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10 years ago
I was getting ready to enter a graduate program in public health, after taking three years off to get over the absolute end of my marriage and law school. I had just started a new job, which was the second job I’d ever had in my life—as an administrative assistant to a professor of public health. I was full of hope and excitement. After being coddled and spoiled for 15 years, I was eager to show the world that I could make it on my own. I was going to study a field that held great interest for me and that would enable me to "save the world", and I was hoping that I would get a great paying job with my advanced degree. I had three children who were 10, 11, and 13 years old.
5 years ago
I was adjusting to the working life. With my graduate degree, I had gotten a $27, 500 a year position with a public health agency. With three teenage children, that did not go far! My boss at the time knew I really wanted to continue work in academia, hopefully as an advisor for students. I had worked in this area as a graduate student and I absolutely loved it. With his help, I got a job helping to set up the public health program at another university. I loved that job, loved my new boss, but hated her successor. I stayed there for a year and a half, then moved on to a real public health position as a program manager at a prestigious medical center. That lasted three months and began 2 years of unemployment (1 year because of cancer) and extreme deprivation. I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to get another job……and now I appreciate every second of employment I currently have. After having 2 icky bosses in a row, I really appreciate and love my current boss. She is great.
In 2000, I also started to date, after being alone for 11 years. I chose the guy carefully, or so I thought. After a few months, I discovered that I was really the “other woman”. His girlfriend was completing her residency in San Francisco, while he completed his in Los Angeles. So that ended that. I met the guy I have been seeing on and off for the last 4 years.
1 year ago
A year ago, I was celebrating the end of my first year at my current job, and a year and a half of cancer survivorship. I love everything about my job, except my salary.
Yesterday
Yesterday, I was stressed out because I had a deadline to meet. I stayed at the office until 10 p.m. last night. Then I realized my deadline was self-imposed and so I went home and had a great night’s sleep. My papers are due this coming Friday.
Today
Today is the first day of my HMR diet. It is now 5 p.m. and I have been faithful or “on” the diet without cheating. That is a major accomplishment! I want to lose 50 pounds, but will settle for 15 pounds over the first couple of months, if I make it that long. I can’t really afford this diet, but I want to start dating again and I know I had better look good!
Tomorrow
Tomorrow I have no real plans. I will do some stuff from my to-do list. I will be good on my diet. I will clean up my office.
5 snacks I enjoy
French fries
Nuts
Fruit—especially tropical fruits like mangos and papayas.
Chocolate
I also really like Filipino desserts A LOT. But really, almost anything that is sweet, or salty and crispy.
5 bands/singers that I know the lyrics of MOST of their songs
Kenny Loggins—my absolute favorite! And that is about it.
Things I would do with $100,000,000
First of all, I would not tell my children about my windfall. Then I would ensure my children’s future with trust funds to be doled out to them in a responsible way so that they would still feel the need to work and be productive citizens and raise my future grandchildren to be productive citizens as well. Also, I would tithe a healthy percentage of the money to the church (not necessarily just the Catholic church, but to religious organizations that work for the public good, especially charity work).
Then, I would secure my own future with investments and real estate. I would still work at my job, though. I would cut my hours down to half-time and hire an assistant, but I would still work. I love my job that much.
Third, I would endow all the schools my children and I have ever attended with scholarships for underprivileged children. These include the parochial Catholic schools of my youth and my children’s elementary schools, Harvard-Westlake School, Cate School, Barnard College/Columbia University, Tufts University, and Carnegie-Mellon University, UCLA English Department, Law School, and Public Health, as well as a big big big donation to USC (but not to the Department of Public Health. For undergrad eduation, perhaps.)! Education is big with me! My children are scholarship kids and went to prep schools and elite colleges because good people out there felt that my children could excel in school and life with a little financial help. I would like to make sure that other kids would have the same opportunities as my children.
I would also endow some college schools/departments with scholarships for single parents. I would establish free/low cost day care centers for infants to teenagers in the inner city so that parents could leave their children in good hands and not worry while they work. This would increase productivity on the parents’ part and prevent wrong turns on the children’s part. I would fund public health programs for children and the elderly. I would establish a foundation that would help foster children develop job skills/go to college/transition to the real world. I would hire lobbyists for Sacramento and Washington, D.C. to further my own very liberal social and political agenda, which would focus mainly on education and public health issues. I would make major contributions to the Democratic Party to ensure that we win or maintain a Democratic president. I would establish a foundation to counter all the mis-information that we have had to endure for the last two presidential terms, well, really since the 1980s, with the exception of the Clinton years.
I would do an Angelina Jolie and contribute to already existing foundations to help world poverty and hunger. I would send a chunk of money to foundations in the Philippines and in war torn countries, not only to help re-build the infrastructure but also to help with children and poor families.
