July 26, 2007
Eight Things Meme
This meme comes from Viv. In the spirit of being a rebel, I'm not going to follow all the rules. (I'm holding firm on my morals here, so sue me.)Here are my eight facts/habits. In case you didn't guess I'm choosing to break rules 4 and 5. Please see 6 below for an explanation.
- We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
- Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
- At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
- Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
As I said, I'm not planning on tagging anyone. If you would like to fill out this meme just leave me a comment to let me know and grab the rules off the top of this post. :)
- If it was not for modern medicine I would be a vegetable. When my mother was giving birth to me the umbilical cord got wrapped around my neck and was strangling me. I was delivered by emergency C-section, which saved me from the exciting possibility of brain suffocation.
- As a child I believed my parents' cat was smarter than me. She was one year older than me and damn smart. She taught herself to hunt by watching another cat and then figured out that she understood plate glass windows, but birds did not. She died of kidney failure when I was 12.
- I got my first computer when I was in high school. I was extremely proud of having it all to myself. It was also my first CD player. The first 14 CDs I ever bought (to play in my new computer) were all Japanese imports related to anime series. I loved music, but I was more than a little out of touch with the mainstream.
- I have been practicing bio-feedback since I was in middle school. I was originally referred to a therapist to be trained in bio-feedback exercises because of my migraines. The training helped me to understand and control my body and my reactions to stress far better than I ever had before. Back in those days I carried around a lot more social anxiety than I do now.
- Because I'm not a very religious person, I often make up my own "traditions" and "superstitions" to follow. For example, folks who have visited my apartment may have noticed that I have a string of bells hanging next to the inside of the outer door. I ring those bells when I enter or leave the house because their sound keeps out "bad things" that might be lurking outside. I don't actually believe in evil spirits or curses or intangible but malignant forces like that. This is just a tradition that I created because I could and I like the sound of bells. It allays some of my anxiety about the outside world and helps me see my home as a protected safe haven.
- I try to never pass on memes or email chain-letters with an overt demand that others propagate them. I started doing this when I was in high school and email chain-letters started getting annoying/bad. I like memes, but I don't like forcing others to do things they would rather not. I'm perfectly happy to be tagged, just don't expect me to send things on to others with any demands upon them to do them or pass them on further. I also tend to break whatever meme rules I find inconvenient. I don't have a good excuse for that. I'm just a touch stubborn about the arbitrary rules I allow in my life.
- I desperately want to publish a book. I can't figure out why or what it should be on. I just really want it too happen.
- I'm a collector. I find it difficult to resist the urge to complete a collection once I have a part of it. This has lead me to own some books that I may never read and various other things that I may never use. I am trying to work on this and hope that some day I can bring myself to get rid of many of the things that I don't really want/need/use. For now I'm just trying really hard not to collect things that I don't want to own for the right reasons.
On a completely unrelated note I would like to mention that reading two thirds of the last Potter book in one day is an extremely good distraction from a toothache. Also, I harbor great resentment against my dentist for not being willing to see me today.
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