Ten Weird Things About Me

[selenite0]

joyeuse13 tagged me for 10 Weird Things about Me. The rules are:

Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. I'm so late replying to this that I don't remember who on my flist has and hasn't done this before. If you haven't, feel free to consider yourself tagged.
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At age thirteen I participated in a union protest march against Reagan. This was to protest firing the air traffic controllers. And I believed in the cause at the time. I was there with my mother's IAM local.

If I'm really tired during long distance driving I'll keep myself from nodding off by taking the numbers on the mile markers and factoring them (537 = 3 * 179).

I've been complimented for my calm temperment. It's not true. We were just at TRW, and nothing there was as annoying as when I was at Pioneer. As I told them, "There's no one here I want to kill."

I took a science fiction writing class from Joe Haldeman, which I'm sure did wonders for the quality of my fanfic.

A sarcastic retort I made to a customer is now a catch-phrase at Allstate Insurance. When giving a report of a stolen car the customer told me the color was "tungsten". My response: "Lady, we use the Crayola eight-pack here."

From a discussion at work, it apparently is weird for me as an engineer to remember my first kiss better than my first calculator.

My usual comfort reading books these days are historical romances by Georgette Heyer. Which isn't that weird, but they've taken the place of David Drake's Hammer's Slammers books and similar SF gorefests. Which is a weird switch.

My writing ability is amazingly fickle. The same number of words can come out in an afternoon or take more than a year to finish. There's one piece I've been kicking around for several years and still haven't gotten it half finished.

I once crawled out on a fifth floor ledge to hang up a ringing phone. Long story.

When I laugh really hard my face turns completely red. This used to make celticdragonfly think I was having a stroke, but now she's used to it.

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

"From a discussion at work, it apparently is weird for me as an engineer to remember my first kiss better than my first calculator." Maybe I should have been an engineer. Or maybe the calculator was MUCH better. OH well, I've improved both my kissing and calculating since then. ;-)

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I most certainly remember my first kiss, but I don't recall a thing about my first calculator. So chalk me up as another one who's weird for an engineer.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I have a vague memory of my first calculator. The other is detailed. :D

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

I remember my first[1] slide rule, my first computer, and my first two kisses (the first one was nearly 1 ms long). Don't remember my first calculator at all.

[1] I don't have it; I gave it away. I still have the 2d and 3rd slide rules and the first computer. I have a problem disposing of things.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

I remember not only my first kiss but my first French/English dictionary. *sigh*

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I remember my first Latin dictionary. Maggie found it recently and was bringing it to me, asking "Mama, would you read this to me?" Um. No.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Why not? She'd be perfectly happy with the phonetic version. :)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Fine. YOU read it to her.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a riot!

C'mon, read it to her...can't you just see a preschool homeschooling transcript w/ Latin listed on it? :D

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's possible that Latin may go into the program eventually. After all, One Sixteenth has Latin as a major part of her kids' curriculum. She's more following a classical program, whereas I'm leaning towards Charlotte Mason's style.

However, I do think we'll get her reading and writing English first, and we won't start with reading a dictionary. Using one, yes. Hm, isn't Winnie the Pooh available in Latin?

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Yes! Winnie ille Pooh!

You can get Asterix comics in Latin, too. :)

[magycmyste]

what is tungsten again? a type of tan? I like the Crayola response, though. ^_^

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Yep, some shade of brown or grey, I forget which now.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nymphette_/]

What the hell kinda color is Tungsten??

I hear you're in good hands with Jack Bauer Allstate.