Eight random things 

 Tagged by Doc Thelma.  Thanks, old pal.  I think.  Here we go:

1. On my desk stands a 10-inch pink plastic Jesus with a magic 8-ball window in its base.  When I just asked it whether I should mention it in this meme, it dismissively replied "Have a nice afterlife."

2. Because of my curly perm in high school, one boyfriend affectionately called me "Poodle."

3. I do not believe in luck.

4. My blood type is 0-negative, the kind that TV doctors are always shouting for when a trauma patient gets wheeled in.

5. I tend to collect soda bottle caps that I could redeem for "buy one 20 oz., get one free," but I can't remember ever using one to get a free soda.  (Not surprising when you think about how seldom you're in a situation to want two bottles of soda at once.)

6. The two aliases I used with my high school friends were Cedric and T'Challa.  I know the latter is because the black panther was the animal I thought was the coolest, and given the Celtic bent of Doc Thelma's and my mutual friend M., I imagine the former sprang originally from her.

7. Because of a random incident in adolescence, I will forever associate menstruation with turtles.

8. In graduate school, I named my boa constrictor "Cuda" after a character in George Romero's Martin.

Tagged: Justin, Maureen, Kerry, Stephanie, Keith, Kelly, Michael, Victor. Deliberately-not-tagged-because-I-always-tag-them: Jenn, Amanda, Stevie, Missy, Secret Knitter, Paul, Adam.  But hey, if you're stuck for a blog entry, feel free to pretend that my near-miss tag actually got a piece of the jersey.

Posted: Friday - June 22, 2007 at 09:38 AM         |