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albionidaho) wrote2006-11-14 03:01 pm
albionidaho) wrote2006-11-14 03:01 pm
twelve weird things
We've been playing "Six Weird Things" over at my Journalscape journal.
I was tagged twice, so instead of six I have twelve.
The ever-fabulous Mary has tagged me to tell you all six weird things about myself.
I believe I've done this before, but there are so many odd things to share that I figure I might as well do it again.
Hopefully I won't repeat myself.
The rules are:
Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
My six weird, but fairly mundane, things:
1) I spent a good portion of my teenage years having a mad crush on Sherlock Holmes. Please, don't laugh. It was a sweet, innocent, and tender love, and it would make Sherlock and I cry.
2) Occasionally I have been known to talk to the authors of books, while reading their books. Not the characters, mind you -- no the author. As in, "What the bloody hell are you thinking? You have used the same word about 27 different times this chapter! Have you no thesaurus???" I occasionally consider actually writing such authors and asking what they were thinking, but I usually think better of it and move on with life. Usually.
3) From the ages of about eight until about fifteen, or so, I worked on an intricate time traveling plan. I wasn't sure about how I was going to travel through time, but I had all the other details planned out, e.g. how to let my parents know not to worry about me, what to do for money and living arrangements and clothing, paradoxes (though for a long time I didn't know that a lot of my concerns had said term), etc.
4) I have, and always have had, a very rich inner fantasy life. (Wow... I wonder if some sort of monster lives in the lake across the street...)
5) When I was a teenager, my dentist inadvertently hypnotized me so I could not read and write. This condition lasted for about two weeks. Long story short, it took a shrink in Salt Lake City to put me back together again.
6) When I told Rice about this, he had a very similar story, and it happened to him when he was the same age. His condition, however, did not involve a dentist, nitrous oxide, or a shrink. Still, pretty strange coincidence.
And the other six:
The Creator has tagged me for six more things.
What? The original six weren't weird enough? :)
Here we go again:
1) I am technically a high school drop out. I dropped out so I could start college early, and take really cheap college classes. (They were $25.00 a credit for high school students. You can't beat that. I took a lot of classes, including western civilization from a man who reminded me of a hopped up Watson...) I also graduated three months after the rest of my class, was accepted to college the next day as a transfer student, and started classes the following day. It was a Thursday. (A lot of people didn't understand the academic plan and felt bad for me.)
2) My favorite place to hang out in high school, next to my bedroom, was my grandparent's house. Evidently this was weird; none of my other cousins felt this way. They missed a lot of good times.
3) I tend to attract interesting people. I don't know if this is just because I find most people interesting, or if there's truly something about me, but let's just say I haven't spent a lot of time with your average Idaho housewife. I mean, as a freshman in college, I went out on a date with a guy who thought he was a prophet. Several years later his face was all over the tabloids and his family was appearing on one of those wild talk shows because he'd decided his toddler son was also a prophet, and things had gotten, erm, out of hand. I went out with him as a favor to his sixteen-year-old brother, who was also a freshman, another interesting character.
4) I used to eat watermelon with pepper on it. It wasn't that it tasted great, though it wasn't bad -- my father's extended family just thought it was incredibly odd, so I kept doing it. They thought I was a pretty odd kid anyway, so I figured I might as well just fuel the flame, as it were.
5) I recently saw Blue Velvet for the first time. I laughed more than I was freaked out. How wrong is that?
6) I know few here are going to find this weird, but my house is filled with books. A lot of people find this horribly odd. My MIL used to constantly try to talk me into putting most of them into boxes, into storage. How could I need or use all these books regularly? People come over, see just the ones in the living room and say, "Have you read all these books?" Someday I'm going to do something silly like pull a line from Neil Gaiman and say, "No, no. We don't read them -- they're decorations. We buy them in panels at Pier One."
When doing these things, I have a method for tagging people. I tag people who tend to run in particular blog groups, knowing then that by tagging one person a whole bunch of others will get tagged. So, for example, if I tag Netter, I know people like Reenie and Eric will probably get tagged.
