Birthday-tag

I'm quite resistant about doing tag-posts like the one below. However, I never did a new year-review, and today just happens to be my birthday (which, for the record, should include small spring flowers outside and no snow (although, apparently it did snow in my home town today - first snow of the year..!)), which is kind of suitable for this kind of exercise. So here you go, Jess ;)

1. What was I doing ten years ago?
I'd need my photo albums or diaries for this..! Although, I have a fairly good idea. Listening to BeeGee's, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel on my LP player until late in the evenings, spending lots of time with friends, studying 2nd and 3rd year courses at Physics Engineering, anguishing bigtime over said courses, feeling like Sisyfos, and, finally slowly beginning to realise who I was and what I needed to do. Although, that happened really one year later.

2. 5 things on my to do list today.
1. TA
2. Finish my extra check of NGC 3556 to figure out if I need to include its bulge or not in the mas smodeling.
3. Do taxes (hm, perhaps I should reconsider)
4. Find some twigs for the cage I imported so Merry and Pippin can start enjoying their new home (if I know them correctly, the first sentiments will probably be highest suspicion...)
5. Buy flowers (strict orders from my mom)

3. What snacks do I enjoy?
Chocolate, dark, expensive.

4. What would I do if I suddenly were a billionaire?
Hm. The same as now, I suppose: Save, travel, hopefully not get used to having lots of money and spend too much, and spend too much time doing that... But yes, I would get rid of CSN in my life, once and for all (i.e. student debts). Pay my brother for the Ibook with a suitable interest :) If time, build a summer house on Tjörn or perhaps buy Staregården in Onsala.

5. Three bad habits
Oh, public self examination? Procrastination of whatever reason. Just repeat 3 times.

6. Five places I've lived
Winnipeg (Canada), Göteborg, Onsala, Sweden, Tofta (or Varberg), Stockholm, all in Sweden.

7. Five jobs I have had
1. Teaching Assistant in physics and astronomy
2. Commercial hot-air ballooning retrieve driver
3. Dairy slave (in the fridge)
4. Observatory guide
5. Packaging stuff at a nuclear power plant (much less exciting than it sounds)

8. Five things people don't know about me (this is worse than the bad habits! there'd be a reason for them not knowing it, eh? Let's see if I can dig out some more pleasant skeletons from my wardrobe, pink ones or so...
1. Collected stamps (as well as everything: erasers, chocolate papers, letter paper, little stickers that smelled yummy)
2. ...
No. I can't come up with anything more than utterly silly things. People who know me, know me fairly well, nothing unknown that is worth writing about, I think.

9. 8 Fears
1. Losing hope
2. Losing love
3. Losing faith
4. Pain inflicted upon family members and other loved ones
5. Turning apathetic (probably same as 1, but I ran out of scary things)
6. Seeing as I was being chased by zombies in a dream last night (and saved by my mom driving the volkswagen van! the rest of the family was there too, but I found it interesting that she was driving it. I normally refuse to interpret my dreams, but this particular scene I think represented security), I can fill out the rest with less probably items, or silly ones: Zombies
7. Anything that would suck my blood (excluding mosquitoes, they are just annoying)
8. And, anything that brings out anger, and inability to stop the anger (that's part of the first more serious category though)

End of tag.
I won't tag anyone, but, I'll invent something back for Jess in the future, I think...