I've been tagged.
1. In 1988 I did an internship in Washington D.C. for Senator Howell Heflin. I had $500 to cover my costs for the entire summer - rent, food, transportation, entertainment. I managed to survive the summer but didn't have money to get back home so I took a job as a telemarketer for a non-profit called PIRG. It was absolutely awful and has given me a lifelong sympathy for telemarketers. I worked exactly one week - that was enough to buy the $189 plane ticket back to Alabama.
2. When I was fourteen I went on a crash diet and ate nothing but hot dogs for 6 weeks.
3. When I was in 7th grade my friend Chris Graves and I won second place for our science project called "What is the Effect of Junk Food on Mice?", in which we put two white mice in an empty fish tank, separated by a piece of plywood, and gave one of them regular mouse food and gave the other junk food (Cheetos and Orange soda) for 4 weeks but what we never told anyone was that overnight our mice kept jumping over the plywood into each others' cages and eating each others' food and in the morning Chris and I had to figure out which was which but we couldn't reliably tell them apart at all so we just picked one and put it back in the other cage.
4. I'm part Cherokee Indian. But not enough to have rights to any casino profits.
5. I worry that in 10 years I'll look back at my blog and be appalled at the content that I posted for everyone in the world to see.
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Posted by Forrest on January 26, 2007 at 02:34 PM CST #
Posted by melanie on January 26, 2007 at 02:44 PM CST #
500$ that's grim.
Your 5th point is why I am never ever going to write a blog. The web has elephant-like memory (thanks to Google cache).
Posted by Shubho on January 26, 2007 at 03:09 PM CST #
Posted by melanie gao on January 26, 2007 at 03:19 PM CST #
Posted by Exusexen on January 29, 2007 at 07:15 AM CST #
Posted by melanie gao on January 29, 2007 at 08:48 AM CST #
The junk food experiment (and the conclusion) reminds me of Don McMillan at CEC'05. One of his slides said (a) Your chances of getting Alzheimer's by age 85 are 1 in 10. (b) The average smoker lives to age 66. He then displayed what this could be spun as : Smoking lowers the chance of getting Alzheimer's.
OK, there wasn't a connection with the experiment, but the latter was just as funny :).
Posted by Santhosh D'Souza on February 06, 2007 at 02:58 PM CST #
what happens on the other mice? can you explain and detail everything?coz that's our project also...thanks!!
Posted by leobhel cueto on October 04, 2007 at 04:34 PM CST #
what happens on the other mice? can you explain and detail everything?coz that's our project also...thanks!!
Posted by leobhel cueto on October 04, 2007 at 04:38 PM CST #
Leobhel, the second mouse also died a couple of weeks after our science project ended. I'm not sure if it was due to the food we fed him, or because he was not a very healthy house to begin with or what. I can confirm that my partner and I were not very scientific at all with this project. I hope you're using more scientific discipline and that you're more humane to your lab mice than we were.
Best of luck to you with your experiment! :)
Posted by melanie gao on October 05, 2007 at 09:26 PM CST #