The “5 things you don’t know about me” meme
Susan Wu tagged me and I am supposed to come up with 5 things you don’t know about me. The problem is that with all the interviews and whatnot, all sorts of things have already been said. Usually, I can pull out stuff that folks don’t expect, like “I’m fluent in Spanish” or “I have a degree in poetry,” but nowadays, this stuff is stuff all you regular blog readers know.
So this is hard. Um.
- I dropped out of junior high school. Not for very long — like two, three months maybe. I was living in Barbados at the time, and I just stopped going. Eventually, a doctor said I had mild depression and prescribed a bunch of vitamins and sunshine. I went back to school, took the finals and passed them, and got flunked on a couple of classes on general principle. Kinda ruined my high school transcript.
- I have never had a traffic ticket. It’s not because I am an amazing driver, I assure you. In fact, I didn’t learn to drive until late — Kristen had to teach me when we were in college. Damn, I could have used that one as a separate item. Oh well.
- My first job was making sandwiches at Subway. You do not want to know how the tuna is made. I worked for a Louisianan manager who used to bring in homemade gumbo for us to eat on the breaks. He was also really into Marilyn Monroe. Once, he asked me to run the late shift alone, and we got unexpectedly hit with a gigantic crowd — like, line out the door — and I didn’t manage to run the register receipts every hour. He never asked me to run the place again.
- I am fleet of foot. Or used to be, before I had this counterweight in the midsection. In grade school for a little while I held a school record for my grade in hurdles. In high school I tried out for the track team but it conflicted with my school magazine editorship so I dropped it.
- We used to breed rodents, during grad school. We started with hamsters, and had both the regular goldens and the Russians, plus one lonely Chinese hamster — I’ve never seen another one. We then acquired a gerbil, then many gerbils, then were inundated in gerbils. For a while there, you could go into most pet stores in central Alabama and find black gerbils with the distinctive white band around their paws, and know where they had originated.
OK, now I am supposed to tag five people. Susan wanted the meme to infect the gaming world. Hmm. What criteria to use…? I pick Kim Pallister. Scott Jennings. Tobold. Yehuda Berlinger. And… Matt Mihaly.
The fleet of foot bit is making me chuckle. It reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. Tip: Set up a race with a foil who has a poor sense of timing out of the gate. After you win, your fleetness will remain unquestioned forever.
Thanks, Raph. But I already did this meme, yesterday!
Yehuda
>We then acquired a gerbil, then many gerbils, then were inundated in gerbils. For a while there, you could go into most pet stores in central Alabama and find black gerbils with the distinctive white band around their paws, and know where they had originated.
I have an awful feeling that this concept is going to find its way into a game of Raph’s somewhere…in fact, maybe it already did! The self-replicating banded gerbil….
You know an (IMO) better meme would be to play “Two Truths and a Lie”. It’s a great game to play as a mixer or with people you already know. The idea’s very simple: tell two compelling truths about yourself and one lie but don’t tell which is which (if you wish you can let people guess and then tell them the answer).
For example:
* I once had a yard full of drunk German men sing Nazi school songs to me.
* I once was stranded, without water, transportation or any means of long distance communication, in the middle of a game park in Botswana.
* I once had to spend several hours in an Indian police station answering questions.
Out of curiosity, has anyone in the SL sphere been tagged?
might as well join in:
http://cliffski.blogspot.com/
@Michael
“Out of curiosity, has anyone in the SL sphere been tagged?”
Yeah, like um….someone whose name starts with P 🙂
Hehe, seven degrees from everyone. You tagged Lum who tagged Abalieno who tagged me. Defunct site or not, I’m just not that interesting 🙂 Married with two kids making ends meet on one salary. Two aging cars needing a new driveway to park upon, standard career I’m trying different ways of advancing within. Normal stuff.
Happy New Year all!
Actually, I avoided tagging Prokofy because of this post, which I had just read.
Hmmmm, the trackback button gives me a “OK The document has moved here” error message, and nothing else. You’ll have to accept this manual link as trackback instead.
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2006/12/five-things-you-dont-know-about-me.html
Wow, those people are really crossing the line I hope Prokofy is OK.
Ok, I bit:
http://kpallist.blogspot.com/2007/01/five-things.html
Continuing poop. I tried so very hard to make my link *not* appear as a trackback, given that the Kramer thing seems to just print the entire post instead of the excerpt or header. Ack…
Endie (ZPNM)
Endie, the system I have automatically picks ’em up whenever the inbound link is followed. Kramer does in fact excerpt it usually, but sometimes it doesn’t. If it’s too long (which this one isn’t really, you should see some of the giant ones we get sometimes) we edit ’em down manually anyway.