So there's a thing circulating on Facebook where you post 25 random bits of information about yourself in a note and then tag 25 people so that they hear that you've written this note, and then when they get tagged they're supposed to write their own 25 random things and tag other people.
So here we go.
1. I recently realized that I start a lot of sentences with, "So..."
2. If I was 18 and just finishing high school again, I would do my undergraduate degree in history instead of physics. I really enjoyed the time I spent studying physics, and I certainly don't feel it was a waste, but the courses I remember most about are the two history courses I took mainly because they fit nicely into my timetable. I would particularly focus on the twentieth century. I probably wouldn't be a career historian though.
3. I am a labourer, not a savant.
4. I hate being asked about my most embarrassing moment, not because I don't wish to share it but because I can never remember it when I'm on the spot.
5. I love summer. A lot. I was a lake kid, and Big Whiteshell Lake is the site of most of my favourite memories from when I was a kid.
6. I am not sure of my place in the universe, but I am sure it is pretty much the same as everyone else's.
7. I like fire. I can poke at a campfire for an hour easy. It's probably my favourite part of camping.
8. I don't have a good track record for getting along with administration in the places I've worked. I'm willing to accept only a small amount of blame for this.
9. I frequently wonder just what is going through my dog's head. One of my favourite things to watch is when he's lying on the floor and then suddenly jumps up and chases his tail around. Then he pauses to make the tail think he's forgotten about it, and suddenly starts chasing it in the other direction. Tres funny.
10. I had three imaginary friends when I was little: Luke, Beeko and Tito.
11. I am married to my best friend.
12. I speak a bit of French, and wish I spoke more. I was surprised that I remembered enough French to get by on in Paris.
13. I have absolutely no musical skill whatsoever. I kinda want to learn to play the harmonica.
14. I have a six-month-old daughter who is starting to laugh at her Daddy a lot, which is pretty much the nicest thing I've ever seen.
15. I like football a lot, but I don't really understand it. The line of scrimmage looks like one big riot to me, but I know it's actually well-choreographed chaos. I would like to be able to understand what's going on in there better.
16. I have never had a comfortable pair of skates or ski boots. I played ringette and hockey for many years with incredibly painful feet because I just figured that was the way it was supposed to be. Every so often I would hold my tongue just right as I was tying them and they would only be moderately uncomfortable rather than excruciating, and on those days I wanted to keep playing for hours.
17. I have flat feet, as to #16.
18. I am very good at remembering phone numbers.
19. I have a respectable store of useless knowledge, which I'm sure will come in handy when I'm on Jeopardy.
20. In grade three, my teacher taught us the American Sign Language alphabet. I don't know why. I remember it to this day, which has been useful exactly one time in my thirty years. Unfortunately I don't think it'll come up on Jeopardy.
21. I would like to be a writer. I don't know what I would write about, which is why I have a blog: I can write as much or as little as I want, and about anything I want. And pretty much nobody reads it but me.
22. I am close to my family and really, really like it when we are all together.
23. I have been on some awesome road trips.
24. I turn into a pumpkin at midnight. Actually, I turn into a pumpkin earlier and earlier these days.
25. I have a major fascination with Western Europe, I think because of the fact that you can go into a place that is eight hundred years old, and it's so well-maintained that it seems like it's just built to look like it's eight hundred years old. And you have to imagine all the people who lived or worked or visited there over the eight hundred years.
2 comments:
Here's a comment on #21. Maybe it's a correction. Maybe both. Audrey, my sister, Andy's aunt, said she reads your blog. She says you're a wonderful writer and thinks you ought to keep it up. I think so, too.
Thanks!
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