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Postponing the inevitable, seven facts at a time. | January 05, 2009
What’s that shiny glove-like thing at my feet? Why, it appears to be a gauntlet hurled in my direction by the esteemed Mr. Ethan Marcotte. Just because tomorrow is Macworld doesn’t mean I’m not checking my RSS feeds, mister. (Does this mean you broke rule #4?)
Now I shall thrill you with seven facts about me. Here are the rules for thrilling others in turn:
• Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged.
In the spirit of laziness, I’m going to match my facts to Mr. Marcotte’s:
1. I am a grad school dropout. Washington State University. Would have had my Master’s in English Literature (pronounced: “lit-rit-shuh”) in 1997. Instead, I dropped out and got a low-paying job copyediting a dirt bike magazine. Huh huh huh. “Supermotard.” Huh huh huh.
2. I sang a lot in high school and college. In the former, I sang alto and was always cast as the town whore in the school musical. In the latter, I sang first soprano and nearly had a heart attack singing a solo in the Carmina Burana whilst under the influence of five cups of very strong coffee.
3. I once broke my foot playing paintball. I jumped into a foxhole and landed wrong. (That’s what she said.)
4. In ninth grade, I wrote half an epic poem about The Smiths. It fizzled out after 30 pages. But what pages they were…
5. I was my high school band drum major. I spent 10 minutes of every Friday night leading 100 similarly unathletic kids in an attempt to distract you from getting a sloppy joe at the concession stand at halftime. You know who you are.
6. I have seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer no fewer than 10 times. It’s no Paradise Lost, but it’s not entirely dissimilar.
7. I once co-choreographed and performed a large-scale lip sync and dance number to TMBG’s Fingertips.
People about whom I would like to know more facts:
Ryan Sims (bonus if he can do it entirely with song lyrics)
Wilson Miner
Laura Brunow Miner
Mark Trammell
Julie Melton
Lawrence Yang
Matt Rubin