11th
February
2009
25 Things
posted in Memes, Miscellaneous, OmegaMom |So Joanna tagged me with the 25 Things meme. Right now, I am fresh out of ideas for a blog post, and this was handy, so…
- I broke my leg in the Grand Canyon and got a helicopter flight over closed airspace as a result.
- I wanted to write best-selling historical romances as a living when I was in high school.
- I still bite my fingernails.
- I went to four different colleges before I got my degree.
- When studying higher mathematics, I got to the point where I would do proofs in my dreams. Some of those proofs actually turned out to be solutions to homework problems I was stuck on.
- I have lived in Chicago; Prescott, Prescott Valley, and Flagstaff, AZ; Orinda, Lafayette, and San Leandro, CA; Lubbock, TX; and here in Alaska.
- My earliest memory is of flying to visit my grandmother in Florida with my parents. I was very small.
- Before I had LASIK done, my eyesight was something like 20/600 in one eye, and 20/700 in the other.
- When I was a teenager, I wanted to have five children, like my aunt and uncle.
- I like floofy mixed drinks.
- I have a knot on my left arm where I was caught between a wall and some girls’ room lockers that friends and I were pushing over in seventh or eighth grade.
- I can recite The Jabberwock from memory.
- I hate white chocolate.
- Yesterday I learned that the part of the guitar’s neck where you are supposed to press down on the guitar strings is not the metal bump of the fret, but between the metal frets.
- I am supremely lazy.
- I abruptly dumped my very best friend, with no explanation, when I was around 20 or 21, for what I still think were very good reasons.
- I have fallen in love three times.
- I spent three weeks writing (long-hand) in a blaze of creativity while I was in my last bout at college; I was writing so much and so fast that it gave me a case of carpal tunnel syndrome that recurs now and then. It ended up being about ninety pages on the computer. I still have it on a hard-drive that is currently inaccessible.
- I am a wuss and back away from confrontation on a regular basis.
- I have phone-phobia, which was a problem when working as a magazine writer.
- We lived near Cabrini Green when I was growing up. I believe it has since been torn down?
- Our house was set on fire by teenagers walking home from school in the alley behind us.
- I save cards and letters others send to me.
- Sometimes I like to watch golf on TV; it’s soothing.
- I will be fifty on my next birthday. This is bothering me.
Your turn! You’re tagged! Write it up somewhere and post a link in the comments!
