Borrowing a meme

In spite of my best intentions, the number of posts I've actually written and, well, posted, has fallen precipitously, even for me. It's not that I haven't wanted to post. Its just that I've been a little short on spare time. That and the inability to think of a worthy topic to blog about. Well I finally have a bit of extra time. At least I'm going to take a bit of extra time. I just submitted not one, but two manuscripts so I think I deserve a bit of down time. That just leaves the challenge of deciding what to blog about, and I've solved that problem by borrowing a meme that is going around the Science blogosphere. So with out further ado, I give you "The 5 Things Meme." 5 Things I was Doing 10 years Ago:

1. Observing the feeding behavior of European corn borers.
2. Trying to decide where I wanted to do a PhD.
3. Playing lots of board games with fellow grad students.
4. Cooking fabulous food with veggies from our garden
5. Reading as many Sci-fi books as I could manage (for a while there I was reading 1 per day)

5 Things On My To-Do List Today:

1. Write at least 1 blog post
2. Plan/design experiments for tomorrow.
3. Read about/plan experiments for new study
4. Request and examinaton copy of a new science book I've been coveting.
5. Go the the public library with the family to check out new books for my little monkeys.

5 Snacks I Love:

1. Chocolate
2. Cookies
3. Doughnuts
4. Roasted pumpkin seeds
5. Crisp apples

5 Things I Would Do If I Were A Millionaire:

1. Buy a house with large tracks of land.
2. Take an extended to Australia and New Zealand
3. Set up college funds for my 2 girls.
4. Make huge donations to Woman's Hospital NICU and the March of Dimes
5. Buy some John Fluevog shoes.

5 Places I've Lived:

1. 4th floor dorm room with the roommate from Hell.
2. Middle class neighborhood in Colorado Springs
3. Little town in north Alabama
4. Barely big enough for 2 people apartment in Rocket City, Alabama
5. Southern Louisiana

5 Jobs I've Had:

1. Pizza artist
2. Bookseller
3. Coffee barista
4. Student
5. Student (I spent enough time as a student that I feel it deserves at least 2 places on my list.)

Question of the day

I covet an expensive new science book that is not really affordable with my current postdoc salary. Publisher is offering free copies to people interested in teaching a class based on this book. Would it be wrong for me to request a free copy even though I have no plans to teach any classes anytime within the next, oh, 2-5 years?