I'm It.
I got tagged by lisbet a couple of days ago.
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Once you are tagged you MUST write an entry about 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next six people to be tagged and list their names.
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1. My earliest memory is of breaking my leg when I was about 2 1/2 years old. A bunch of us kids were jumping off a big metal box-like thing behind the row-homes we all lived in & the girl behind me thought I was taking too long so she pushed me. Broke both bones in the lower part of my right leg & had to have a cast the went over halfway up my thigh. All physical pain is judged by that experience. And apparently I was a holy terror with a cast,my Mom tells me.
2. My 3rd grade math teacher threatened to send me back to first grade because she looked in my workbook & discovered that I never did the exercises. She gave me a weekend to get them all done. I couldn't keep track of which ones the class had or hadn't done so I did the entire book. Then she got pissed that I'd worked so far ahead. "What are you going to do when we work on those pages in class?" I just shrugged but in my head, I thought, "What I always do- stare out the windows at the birds."
3. I had a *huge* interest in astronomy when I was a kid. While other girls wanted to be ballerinas, I wanted to be an astronaut. I used to know all of the constellations- I only remember a couple now. Still, I almost failed the astronomy section of my 3rd grade science class, which was taught by the same woman who taught math. My big project was on Pluto & two new major discoveries had been made aboout it- that it had a moon in an unusual orbit, & that it's own orbit wasn't the same as the other planets in our solar system & that it crossed paths with Uranus. In particular, it'd just passed over the crossing point & now Uranus was further out than Pluto. Despite the fact that I brought in a variety of books & articles on the event, including Astronomy magazine & Odyssey, which was the kid's version, that idiot woman refused to believe that it was true. I think both my parents & Sane Uncle, who was an amateur astronomer with a big telescope of his own, had to come in & have a talk with her. I still dream of going into space.
4. I can pick things up off the floor with my toes. I could even operate my old boom box with toes, inclduing flipping the tapes over.
5. I HATE daddy long legs. With the passion of a thousand burning suns. They die if I see them.
6. I didn't start drinking coffee on a regular basis until I went back to school 4 years ago. Before that, I drank tea. Lots & lots of tea.
So who do I tag? Hmmm...romandruid, heketatia, ceolnamara, silme, radiosilents (especially because I don't know her all that well yet), greatgreybeast (and at least one should involve a funny story with my little brother), and anyone else who wants to.
One caveat-- despite it saying "must" in the directions above, anyone tagged is free to not do this for whatever reason. I respect my friend's right to a free will. :-D
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Once you are tagged you MUST write an entry about 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next six people to be tagged and list their names.
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1. My earliest memory is of breaking my leg when I was about 2 1/2 years old. A bunch of us kids were jumping off a big metal box-like thing behind the row-homes we all lived in & the girl behind me thought I was taking too long so she pushed me. Broke both bones in the lower part of my right leg & had to have a cast the went over halfway up my thigh. All physical pain is judged by that experience. And apparently I was a holy terror with a cast,my Mom tells me.
2. My 3rd grade math teacher threatened to send me back to first grade because she looked in my workbook & discovered that I never did the exercises. She gave me a weekend to get them all done. I couldn't keep track of which ones the class had or hadn't done so I did the entire book. Then she got pissed that I'd worked so far ahead. "What are you going to do when we work on those pages in class?" I just shrugged but in my head, I thought, "What I always do- stare out the windows at the birds."
3. I had a *huge* interest in astronomy when I was a kid. While other girls wanted to be ballerinas, I wanted to be an astronaut. I used to know all of the constellations- I only remember a couple now. Still, I almost failed the astronomy section of my 3rd grade science class, which was taught by the same woman who taught math. My big project was on Pluto & two new major discoveries had been made aboout it- that it had a moon in an unusual orbit, & that it's own orbit wasn't the same as the other planets in our solar system & that it crossed paths with Uranus. In particular, it'd just passed over the crossing point & now Uranus was further out than Pluto. Despite the fact that I brought in a variety of books & articles on the event, including Astronomy magazine & Odyssey, which was the kid's version, that idiot woman refused to believe that it was true. I think both my parents & Sane Uncle, who was an amateur astronomer with a big telescope of his own, had to come in & have a talk with her. I still dream of going into space.
4. I can pick things up off the floor with my toes. I could even operate my old boom box with toes, inclduing flipping the tapes over.
5. I HATE daddy long legs. With the passion of a thousand burning suns. They die if I see them.
6. I didn't start drinking coffee on a regular basis until I went back to school 4 years ago. Before that, I drank tea. Lots & lots of tea.
So who do I tag? Hmmm...romandruid, heketatia, ceolnamara, silme, radiosilents (especially because I don't know her all that well yet), greatgreybeast (and at least one should involve a funny story with my little brother), and anyone else who wants to.
One caveat-- despite it saying "must" in the directions above, anyone tagged is free to not do this for whatever reason. I respect my friend's right to a free will. :-D