via douglas, it's the 'five things you didn't know about me' meme! here are mine:
001 my co-delegate and i always brought a rubber chicken (crammed into my briefcase) to our high school model UN conferences. we called him earl, and used him frequently in security council speeches; he eventually wore out (his head fell off). his replacement was also called earl.
002 joe and i watched the shining on TV a few nights before we left for our wedding. i was so nervous about the upcoming ceremony (people staring at us!) that i kept fantasizing about how lovely it would be to get stuck at the overlook hotel instead (maybe even if jack nicholson was running around - to me, he was the least scary thing about that movie). the patterns in the carpet looked so warm and comforting.
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004 i cross my eyes when i cut out and discard the "previous day's solution" to the times crossword puzzle, just in case i end up picking up yesterday's paper (wouldn't want to know any of the answers ahead of time).
005 for most of childhood, i was terrified of kraken. since i wasn't on, say, a submarine crew, i didn't worry about running into one - but i had to handle my encyclopedia of mythological beasts really carefully so as not to accidentally see a picture of one. if i did, i'd have tentacly nightmares for weeks.
for the passing-it-on portion of our program, i'm pointing at jen, wabes, sara, tom, and hannah (and anyone, bloggy or otherwise, who wants to play along). drop a link in the comments section if you like, or drop the whole darn thing there. tag!
ok, i'll play.
ReplyDelete1. in fifth grade, i won second place in a contest held by some youth space education association (?) where the winner would get to go to space camp in florida. my entry? a colored pencil drawing of what the aliens on neptune look like along with their daily activities. i recall that they were ice skating and sitting in beach chairs with scarves on.
2. i have a freckle (or rather a group of 3 freckles close together) in the shape of a heart on my right ass cheek.
3. when i was in high school, i played on the girls' water polo team. whenever we would lose an away game, the set-guard and i would pee in our opponent's pool before getting out.
4. i think shark week is the best week of the whole year, and i lose my shit everytime they show a clip of a great white jumping out of the water with a seal in its mouth.
5. my arm span is 6 inches longer than my height. when things fall behind shelves and dressers, i'm the one who gets to retrieve them.
re: tom's #4, i'd have been at sea with pud as well. without context, i'd have guessed that guys don't even have them; no more elizabethan lit for me.
ReplyDeletere: tom's #4, jo's #2: i had to research this today; mercifully, i didn't have to test it.
procedural note: wabes's list is here.
ReplyDeleteprocedural note no. 2: jen's list is her jan. 12th entry.
ReplyDeleteprocedural note no. C: hannah starts here. it got brung!
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