But let's do it differently this time. The next six people to read this post can post their answers, or their journal address, in my comments. Happy weirding.
I was tagged twice, so instead of six I have twelve.
The ever-fabulous Mary has tagged me to tell you all six weird things about myself.
I believe I've done this before, but there are so many odd things to share that I figure I might as well do it again.
Hopefully I won't repeat myself.
The rules are:
Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
My six weird, but fairly mundane, things:
1) I spent a good portion of my teenage years having a mad crush on Sherlock Holmes. Please, don't laugh. It was a sweet, innocent, and tender love, and it would make Sherlock and I cry.
2) Occasionally I have been known to talk to the authors of books, while reading their books. Not the characters, mind you -- no the author. As in, "What the bloody hell are you thinking? You have used the same word about 27 different times this chapter! Have you no thesaurus???" I occasionally consider actually writing such authors and asking what they were thinking, but I usually think better of it and move on with life. Usually.
3) From the ages of about eight until about fifteen, or so, I worked on an intricate time traveling plan. I wasn't sure about how I was going to travel through time, but I had all the other details planned out, e.g. how to let my parents know not to worry about me, what to do for money and living arrangements and clothing, paradoxes (though for a long time I didn't know that a lot of my concerns had said term), etc.
4) I have, and always have had, a very rich inner fantasy life. (Wow... I wonder if some sort of monster lives in the lake across the street...)
5) When I was a teenager, my dentist inadvertently hypnotized me so I could not read and write. This condition lasted for about two weeks. Long story short, it took a shrink in Salt Lake City to put me back together again.
6) When I told Rice about this, he had a very similar story, and it happened to him when he was the same age. His condition, however, did not involve a dentist, nitrous oxide, or a shrink. Still, pretty strange coincidence.
And the other six:
The Creator has tagged me for six more things.
What? The original six weren't weird enough? :)
Here we go again:
1) I am technically a high school drop out. I dropped out so I could start college early, and take really cheap college classes. (They were $25.00 a credit for high school students. You can't beat that. I took a lot of classes, including western civilization from a man who reminded me of a hopped up Watson...) I also graduated three months after the rest of my class, was accepted to college the next day as a transfer student, and started classes the following day. It was a Thursday. (A lot of people didn't understand the academic plan and felt bad for me.)
2) My favorite place to hang out in high school, next to my bedroom, was my grandparent's house. Evidently this was weird; none of my other cousins felt this way. They missed a lot of good times.
3) I tend to attract interesting people. I don't know if this is just because I find most people interesting, or if there's truly something about me, but let's just say I haven't spent a lot of time with your average Idaho housewife. I mean, as a freshman in college, I went out on a date with a guy who thought he was a prophet. Several years later his face was all over the tabloids and his family was appearing on one of those wild talk shows because he'd decided his toddler son was also a prophet, and things had gotten, erm, out of hand. I went out with him as a favor to his sixteen-year-old brother, who was also a freshman, another interesting character.
4) I used to eat watermelon with pepper on it. It wasn't that it tasted great, though it wasn't bad -- my father's extended family just thought it was incredibly odd, so I kept doing it. They thought I was a pretty odd kid anyway, so I figured I might as well just fuel the flame, as it were.
5) I recently saw Blue Velvet for the first time. I laughed more than I was freaked out. How wrong is that?
6) I know few here are going to find this weird, but my house is filled with books. A lot of people find this horribly odd. My MIL used to constantly try to talk me into putting most of them into boxes, into storage. How could I need or use all these books regularly? People come over, see just the ones in the living room and say, "Have you read all these books?" Someday I'm going to do something silly like pull a line from Neil Gaiman and say, "No, no. We don't read them -- they're decorations. We buy them in panels at Pier One."
When doing these things, I have a method for tagging people. I tag people who tend to run in particular blog groups, knowing then that by tagging one person a whole bunch of others will get tagged. So, for example, if I tag Netter, I know people like Reenie and Eric will probably get tagged.
But let's do it differently this time. The next six people to read this post can post their answers, or their journal address, in my comments. Happy weirding.
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