frostymama

1. I am an ex-uber fundy that grew up in a family that gave new meaning to the word "fundy"

2. I was blinded (for one day) from a blow to the head when I was 8.

3. I was homeschooled for 5 years.

4. I have been pregnant or lactating for the last 4 years 7 months.

5. I have a gait disorder.

6. I love working on genealogy and family history stuff. I have more in common with my grandmother's childhood than my peers.

7. I named my youngest kid after my maternal grandfather who was somewhat agnostic and an obscure rockabilly singer.

8. I dropped out of college after 3 semesters because I suck at dealing with people.

9. I can't drive.

10.I used to work in customer service and back-up receptionist. I hate talking on the phone.

j-ogenes

Hey everyone,
I guess this is as good a way as any to introduce myself. I'm very glad to be in this environment.
I'm a fiction writer from Michigan, age 29. Those don't count in my ten. Here goes:
1. the first girl I kissed later spent time in a minimum security prison. Minimum!
2. I own more than 25 full-length R.E.M. concerts on CD.
3. I know what the subjunctive case is and how to use it.
4. I've studied fiction with Charles Baxter, Geoffrey Wolff, Ann Patchett and Robert Olmstead.
5. When I was young and visiting my mom at work, a woman said to me "hey, shorty," to which I replied, "hey, fatso."
6. I'm seldom very awake before noon.
7. I take absent-mindedness to new levels
8. I don't like Shakespeare. Not much anyway.
9. My step-father has a tattoo of the now-defunct USFL football team the Michigan Panthers on his arm.
10. I like to marinate my food.
Thanks for reading!

j-ogenes

It really didn't happen this year? Glad I didn't buy a new camcorder for it. Yeah, you can buy and rent tapes of the event at video stores. I was a student at U-M but didn't run...one needs to be innebriated and drinking and running seems for me about as likely as lifting a townhouse and carrying it to the next block.

HeatherD

Wow, this is a very long, very old thread. Okay, here are 10 facts about me:

1. I am a human.
2. My thumb is the same length as my nose.
3. I am ambidextrous, although I have become right-dominate.
4. My brain is 80% water.
5. My ears are still growing.
6. I spend more than 1/3 of my life sleeping.
7. I was born without kneecaps.
8. I can curl my tongue into a tube.
9. I have 206 bones, one of which is bent from a fracture.
10. My left lung is smaller than my right lung.

Kosmo

I find this to be the most interesting, particularly since you were born without kneecaps. Or, are you counting the fractured bone as 2 bones?

Hastur

1. I believe in landscaping by benign neglect.

2. I'm a huge New Orleans Saints fan.

3. (Following from #2) I have a soft spot for the underdog.

4. I have a soft spot for Underdog. And Polly Purebred, too.

5. I think that if there were a God, Kent Hovind would morph into his true form; a cockroach.

6. I fish as often as I can.

7. I was once a semipro bowler.

8. I can pick up new video games amazingly quickly, but I never seem to totally master them.

9. I think Spider Robinson should be President.

10. I've almost killed myself in a really stupid way at least three times.

brighid

1. I am told I appear much taller then I actually am (even without heels), and even people who have known me for a long time forget that I am �short.�

2. For 2 years I lived in what can only be described as nothing more then a tin can where I was nearly asphyxiated by a leak in my oven, almost electrocuted by some exposed electrical something or the other, and there was a threshold in the hallway where the temperature was so markedly different it felt like one way walking into a wall of cold � it was a trailer in a not so nice neighborhood.

3. I attended a predominantly black college for my paralegal studies.

4. I am the mother of a 9 year old, biracial son who hopes to someday be a famous actor and chef.

5. A friend and I once safety pinned a guy to his bed (from the nape of his neck, to the very tips of his toes and all the way his inner thighs) after passing out at 1:00 in the afternoon. At 10 pm that night you could hear him scream from the room below for help because he REALLY had to pee! It was so damned funny � He blamed my friend�s roommate because we appeared to be too innocent (that was the 1st and last time I was ever referred to as �innocent� at least without riotous laughter proceeding such a claim.)

6. I love pre-Raphaelite art.

7. Every year a group of women and I attend a local Renaissance Fair dressed in assorted peasant/witchy/pagan clothing. This year I have been challenged by a friend to wear an outfit made almost entirely of chain-maille.

8. I have very blue eyes and they are my most attractive feature.

9. I would love to adopt several different children from various racial and ethnic backgrounds.

10. My love of the martial arts began around age 6 when I had my first crush on Bruce Lee. I still think he is incredibly beautiful and sexy.

miss djax

here's an assortment of tidbits about me this is an interesting bunch

1. i live to travel, and am going to transylvania in august
2. i almost never use capitals when i type
3. i make a mean ginger chai granita
4. i own almost 200 pair of shoes. stop me before i shop again
5. i'm the only female engineer at work..how lame is that?? why aren't there more she-nerds?
6. my favorite email program of all time is pine
7. i love house music and think naked music is the best house music label there is today. plus its got a great name
8. i survived being kidnapped and car jacked
9. if i had an extra 2 million bucks i would pay the soviets to take a ride on a mig
10. i used to volunteer for a program where we taught iv drug users how to clean their 'works' (needles, etc)

and thats all folks

ebolamonger

THANK YOU! I've finally found someone else who cringes when people say "I wish I was..."

j-ogenes

Excellent! I kind of cringe with guilt though.