day 1:
lunch date
cleveland science museum
imax movie: roving mars
einstein exhibit [in honor of my kitten, for sure]
dinner w/ the future Rex’s
day 2:
5 1/2 hrs w/ my favorite prof. [Favorite thought: "In academia, our currency is ideas"]
an impromptu mini-girls night out w/ “the wives”
“family dinner”
attempted post-post question: what do you do on vacation when you’re unable to go on vacation?
I’ve been preparing for several intense meetings within the past couple of weeks, and in the preparation, I came across these questions…they were quite self-reflective. I noticed that most of the questions were based on behavioral or social reactions, but this one stood out among the others. Try it on for size: If you have the choice of giving a transplant to a successful elderly member of the community or a 20-year old drug addict, how would you choose?
That is fantastic question, which addresses both a strong ethical dilemma as well as involve acute critical thinking skills. Either way, the respondent must answer rationally and cognitively on an emotionally charged question. Wow! I’m sure glad I wasn’t in the hot seat!
Here were some of the other not-so-scary questions I encountered:
Who is your hero and why?
What were your favorite and least favorite courses in college?
Of all the people, dead or alive, who would you most like to have dinner with and why?
What are you passionate about?
How can you tell if someone is compassionate?
Describe yourself in three words.
What makes you laugh? Why?
Tell me about a significant event in your life and how it shaped you?
Which of your qualities would you want to pass down to your children?
What three material objects are most important to you?
In your experience, what have you done that you consider truly creative?
Do you consider yourself to be thoughtful, analytical or do you usually make up your mind fast? Give an example. (Watch time taken to respond)
What sort of leader do your people feel you are? Are you satisfied?
Would you prefer to provide less effective treatment to more people or more effective medicine to fewer patients?
Give me a specific example of a time when you had to conform to a policy with which you did not agree.
Tell me about a difficult decision you’ve made in the last year.
Give me an example of a time when you used your fact-finding skills to solve a problem.
Why I found it profitable to share this…I don’t know. But hey, you asked and I provided, right?!? So, next time you’re going to an interview, keep some of these questions in your back pocket. You’ll shock the socks off of the interviewer, but be ready for the questions to bounce back to you after you’ve stumped ‘em in round three!
Do to my California siesta we had no Mondays with Marjie last week. We’re making up for it today with this amazing link Marjie sent me to an Anderson Cooper article featuring a nutritional breakthrough and the research of Doctors without Borders relief group.
It’s cheap, easy to make, and even easier to use. What is this miraculous cure? As CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports, it’s a ready-to-eat, vitamin-enriched concoction called “Plumpynut,” an unusual name for a food that may just be the most important advance ever to cure and prevent malnutrition.
This inexpensive, peanut butter flavored, non-refrigerated miracle paste seems to be the answer to one of the world’s largest problems of malnutrition.
My heart beats for solving global poverty and hunger, so reading about this wonder plumpynut-potion makes me want to donate every tub of Jiff in my cupboard to Doctors without Borders. [I wonder if they can do anything with my extra navy beans?]
Here’s the UNICEF video of the wonder paste, aka “plumpynut”
So, I’m not going to lie, for it wouldn’t fool a soul…I’m not a morning person. In fact, I typically converse by responding in a single grunt until 10 am. However, I recently figured out one of Mark’s skillful maneuvers to get me moving in the morning. I became acutely aware of this last night when all this man had to say in response to my aversion to an early morning mission was, “We’ll stop by starbucks on the way”, and I gutlessly gave into this caffeinated compromise.
Furthermore, I realized this isn’t the first time he’s used this ploy…he uses this venti-sized strategy at least once a week. oh dear. I truly have issues.
I’m not blogging on our vacation. No, I’m not. I’m only temporarily logged onto this little thing called wordpress while Mark’s meeting w/ the bride and groom re. final wedding details, that’s all…
layover leisure
please have our luggage, please have our luggage, please...
yeah!!!!
yeah again!
please don't forget to pick up the stegalls...
they found us!!!
in honor of our cali friends...it's a staple, you know
this was Mark's first in n out experience...
now, this is just to make you jealous. I admit it.
Well, in honor of kristiapplesauce’s recent post regarding her movie-going experience and b/c ninja training is on my list of Top 5 Reasons Why I Blog, I’ve decided to share one of my said ninja tricks. You need no nunchakus or swords, just a movie ticket and possibly a really cool eye patch.
Have you ever been sitting in a theater, watching a movie, minding your own business, when all of a sudden, you are unable to hold the 40 oz of soda in your 10 oz bladder? You then proceed to the restroom and find that once you return to aforementioned theater, you can’t see a thing, you climb over laps, get an extra handful of popcorn and goose a granny all before your eyes adjust to the darkness?
Well, have no fear, Cathi is here! Here’s the trick…just before you leave the darkness of the theater, close or cover one eye [yeah, like a pirate], do your “business” with that one eye covered the entire time [takes some practice, I know], and don’t open your one closed eye until you re-enter the dark theater – then open your previously closed eye and voila! You can see perfectly!
[This trick may have also been known to be used by ninjas for midnight potty breaks and may help alleviate the problem of late night stubbed toes…]
