June 26, 2007

• randomness

  I’ve been tagged: 7 Random Facts About SuSu
  
  Gitarezan tagged me to post seven random facts/habits about myself. So, here goes.

  1. I don’t do randomness very well at all.  If there is a decision to be made without sufficient data, I’ll flip a coin or use a more complex oracle.  Therefore, it is possible that someone might detect a pattern among these “random” facts.

  2.  Generally, I don’t say funny things.  I say things funny.

  3.  On our honeymoon, I don’t think Greyfox and I passed even one rock shop without stopping.  I remember three that were closed when we got there.  At one of them, we waited around outside until the owner came back from lunch.  At another, we got a motel room for the night and came back the next day.  The third one, in a mountain pass between Silver City and Alamogordo, New Mexico, was closed when we went by eastbound, so we stopped when we came back through a couple of days later.

  4.  My most treasured possessions are rocks.  Two of the best are a blue agate geode, tumble-polished on the outside and a total mystery on the inside, which I picked up in my rootless travels right after getting out of prison and carried in my backpack all the way to Alaska; and an ancient artifact, a corestone of agatized wood from which tools or weapon points had been flaked, given to me by a fourth grader at Bayard (NM) Elementary School, after Greyfox and I had done some show and tell on our rock collection for the class.

  5.  I love music… most of it.  I can’t stand to listen to Baroque music, nor to a lot of the punkish or metallic stuff my son likes, such as E Nomine and Worm Quartet.  It isn’t simply that I don’t like listening to it.  It affects me physically and mentally; I get tense and irritable.  It’s painful.   I enjoy singing but out of compassion I try not to do it when anyone else is around because I can’t carry a tune with a forklift.  (…and, yes, I can operate a forklift.)  I’m a drummer and a dancer.  Rhythm and percussion are my forte, not melody.

  Since each of those 5 numbered items includes at least two separate “facts”, I’m stopping right there.

  THE RULES:
  1. People who are tagged need to share seven random facts/habits about themselves on their own blog
  2. Include the rules.
  3. Choose seven people to tag, include their names, and leave them a comment and tell them they’ve been tagged.

  I am tagging:  Sue, Debi, James, Laurie, Kyle, Prissy, and Bill.  Participation is purely voluntary, and this list was the most random thing about this post (in case anyone on it resents the imposition, or someone not on it feels left out).
  

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