I don't know why I was thinking about this today. I have met so many new people in my life that only know the person I am today and not much about who I am. So here is my list - Enjoy!
3 things you may not know about me, but tell you a lot about who I am
1) I once tried to get my hair to go fire engine red by bleaching it, then dyeing it red. It turned out orange. I looked like Ronald McDonald. Not the look I was going for. Then I grew it out, cut it and had flaming tips. Everyone wanted to know how to get that hairstyle.
2) I worked all sorts of camp counselor jobs. I used to do volunteer overnight shifts at the Boston Children's Museum for things like girl scout nights. I was a volunteer zoo camp assistant counselor for the Roger Williams Park Zoo one summer. I was even a counselor at YMCA camp outside Boston and even informally was promoted to arts and crafts director. At the Children's Museum, I learned Arnold Schwarzenegger was not that tall, I was on TV once for the RWPZ holding a gecko, and at the end of the YMCA stint, a camper accidentally got tempura paint on my eye and the incident left me covered in hives for a week, just before starting college.
3) I often worked multiple jobs at a time. During the YMCA summer, I was also hired to work nights and weekends at Marshall's in the accessories dept, where I could live out my dream to organize all the messy jewelry kiosks all day long. Working the register was also a highlight. But perhaps my favorite summer job was working at MIT. It was back when other people did your photocopying for you, and you could rent out time on an iMac for $10/hr. I think photocopying books of Putnam exams made me want even more to show that I could make it in the math world. But I loved it the most because I felt like it was family. I still think about them all the time.
smile emoticon My happy random thought for the day.
Do you have a short story that tells people about you? Feel free to share it in the comments.