After a long day of doing good (see above), I would like to be able to go to my brand new home in Pacific Palisades or Beverly Park and get a massage. I would like to have Pilates every day. I would like to hire a personal trainer to whip me into shape, and a chef to cook low-carb balanced meals for me. I would like to look in the mirror and not see rolls and flab, wrinkles and grey roots. So, I guess that means lots and lots of chemical peels and a standing weekly appointment at the hair dresser. My friends and I have already agreed that if any of us ever wins the mega lotto, then we have to treat our friends to any plastic surgery of our choice in Brazil, the home of the best plastic surgeons!
5 locations I’d like to run away to
Santa Barbara
Fiji
New Zealand
Napa Valley
Taos
(these are all assuming I have the money to maintain a lifestyle there!)
5 bad habits I have
Procrastinating
Laziness
Yelling
Eating too much
Cussing
5 things I like doing
Knitting
Reading, hanging out at bookstores
Talking on the phone
Flirting
Traveling
5 things I would never wear
Anything that shows my fat arms
Miniskirts (Fat legs)
Bra-less blouses (saggy boobs)
Crop tops (flabby tummy, saggy boobs)
Bikinis (stretch marks, flabby tummy, big butt. Oh, face it, my whole body is gross!)
5 TV shows I like
I like reality shows, believe it or not. My favorite right now: Hooking Up.
Law and Order
CSI
Network and Local News, especially the Sunday network news shows
That finance show with Maria Bartolomo. I love her hair.
5 movies I like
I am not really a movie fan, but my favorite movie of all time is Gone with the Wind.
5 famous people I’d like to meet
Do these people have to be alive now? If yes, here are
my choices:
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Kenny Loggins—I love his music
I can’t think of anyone else.
5 biggest joys at the moment
My kids, in and of themselves
My kids’ academic and life accomplishments, which up to now have been very rewarding for me, if not for them.
Knitting
Exercise
Lying in bed all weekend
5 favorite toys
My Treo phone, which holds my whole life—-calendar, quicken, internet, address book, photos, etc.
My 3 knitting machines, which keep me busy and happy. My kids like the machines, too, as knitting keeps me engrossed and less inclined to get on their cases.
My falling apart Mazda, which takes me wherever I want to go!
My laptop, which also takes me wherever I want to go!
I have another favorite toy, but I don’t think I want to put it in writing…….
That is it! This was fun, but time-consuming.
Well, it looks like I cannot load photos from my work computer. I don't know why.
10 years ago
I was getting ready to enter a graduate program in public health, after taking three years off to get over the absolute end of my marriage and law school. I had just started a new job, which was the second job I’d ever had in my life—as an administrative assistant to a professor of public health. I was full of hope and excitement. After being coddled and spoiled for 15 years, I was eager to show the world that I could make it on my own. I was going to study a field that held great interest for me and that would enable me to "save the world", and I was hoping that I would get a great paying job with my advanced degree. I had three children who were 10, 11, and 13 years old.
5 years ago
I was adjusting to the working life. With my graduate degree, I had gotten a $27, 500 a year position with a public health agency. With three teenage children, that did not go far! My boss at the time knew I really wanted to continue work in academia, hopefully as an advisor for students. I had worked in this area as a graduate student and I absolutely loved it. With his help, I got a job helping to set up the public health program at another university. I loved that job, loved my new boss, but hated her successor. I stayed there for a year and a half, then moved on to a real public health position as a program manager at a prestigious medical center. That lasted three months and began 2 years of unemployment (1 year because of cancer) and extreme deprivation. I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to get another job……and now I appreciate every second of employment I currently have. After having 2 icky bosses in a row, I really appreciate and love my current boss. She is great.
In 2000, I also started to date, after being alone for 11 years. I chose the guy carefully, or so I thought. After a few months, I discovered that I was really the “other woman”. His girlfriend was completing her residency in San Francisco, while he completed his in Los Angeles. So that ended that. I met the guy I have been seeing on and off for the last 4 years.
1 year ago
A year ago, I was celebrating the end of my first year at my current job, and a year and a half of cancer survivorship. I love everything about my job, except my salary.
Yesterday
Yesterday, I was stressed out because I had a deadline to meet. I stayed at the office until 10 p.m. last night. Then I realized my deadline was self-imposed and so I went home and had a great night’s sleep. My papers are due this coming Friday.
Today
Today is the first day of my HMR diet. It is now 5 p.m. and I have been faithful or “on” the diet without cheating. That is a major accomplishment! I want to lose 50 pounds, but will settle for 15 pounds over the first couple of months, if I make it that long. I can’t really afford this diet, but I want to start dating again and I know I had better look good!
Tomorrow
Tomorrow I have no real plans. I will do some stuff from my to-do list. I will be good on my diet. I will clean up my office.
5 snacks I enjoy
French fries
Nuts
Fruit—especially tropical fruits like mangos and papayas.
