Category: Fun stuff

Heather hit me with this. I’m not sure I know 5 people that read this blog to tag though. I’m not even sure there are 5 little known things about me. I’m sure there are, but I already know them. I just don’t know if other people know them. I guess I’ll just pick out a few random things that I think people might not know.

1. I volunteer at the SC Aquarium about every other weekend. I work with the birds: preparing diets, cleaning out their cages, setting them out on display. It’s a lot different from what I normally do which is probably why I enjoy it.
2. I played viola for about 8 years between grades 4-11. I was pretty good at it too and probably would have been better had I practiced a little more.
3. I used to be an avid road cyclist back home in Edmonton. With all the bike trails criss-crossing the city and the river valley, it’s a great place to ride. It started with a high school bike trip through the Rockies around the Jasper National Park area. I haven’t ridden since I moved to the US though.
4. I didn’t own my first car until I was 26, when I moved to Detroit. Before that I either rode my bike where ever I needed to go or took the bus. I knew my way around town better on a bike than I did in a car.
5. I started my undergrad career with the plan of getting into theoretical astrophysics. Stellar and galactic evolution was something I found very interesting. But like most undergrads, I ended up changing my mind and deciding that medical physics would be a much more interesting field.

I think I’ll try tagging (if any of them are reading…):

• Tom
• Geoff
• Rick
• Mike
• whoever else happens to be reading this

You Are a Snowflake

You live for the winter – blizzards, cold nights, snowball fights! The holidays are just a bonus!

Nabbed from various LC bloggers

Nabbed from Heather who nabbed it from Mike
Favorite food to crunch: Corn nuts
Favorite comfort food: Rice porridge (congee)
Food that makes the best noise: Anything that sizzles on a hot pan
Favorite picnic lunch: Sammiches
Favorite food scene in a movie: The segment in Eat Drink Man Woman where the dad spends the whole morning making up dim sum dishes
Favorite food lyrics: Peaches by Presidents of the USA
Least favorite food lyrics: Can’t think of any
Best food smell memory: The smells inside a real Chinese restaurant (not the cheesy Chinese buffet places).
Favorite summer snack: Strawberries
Food that reminds me of the ocean: Anything fish.
Favorite winter snack: Hot chocolate.
Most likely Favorite thing to eat for lunch: Chili and fries
Least likely to eat for lunch: Liver and onions in the cafeteria.
Makes me gag: Cilantro
Food tradition I don’t like: Anything made with bean paste
Saturday night food: Don’t really have any regular saturday night foods.
Favorite wild foods: Any kind of Pacific Salmon
Favorite medicinal food: Honey
Food that reflects my heritage: Dim sum
Food most like me: Chocolate. Simple, sweet and melts when warm.
Favorite raw food smell: Does chocolate count as a raw food?