog: Always remaining in progress.

Are you in? Yes? Good. Be careful though, answering the types of questions that I'm going to be asking might actually cause you to think, reflect, and maybe even learn yourself sumthin about yourself. Please heed my warning and be very careful. Ok, here we go.

Today's topic: Mikey's all growns up.
  1. When you were asked as a child, that damn annoying question, "And what do you want to be when you grow up?" How did you answer?
  2. When you were in school/college, how did your answer change?
  3. What is your answer to that question now?
  4. What are you actually doing now?

5 comments:

  1. I'll get us started each week...

    1. An astronaut. Wait, I STILL want to be an astronaut. Shit, I forgot.

    2. Started as an "undeclared" freshman, progressed to become a computer science sophomore (huge mistake), to finally settling on telecom. I really dug video production.

    3. Video editor/freelance writer/photographer/owner of small media production company/rocketeer/hard-core gangsta rapper.

    4. Instruction Technology Specialist for a local community college.

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  2. 1. I usually said race car driver, for some reason.
    2. My answer changed when I actually watched a Nascar race, by accident, and decided heck no.
    3. When I grow up, meaning a few years from now, I hope to get out of the lab and get into an office full-time.
    4. I do science. cancer biology. and love it.

    JRD

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  3. 1. The first woman president of the United States.

    2. & 3. I still want to be.

    4. I work as the admissions coordinator for a private school.

    I have always loved politics and continue to immerse myself in them...however, my political aspirations changed when I moved from MI because now that I am in NJ, I have to start all over again making connections and networking. I think I'll run for local office in the future and hopefully progress up through the ranks. Truthfully, I still believe I could achieve this goal...to the random reader it may sound crazy, but to anyone who knows me, it doesn't sound too far-fetched.....and now that Sarah Palin has hinted at her run in 2012, I have all the more motivation to make my dreams a reality.

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  4. I was waiting for your personally interrogative question of the week this past Thursday, what gives?

    JRD

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  5. I f'd up, sorry. My trip to Chicago knocked out my blogging time. I'm back on it, though... and contemplating a new question. I will have it posted momentarily.

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