First, everyone stop by my friend Kim’s blog and wish her a happy birthday. We went to college together where we discovered that we are, in fact, the same person born two years apart. Freaky.
Now, since I have nothing to talk about that doesn’t involve dumb students (and you may yet get a dumb students post), I’m going to do the seven (or eight) random things meme that’s been floating around. So, seven (or eight) random things about me:
1.) If I am travelling or going to a show or a concert, or anything that involves me being at a certain place by a certain time, I am a nervous wreck in the hours leading up to it. I make lists of things that I need to bring, I make lists for the people who are watching my animals, I leave extra early to get to the place I need to be on time, and I keep checking the clock to make sure I am there. I drive people who are with me in these situations nuts.
2.) Interestingly enough, if it is something I do more than once, like going to work or attending a weekly gathering? It becomes less important to me to get there on time.
3.) When I was little, I found a piece of carbon paper in my mom’s desk. I was fascinated that it rubbed off on things and made them blue. I looked at the wallpaper in my mom’s bedroom, decided that it could use some blue, and rubbed the carbon paper on the wallpaper. Did I mention it was expensive wallpaper? It was. At varying points I also sliced my mother’s box spring open with a razor blade and set the carpet in her bedroom on fire with a match by accident. I don’t think she knew about the fire until this very moment. Hi, mom! And no, I was not doing this to be destructive. I was just interested in how things worked. Unintentional destrictiveness.
4.) I’ve noticed that many of my friends were born around the same times of year. For instance, my brother and my friend Colleen’s birthday was May 18, Kim’s is today, and my friend Tony’s birthday is the 27th. I also have a slew of Cancers in my circle of friends and family: my mom, Lori, Rick, Aimee, my dad, and one of my aunts are all Cancers. Not sure why I attract them, but I do. Weird, right?
5.) My brain seems wired for creative pursuits, languages, and patterns rather than logic. I’ve always struggled with math and to a lesser extent science (the ones that involved math), but excelled in English, history, languages, and arts. I have taught myself the fundamentals of HTML, knitting, spinning, and any number of historical facts out of books, but if you sat me down with a math text and told me to learn, I’d be screwed.
6.) I have loved writing since I was a kid. Somewhere in my apartment I have a notebook that my mom bought me when I was about 8 to write my stories down in. My favorite of those stories? One that involved giant killer bugs on the floor of the ocean. I never finished that story. Actually, I still have a problem finishing stories. Apparently I am a process writer and always have been.
7.) When I was in college, I played defense on my sorority’s intramural floor hockey team, and I was damn good at it. We were champions four semesters running. The prize was an Allegheny College beer stein. I still have two of the four somewhere at my house.
8.) I have felt a deep connection to Freddie Mercury since he died during my freshman year of high school. I know many fans of many musicians say this, and it’s probably just the result of listening to so much of his music throughout my life, but I honestly think that Freddie and I would have gotten along famously if we had ever met. We have bitchiness, creativity, fierce loyalty to friends, and a hidden shy side in common. And if all else failed, I would have told him about how I got in trouble with the nuns in kindegarten because I came into school singing “Another One Bites The Dust.” I think Freddie would have gotten a big kick out of that.
Not tagging anyone, but if you want to do this, go ahead.
