Mary Chandler:  

Well, if you really must know........ I did nothing I expected I would! I have done many, many things and been many, many places. I backpacked in Australia for a few months, I was a ski bum in Tahoe for a few years. I've traveled across the US, parts of Canada, tended bar in a Birkenhead docks public house (across from Liverpool), gone boom-netting off Great Keppel Island, bartered for bowls in Mexico, and eaten haggis in Scotland. I've waited tables, designed flowers, created skin care products in the lab of a manufacturing corporation. I'm a certified Veterinary Office Manager. I wrote my own column in a national magazine, played competitive racquetball, taught downhill skiing, cooking, and photography. I worked for 10 years at UCDavis and have probably forgotten half of everything else I've d...Expand for more