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June 27, 2003
Friday Five
1. How are you planning to spend the summer [winter]? Working on another undergrad degree. Woo-freakin-hoo.
2. What was your first summer job? You mean my first real paying job that my mother didn't' have to beat me to get me to do it? That would've been a job at the ripe old age of 12, grading tomatoes at a tomato packing plant. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it means I stood on an upturned bucket beside a conveyor belt and picked out any tomatoes that were too small, blemished, whatever before they were packed for shipping. I think I was paid $1.15 per hour. A violation of OSHA/child labor laws? Hahahahahaha. Of course it was. But it was much easier than the work I'd been doing at home on the farm. I was in heaven.
3. If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go? To a sunny beach of course. Or maybe a houseboat off the Keys, fish all day, sleep like a baby all night.
4. What was your worst vacation ever? When I was 12 or so, my parents, my sis & future brother in law & I went camping on the Buffalo River at a place called Step Eddy. About 1 am, a severe thunderstorm came down the river & we had to leave because the river was rising so fast. So we had to strike the tent & pack everything in a downpour, high winds, lightning...and then carry everything, including our 16 ft. johnboat, to the truck, up a long steep bank that had turned to mud...in which you would sink with every step past your knees. Then my dad had to back the truck down a narrow washed-out trail in the dark for almost a mile. My sis, my future bro-in-law & I had to ride home in the back of the truck, on top of all our stuff, under a tarp in the pouring rain. It sucked.
5. What was your best vacation ever? When Mike & I got married in the fall of 2000, we spent 10 days in NYC for our honeymoon. We had a blast.
Posted by Rita at June 27, 2003 03:46 PM