09/30 Eight Random Facts about Me

Been trying to do some research for blog entry ideas and found this: Eight Random Facts about Me. Basically put down eight random things about yourself and then pass it along to others. I don't know any other bloggers so I am not sure whom I would send this to, but here it goes for me.

• I am a terrible insomniac. Have been since childhood. I used to wait for my parents to go to sleep and then went out in the kitchen (where they couldn't see the light) and read till 4-5 in the morning. Tried the Steve Pavlina thing, tried sleeping pills, tried getting up at 6, etc. Only does a little good for a little while.


• I recently joined a university long-term weight loss study and lost about 30 pounds. I'll be writing some posts about that...later.


• Every serious romantic partner I've ever had was born in August to parents who worked in IT. Everyone. Yes, multiple.


• I had some brief Internet notoriety after writing a fictional case study of the zombie apocalypse (and I do mean brief and limited). However, it was enough to prompt a fanzine editor to look me up for a rewrite, which I did but never got published. i'll put it up somewhere and add a link, should have it somewhere.


• I have zero talent for Scrabble. I love to read and write, I love obscure words and I'm usually pretty good at word games but I cannot play Scrabble to save my life. I am terrible at it.


• I'm terribly shy. I have a couple of close friends that I've known since high school but I have never mastered the arm's length - neighborhood group - happy hour buddy thing that's so crucial to networking. I can't even do it on the internet and that's supposed to be the great micro-interest bazaar, for crying out loud.


• When I was younger (child of 9), I had a debilitating disease that kept me in the hospital and then bedridden at home for the better part of a year. The next year my parents split up and I moved to another state for a year. That didn't work out, so I came back, but in the interim all of my friends had changed from 9 year olds to 12 year olds and I really didn't fit in anywhere. So I read a lot and I have never really been close to more than 1-2 people at a time. Not an excuse, just a reason.


• Once at a work happy hour, someone asked everyone one of those questionnaires where you name a set of images that come into your head. At one point they had you picture an animal - I pictured a bear, happy enough to live in the woods eating fish and not really looking for trouble, really pretty shy unless you threatened its family or pushed it the wrong direction on the wrong day, in which case it would tear you apart. Turns out that question was how you see yourself. I tend to agree.

5 down, 25 to go.