Tagged by Tiptoe wanting to know quirks about me.
Here are the rules:
1.Link to the person who tagged you
2.Mention the rules on your blog
3.Tell 6 unspectacular quirks about you
4.Tag 6 following bloggers by linking to them
5.Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they've been tagged.
1) I am inordinately afraid of fire. Actually, it is not exactly fire that scares me, it is more the prospect of being burned, if that makes sense. There was an incident when I was about eight, I picked up a metal bar that had just come off of a bonfire, and I had 2nd and 3rd degree burns on my hands, the most excruciating thing I have ever dealt with, physically, at least. Ever since then I have been way overly cautious about touching anything remotely hot, and I'm extremely paranoid about my place catching fire when I'm not there. The duplex I live in right now has gas appliances, it seriously took me about a year to not be completely freaked out by having the constant open flames (pilot lights) all over the place.
2) Although I have worked with a lot of animals that people tend to be afraid of, the only ones that really scare me are farm birds, specifically roosters and water fowl. Chalk it up to traumatic childhood experience: when I was a kid I used to visit my uncle's ranch, and he had some terrible roosters that loved to attack me. He wanted to punish them but could never catch them, so he decided to set me out as bait so he could jump out and get them. Thus, some of my earliest childhood memories are of cowering down watching this huge demon bird charging at me. I don't be liking roosters. Also, I was attacked by a male swan one time, he bit my thumb so hard that it broke and he bruised me pretty badly with his wings, I looked like a child abuse case. I guess that taught me an important life lesson: sometimes very pretty things can have very bad attitudes.
3) I have always loved writing fiction as well as non-fiction, and I currently have the first 60,000 words of a novel sitting on my hard drive, waiting for my big break.
4) I LOVE cribbage. It is sad that so few people are familiar with the game, because it's a lot of fun. My family has cribbage tournaments every Christmas, and I am undefeated for seven years running.
5) My favorite movie of all time is Grease, I have seen it roughly 218 times. Yes, I am nerdy enough to have calculated and kept track. Young John Travolta? Swoon.
6) I am living proof of the fact that a single teacher can drastically change the course of a person's life. I have always loved nature, and as a kid I was constantly doing "experiments" and smuggling critters into the house. But my parents wanted me to go to law school, so until I was sixteen I was convinced I was going to go to Harvard Law and eventually end up on the Supreme Court. I inhaled John Grisham novels, watched Law & Order religiously, and in the evenings while I did my homework I listened to C-Span with my mom (who started law school twice but could never finish because of my dad's career). Then I took an AP Biology class, and I was absolutely hooked. In the course of one semester I discovered this insatiable thirst for knowledge about the world that shows no signs of abating, my current field of study inspires me with awe every single day. I have most definitely found my passion, now I can't even fathom what life would be like if I had gone in the direction I'd originally planned.
Now I am supposed to pick six more people . . . I am always ultra-shy about tagging, because I am afraid that a) they will hate me for picking them or b) I will name someone that doesn't read my blog as often as I might think, which will become painfully obvious to everyone when I tag them and they remain oblivious, making me feel pathetically obscure and overly ambitious in claiming web buddies. Maybe this counts as a 7th quirk, or maybe it just a fact of the reality of my insignificance in the blogosphere. ANYWAY, if you haven't been tagged by this yet, consider yourself indirectly tagged, go ahead an cite me as your source, or leave a comment on here and I can tag you post hoc. ;)
2 comments:
Glad you joined in and gave us some quirks about you. The fire and bird thing would definitely leave some lasting memories for me as well. I knew knew you were interested in law at one point.
As for tagging, I get weird about it too, but I figure if people want to do it, they will and if they don't, they don't. No harm either way.
yeah, have no idea what cribbage is!
i'm realllly afraid of birds too (all kinds) except ducks, which i consider to be my totem. i got attacked by ducks once when i was a kid...they kept biting my socked feet, thinking they were bread! trauma trauma trauma!
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