Non Sequitur: Sixteen Things

I have been tagged by Mr. Kris Johnson of http://kjtoo.com to write sixteen random tidbits about myself. So here we go.

1.) I was in an adult production of "Godspell" on a military base in Atlanta when I was 8. I sang the song that started "On the willows there, we hung up our lyres..."

2.) I was in a terrible car accident when I was 16, and broke my nose so badly that I had to have plastic surgery to restore it to anything that looks like a nose. The surgery freaked me out so badly that I never went back under the knife to have it further corrected, which is why my nose looks like I've been beaten in a boxing match.

3.) I once bought a $200 down overcoat for $50 in the Empire State Building, thanks to the intervention of my then-soon-to-be-ex.

4.) I once spent an entire day riding rollercoasters at Six Flags Great America with the guy who did the Friday the 13th movies (Sean S. Cunningham) and my best friend.

5.) I ran a LARP for 40 kids at an expensive new age summer camp in upstate New York.

6.) I was part of the recruiting team instrumental in hiring a Vice Chairman for Ernst & Young.

7.) I love to make peanut butter sandwiches from toasted bread so that the peanut butter liquefies from the heat. If I can have this with freshly brewed, ice cold sweet tea, I am in heaven.

8.) I once used an Excel spreadsheet to plan my romantic life. Not any more, mind you!

9.) I have travelled through many of the American states. I've ridden horses in the Colorado mountains, seen the Grand Canyon from a helicopter, been propositioned in Las Vegas, had a fantastic hot tub in New Mexico, and I saw the King's house in Memphis.

10.) I walked in a protest march in Forsyth County, GA, back on January 24th, 1987 along with 20,000 other civil rights activists.

11.) Many of the dishes I can make that I love to eat have been taught to me by lovers of mine: biscuits and baked ziti, for example. And yet, before 1986, I had no idea how to cook anything, even boiling water was a mystery to me.

12.) Among my Facebook friends are friends I've known since I was in kindergarten, including more than one childhood sweetheart.

13.) I have been growing beards since I was 17 and in a production of "Man of La Mancha" in high school. We had to grow out our beards because we were all supposed to be prisoners. I played "the Governor" or "the Innkeeper," and my solo song was "Hail, Knight of the Woeful Countenance"

14.) I am totally mesmerized by redheads, especially redhead women - but my life partner Cynthia is a brunette, and I actually prefer her that way.

15.) I once put a three year old to sleep by reading aloud the environmental hazard rules in the 3rd edition D&D Dungeon Master's Guide. In fact, I am known in my family as the baby whisperer, because I can make just about any baby go to sleep safely and peacefully.

16.) I am hell on earbuds. Despite trying to be careful, I always end up catching them in car doors or something, even though I've bought doodads to help me keep the cords tight. So I go through about one pair every two to three weeks. It's ridiculous. One day, I hope to have a bluetooth transceiver so I don't get my cords tangled in everything.

Sixteen people to tag? OK. Technomom, Katie, Hope Evey, Waya, Redcub, James, Amazon Blonde, Bill, Cunning Minx, Debbie, Eddy Webb, J.R. Blackwell, Natalie, Ebony Pearl, Rikibeth, and Wendi

Please don't feel any obligation to do so: this is all in good fun.

categories Random | SambearPoet | datetime January 18, 2009 12:23 am

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