Things You May Not Know About Me

1. I can never remember the rules for putting 's on the end of words that already end in s. Anyone? Anyone?

2. There's almost always a song (or two or three) in my head. Weirdly, the song that pops in there when nothing else does is "R.E.S.C.U.E., Rescue Aid Society" from that old Disney movie "The Rescuers." This has been happening for years, although I haven't seen the movie since I was a kid.

3. I can't choose a favorite book, movie, band, or song. I don't know why this is... I'm certainly opinionated about everything else. I know what I don't like. Does that count?

4. I have received two thank you notes in the past week from crazy unexpected sources. They're both hanging up on my fridge.

5. I have dated many, many engineers of different kinds. If someone comes up to me and starts flirting, I can almost guarantee that he is an engineer. This happened yet again a couple of weeks ago.

6. I can usually remember and even sometimes control my dreams. When I was a kid, I would watch a good movie or read a book I liked then go to sleep and continue the story. I have also had several random dreams come true within a month or two of dreaming them. I've never shown any other signs of prescience, though. I also have serial dreams. For instance, one summer I had lots of dreams that I was a spy. It was an exciting summer.

7. One of my favorite days ever was going to the Cherry Blossom Festival and National Kite Flying Festival in Washington D.C. with some friends. We flew kites all around the Washington Monument (with thousands of other people) then spent the day doing other things I love... looking at flowers, visiting monuments, and posing for pictures with statues. Yes, I may be nerdy, but I embrace that.

8. I want to go skydiving someday. Until then, I just found this place in Denver that does indoor skydiving, where you put on the suit, step into this crazy wind tunnel, and "fly" a few feet above the ground. I think this would probably be a good first step, because I am also a big fat chicken.

9. One of my goals is to see both Stonehenge and Carhenge. I am halfway there.

10. One of my most revealingly favorite quotes is from "Pride and Prejudice," "What do we live for but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn"? This describes most of my favorite interactions with the world around me. I take delight in all sorts of oddities. In case you couldn't tell from this blog. I also have a reputation as an instigator. I tend to bring out the crazy in my friends, small children, and animals. I am not actually sure how this happens. But I'm really glad it does, because I find it infinitely amusing.