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- My favorite hobby is traveling the world - but my biggest fear is flying.
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| Me, trying to look “professional” at a faculty photo shoot. |
- My second-biggest fear is public speaking… but I’m a college professor (who sometimes teaches public speaking!)
- I have two 5-year-old kids - who AREN’T twins.
- My weirdest work experience was helping to “tan” deer hides using cow brains. (I was actually writing a magazine story about it.)
- I’ve only been fired once, from a job as a bookstore clerk.
- My best educational experience was doing research in India on the Dalit (“untouchable”) struggle for human rights. (See maarpu.org)
- My worst experience, ever, was getting food poisoning while riding my bike from the Missouri River to the Mississippi. (My friend told me the chicken tasted strange…)
- Whenever I visit a new country, I try as many ketchups as I can. (Best: Poland, Worst: China)
- I am an uncommonly bad volleyball player… ask the team that ALMOST won a championship.
- I also suffer from mild “ichthyphobia,” or “fear or fish.” I don’t bother trying to overcome that one!
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