Chocolate
I also really like Filipino desserts A LOT. But really, almost anything that is sweet, or salty and crispy.
5 bands/singers that I know the lyrics of MOST of their songs
Kenny Loggins—my absolute favorite! And that is about it.
Things I would do with $100,000,000
First of all, I would not tell my children about my windfall. Then I would ensure my children’s future with trust funds to be doled out to them in a responsible way so that they would still feel the need to work and be productive citizens and raise my future grandchildren to be productive citizens as well. Also, I would tithe a healthy percentage of the money to the church (not necessarily just the Catholic church, but to religious organizations that work for the public good, especially charity work).
Then, I would secure my own future with investments and real estate. I would still work at my job, though. I would cut my hours down to half-time and hire an assistant, but I would still work. I love my job that much.
Third, I would endow all the schools my children and I have ever attended with scholarships for underprivileged children. These include the parochial Catholic schools of my youth and my children’s elementary schools, Harvard-Westlake School, Cate School, Barnard College/Columbia University, Tufts University, and Carnegie-Mellon University, UCLA English Department, Law School, and Public Health, as well as a big big big donation to USC (but not to the Department of Public Health. For undergrad eduation, perhaps.)! Education is big with me! My children are scholarship kids and went to prep schools and elite colleges because good people out there felt that my children could excel in school and life with a little financial help. I would like to make sure that other kids would have the same opportunities as my children.
I would also endow some college schools/departments with scholarships for single parents. I would establish free/low cost day care centers for infants to teenagers in the inner city so that parents could leave their children in good hands and not worry while they work. This would increase productivity on the parents’ part and prevent wrong turns on the children’s part. I would fund public health programs for children and the elderly. I would establish a foundation that would help foster children develop job skills/go to college/transition to the real world. I would hire lobbyists for Sacramento and Washington, D.C. to further my own very liberal social and political agenda, which would focus mainly on education and public health issues. I would make major contributions to the Democratic Party to ensure that we win or maintain a Democratic president. I would establish a foundation to counter all the mis-information that we have had to endure for the last two presidential terms, well, really since the 1980s, with the exception of the Clinton years.
I would do an Angelina Jolie and contribute to already existing foundations to help world poverty and hunger. I would send a chunk of money to foundations in the Philippines and in war torn countries, not only to help re-build the infrastructure but also to help with children and poor families.
After a long day of doing good (see above), I would like to be able to go to my brand new home in Pacific Palisades or Beverly Park and get a massage. I would like to have Pilates every day. I would like to hire a personal trainer to whip me into shape, and a chef to cook low-carb balanced meals for me. I would like to look in the mirror and not see rolls and flab, wrinkles and grey roots. So, I guess that means lots and lots of chemical peels and a standing weekly appointment at the hair dresser. My friends and I have already agreed that if any of us ever wins the mega lotto, then we have to treat our friends to any plastic surgery of our choice in Brazil, the home of the best plastic surgeons!
5 locations I’d like to run away to
Santa Barbara
Fiji
New Zealand
Napa Valley
Taos
(these are all assuming I have the money to maintain a lifestyle there!)
5 bad habits I have
Procrastinating
Laziness
Yelling
Eating too much
Cussing
5 things I like doing
Knitting
Reading, hanging out at bookstores
Talking on the phone
Flirting
Traveling
5 things I would never wear
Anything that shows my fat arms
Miniskirts (Fat legs)
Bra-less blouses (saggy boobs)
Crop tops (flabby tummy, saggy boobs)
Bikinis (stretch marks, flabby tummy, big butt. Oh, face it, my whole body is gross!)
5 TV shows I like
I like reality shows, believe it or not. My favorite right now: Hooking Up.
Law and Order
CSI
Network and Local News, especially the Sunday network news shows
That finance show with Maria Bartolomo. I love her hair.
5 movies I like
I am not really a movie fan, but my favorite movie of all time is Gone with the Wind.
5 famous people I’d like to meet
Do these people have to be alive now? If yes, here are
my choices:
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Kenny Loggins—I love his music
I can’t think of anyone else.
5 biggest joys at the moment
My kids, in and of themselves
My kids’ academic and life accomplishments, which up to now have been very rewarding for me, if not for them.
Knitting
Exercise
Lying in bed all weekend
5 favorite toys
My Treo phone, which holds my whole life—-calendar, quicken, internet, address book, photos, etc.
My 3 knitting machines, which keep me busy and happy. My kids like the machines, too, as knitting keeps me engrossed and less inclined to get on their cases.
My falling apart Mazda, which takes me wherever I want to go!
My laptop, which also takes me wherever I want to go!
I have another favorite toy, but I don’t think I want to put it in writing…….
That is it! This was fun, but time-consuming.
Well, it looks like I cannot load photos from my work computer. I don't know why.
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