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beetiger ([personal profile] beetiger) wrote2005-02-25 08:43 pm

10 (or so) things

1) I was on exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.
2) I recieved a Master of Arts degree in a hard science.
3) I dropped out of nursery school.
4) I've found herkimer diamonds lying sparkling on the ground after a hard snow without panning or digging for them.
5) I was a nude model while pregnant.
6) My high school burned to the ground.
7) I can walk into a grocery store and buy foods I have invented.
8) I found a baby snake in the toilet in my home.
9) I performed in both the male and female choruses in one performance of the same fully-staged Gilbert and Sullivan show.
10) I missed a job interview due to sliding off the road and on to someone's front lawn. The person who helped me was very nice, but thought I was Mennonite.
Bonus!)I had three drunken frat boys come out of the closet(literally)of my dorm room, interrupting me and my visiting sweetie.

[identity profile] thesqueak.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
#8 - I find myself checking the toilet every once and a while to make sure there aren't snakes there. I read a book when I was in elementary school where a girl found a snake in the toilet, and I've been a little paranoid about it ever since. And that's with thinking that it couldn't happen!
Thanks for validating my paranoia. ;)

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, having lost a baby snake makes it quite a bit more likely. Though I was still surprised -- it hadbeen gone for weeks, and we assumed it had gone into the walls or the cat had gotten it.

[identity profile] sydb42.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
#7 Is this food that is available nationwide or locally? I'm curious if I could buy food you invented at MY grocery store. :)

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely! I've worked on Haagen Dazs ice creams, Slim-Fast, Seagram's wine coolers, and Diet Pepsi/Pepsi One, plus probably some other things I'm forgetting.

[identity profile] cktraveler.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Which Haagen Dazs flavors (or would it not be a specific flavor)?

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-28 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
A bunch of them, though the ones I'm proudest of are the Vanilla and Chocolate Mousse soft-serves (only in the shops, not supermarkets, alas.) I also helped fix Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough when it was broken.

[identity profile] cktraveler.livejournal.com 2005-02-28 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! I think I've had that!

[identity profile] featheredfrog.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
When I worked for Maxwell House I worked on:

  • Maxwell House International Coffees, (a failed coffee-frozen-dessert project),

  • The Plastic Brick Pack, to replace the paper sack sold (then) mostly in Southern States,

  • Remember "Max Pax"?

and a number of others.

Are the coffee "flakes" still being sold?
[Lots of coffee, an unused cornflaker machine found in a back corner of the "lab", some free time...]

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-28 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know you were in the industry!
*thinks*
Actually, I'm not at all sure where I know you from at all.

Who the heck are you, anyway?!? :)

[identity profile] featheredfrog.livejournal.com 2005-02-28 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
    Who the heck are you, anyway?


I've been trying to figure that out for a LOOONG time.

I don't think we've ever met - my time at Maxwell House was in the mid-70s.

We DO seem to have a lot of lj-friends in common, though.

http://www.ancientpond.com/short_bio.html

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
That is really, really cool.

[identity profile] juliansinger.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Wow. Can I get explanations on #1 and #10? A /Mennonite/?

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
I was working in Museum Reproductions, and they were casting the Tyrannosaurus without wated to dismantle it. So we worked on exhibit during regular museum hours. I told little kids we were putting the skin back on and trying to bring it back to life.

I think the Mennonite thing was because I was wearing my very long hair in a braid along the back of my head, had on a conservative and formal-for-Ithaca sort of dress, and was obviously not very used to driving. :P I didn't really understand it.

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
wated -> wanting. Erg, late.

[identity profile] cktraveler.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, I have to ask this ...

For #6, was it full of vampires at the time?

[identity profile] collie13.livejournal.com 2005-02-26 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
No! No, it wasn't, not at all! It was... asbestos! Yeah -- it was full of harmful asbestos, really! ;)

[identity profile] atroposnomore.livejournal.com 2005-02-27 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
wow. you have one hell of an interesting life!

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2005-02-28 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's been fun so far.

[identity profile] marrionettegirl.livejournal.com 2005-02-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
wow, so much!
i dropped outta nursery school too, but that wasnt my choice *smirk*

:)
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