Tom & Alissa

Finally getting around to the meme that SuperFastReader aka Annie-from-church tagged me for.

The rules:

1: Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2: People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3: At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
4: Don’t forget to leave them a comment and tell them they’re tagged, and to read your blog (I won’t do this because I’m pretty sure the people I tag read my blog regularly :D - clearly, I’m that vain).

Eight random facts you probably don’t know about me if you’ve mainly read my blog:

1. I play five instruments (piano, flute, violin, organ, and I’ll count cello and guitar each as a “half” as I’ve never taken lessons on either); if you count recorder as an instrument, then six. I was very nearly a music major; piano is my first love, and I played in a handful of juried competitions as a high schooler.

2. When I was 14, my family moved to the country - we’re talking about as rural as you can get and still be in driving distance from Albany. I had a dozen laying hens (and two roosters, but that was a mistake). I didn’t like the country.

3. I was homeschooled for sixth grade through high school graduation, and in the meantime skipped the eighth grade.

4. I was originally accepted to RPI as an arts major, with arts scholarships, but chickened out at the last minute and switched to information technology.

5. I still haven’t seen Titanic.

6. When I was a little kid, I was squeamish about touching pictures in books that freaked me out; giant bugs with ugly eyes, gooey gross things, etc. But I liked to play with worms.

7. For a very long time, all my hobbies had to do with the “womanly arts” - and as a result, I’m a fairly accomplished sewer/knitter/crocheter/embroiderer. I don’t do much of any of those any more, but I do like to knit. Though not in the summer.

8. My very first chapter book series was the Little House on the Prairie books, followed by all of Beverly Cleary’s books. I have odd gaps in my reading that I’m trying to fill (I’ve never read Lord of the Flies, and I was 21 before I read Catcher in the Rye and I really didn’t like it at all), but I become more and more hopelessly in love with the literary fiction of today and who knows if I’ll ever catch up.

And I tag:
Laura, Tracy, Amanda, Alisa, Josh, Katherine, Tala, and Dwight. Just kidding. But wouldn’t you like to read that one?