LUCKY OL ME

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LUCKY OL ME

• LIBR 500 FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• January 2005
• Patricia Montpellier
• p.mont_at_telus.net

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that perennial questionWhat do you want to be
when you grow up?

• When I was a kid, my best friend, Jane, was
  certain that she would become a nurse,
• and she did.

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As for me, I thought I wanted to be

• a diplomat
• an architect

• or a singer in a rock band

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Started out with things stacked in my
favour

• My dad was a pretty famous scientist
• Dr. D. Harold Copp
• -He was also a wonderful man.-

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Mom was beautiful, kind and practically perfect

• Here are the three daughters,
• Mary
• Carolyn and
• me (can you tell Im the baby?)

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When I was five, my father was the scientific
secretary for the United Nations Atoms for Peace
Conference.

• Dad, Mom and I lived in New York and later
  Geneva. I was treated like a little princess by
  the conference delegates and literally had the
  time of my life!

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In 1950 my dad came here from California to help
found UBCs Medical School.

• Our home sweet home
• was a West Coast post-
• and-beam structure
• designed by Ron Thom.
• Overlooking Spanish
• Banks, it was absolutely
• the coolest place to grow
• up!

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JOBS

• Donut Diner
• 95c./hour
• not for me
• Purple Gherkin
• funky fashions
• paid the rent
• Library Research
• mind expanding
• perfect job

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Married with Children
Evan 1984 Religious Studies at McGill
Monica - 1987 Grade 12 Point Grey High
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Down the garden path
became a master gardener (ask me) had
landscape design business obsessed with gardens
and gardening
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RENOVATIONS
Seems like Ive been renovating forever
Actually its just been two years
My little house
not quite there yet
The Kitchen Addition
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Ive been a world traveller know I have a few
more adventures to go
But for now I just wanna be a librarian
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THE END