'stina isn't that strange

[texaslawchick]

Mark and Lelia over at myspace marked me to do this. I don't blog over there, so I'll do it here.

The first player of this game starts with the "6 weird/things/habits about yourself." People who get tagged will have to post a blog telling their 6 weird/things habits as well. Make sure to post this rule clearly! At the end of your 6 weird/things/habits, you need to choose 6 people that you would like to be tagged and write their names down.

1. When I entered college, I thought I wanted to be an archeologist. What I really wanted to do was be a treasure hunter. I wanted to go around the world and find cool stuff and bring it back here and sell it. There was a store in San Francisco called Xanadu that sold stuff acquired from far off exotic places, and I'd spent about three hours going through it when I was 15. My intro to social anthropology class killed that desire, though. I didn't know until years later that the store had the same impact on one of my sisters. She did study anthropology, and her area of concentration was the intersection between culture and commerce. She turned that into a pretty cool career marketing art.
   
   
2. I wish I had taken the Human Sexuality class in the anthropolgy department when I was in college instead of Intro, because I probably would have tried to figure out a way to stay studying that field of anthropology. I read a lot on my own about sex workers, sex practices, and human sexuality. I find the subject fascinating, and I think I'd probably be a good sex researcher.
   
   
3. I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life. I find some of what I do fascinating, and some of what I do boring as hell. I get excited about my job sometimes. I hate it at others. I suppose this isn't particularly weird or unusual, but I generally have a feeling of restlessness whenever I think of the possibility that I may never do anything else. I will have been with this employer for five years in April. That sort of scares me.
   
   
4. I have done a terrible job of keeping up with anyone I have ever gone to school with or worked with. I do not keep regular contact with anyone I went to high school, college, Oxford, law school or the School of Public Health with. I do not keep regular contact with anyone I have ever worked with that went on to do other things.
   
   
5. I think, if I ever got off my ass and did it, I'd be a fairly good writer and I could make a living off of what I put down on paper. I just don't have the discipline to make myself sit down and write every day. I have all sorts of ideas floating around in my head, but I have no real way of getting them down on paper. I am extremely jealous of the increasingly large number of people I know who are getting published.
   
   
6. I have lost somewhere in the range of 45 to 50 pounds in the last six months. I exercise insanely, and I have reduced my calorie intake significantly. I sometimes don't recognize myself in the mirror, and I always grab stuff that's too big for me now.

I don't like tagging people, so if you feel the need, grab this meme and move on with it.