MEME: It is Bowen’s fault.
7 Things that have nothing to do with making machines run (my job.)
1. I went to 6 different high schools over a six year time span and yet graduated from high school after only three years.
2. I was expelled from two different schools for playing Dungeons & Dragons. I have never played Dungeons & Dragons. (I have DMed a few times.)
3. I consider myself to have grown up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania even though it was only four years of my life. For some reason, 6 through 10 were extremely formative years for me. I have a lot of fond memories from then, even though it must have been a nightmare on my folks. I remember one year where we lost power and had to hike out to the road in order to get a ride and a place to stay until the electric company put up new lines. I remember digging tunnels underneath the snow. That was awesome for me as a kid, but must have been a PITA for the grownups.
4. I have social … issues. I find it hard to initiate interactions with people. I’m okay once things have started, for the most part, but suffer from varying amounts of anxiety in getting there. I’m most comfortable being the third wheel, sitting in the back and offering up choice comments rarely. I have made myself physically sick more than once in merely trying to start a phone call.
5. I have a daughter. She’s 12. I haven’t spoken to her in years. For a pathetic excuse as to why that is, see number 4. I would have no sympathy for someone else making that excuse and I should not tolerate it from myself.
6. I was raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist. This means that I was brought up in a household with no meat. No caffeine, no alcohol, no nicotine, and limited amounts of sugar and salt. This particular denomination takes health very seriously, literally treating the body as a temple of god. I don’t follow this faith anymore, but I see a lot of good things in the oddly withdrawn mindset that they espouse. It doesn’t make things easy with the family though, since as a non-believer I am automatically a satanist. Would you like to see my horns?
7. I think I can fly. Or at least, that is what it must look like to everyone else. I find climbing on top of things gives a different and better perspective to see things from. It also feels really neat. One of these days I am going to climb on top of something and not be able to get down again. That will be embarrassing.
The Rules of the Meme 1. Link your original tagger (mine was Amy Bowen) and list these rules in your post. 2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post. 3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs. 4. Let them know they’ve been tagged. I tag the following people:
Seven seems a bit excessive to me. (Cross posted to LiveJournal.)
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