17th May 2007

Seven things

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D, over at No More Work Than One (hah!), tagged me with the “Seven little known facts” meme.

So:

  1. When I was in my early teens, I wanted to join the Air Force Thunderbirds. Much to my dismay, I learned when I was about 16 that women couldn’t pilot fighter jets. This made me fume. Then, much later, I learned that people who had lousy eyesight couldn’t pilot fighter jets. This didn’t make me fume, just made me sad. Nowadays, they allow folks who have had LASIK in…
  2. I’m a wuss. I’m quite able to start a grumpy email or internet board exchange, but am afraid to open the responses. I have to consciously tell myself not to be a wuss and to open the damned thing, already! to actually get the response open.
  3. Another wussy aspect: I have phone phobia. This was a real drawback when I worked on a business magazine and had to interview people for stories. It also didn’t help when I was doing phone research for my mom’s company. Picking up the phone to make a cold call literally leaves my stomach in knots. I don’t have the same problem answering the phone; I figure anyone who has dialed actually wants to be disturbed by me…
  4. I sucked my thumb into my teens.
  5. I still bite my fingernails.
  6. I am a total failure at putting makeup on. I now know that this extends to putting makeup on my dotter. Luckily, raccoon eyes are de rigeur when performing on stage.
  7. There was a period in my early thirties when my biggest dream was to become a squatter on forest service land and build my own log cabin with my own hands and live off the land, hiking 30 miles in and out to get my groceries once a month.

I’m supposed to tag seven other people. As D noted, if the meme were done properly, the entire blogosphere would have been tagged many times over by now. So, rather than specifically tagging people, if you feel like it, write up seven interesting things about yourself on your blog & let me know, or do it in the comments. In other words–”Tag! You’re It!”

(This is called “laziness”.)

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There are currently 4 responses to “Seven things”

  1. 1 On May 17th, 2007, atomic mama said:

    Ugh, I’ve got the phone phobia, too, except mine works both ways. And yes, it is SO inconvenient when you need to call a client or take a call from a client, but I’ve never really gotten over it. Also, I like privacy when I make most calls - I hate having an audience, regardless of whether they’re private or work calls. I simply HATE the phone.

    And No. 7 - I’ve had the same desires, except my plan was to build an earth lodge or pithouse…

  2. 2 On May 17th, 2007, Mrs Figby said:

    Heh. Amen on the phone thing. HATE the phone.

    Also, I had no idea so many of us were long-time thumb suckers! I seriously thought I was the only one.

    And I had the living-off-the-land dream, too, except we were going to build our own farmhouse from scavenged and recycled materials and have a huge organic garden to feed ourselves.

  3. 3 On May 17th, 2007, D said:

    Ah, the phone thing. Yeah. I always claim it’s because English isn’t my native language. But I guess that’s an excuse, eh?

    Never had the dream to live on the land, though. I hate gardening. I have two left hands. And there wouldn’t be internet there, right? Not for me.

  4. 4 On May 20th, 2007, omegamom said:

    Goodness! What a bunch of phonephobics we have here!

    D–Yeah, these days having no internet would be a problem. This daydream was well before the internet days, though. All I wanted was lots of books!

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