6 Wacky Facts Meme
Jun. 2nd, 2006 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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THE RULES: Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end you need to choose the 5 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs!
1. I did 3 years of a specialist astrophysics degree before I decided I'd had enough of hitting my head against a wall. (Third year quantum mechanics! Noooo!)
2. One of my student jobs was taking bets at the racetrack. To this day, any thought of gambling makes me hyperventilate.
3. When I went back to school for my teaching degree, I got drafted onto the University of Toronto's varsity fencing team. I was 30, and most of my opponents were 19. They had better endurance; I had more cunning. It all evened out in the end.
4. When I was 16, I talked my mom into letting me skip school to see a double bill of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rollerball.
5. Telling my sweetie about slash ended up being such a non-event, I don't even remember doing it. He thinks the conversation went like this:
Sweetie: So, what do you think about porn?
Me: It's great! Have I told you I write gay porn?
Sweetie: Cool.
6. I discovered fandom, finally, in grad school. That and the friends I made were definitely the best things about getting my M.A. The rest of it pretty much sucked.
I tag back:
Whoever wants to do it.
(Yes, that's a copout, but I'm so late on doing this that a lot of you have already done it.)
stormhellerTHE RULES: Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end you need to choose the 5 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs!
1. I did 3 years of a specialist astrophysics degree before I decided I'd had enough of hitting my head against a wall. (Third year quantum mechanics! Noooo!)
2. One of my student jobs was taking bets at the racetrack. To this day, any thought of gambling makes me hyperventilate.
3. When I went back to school for my teaching degree, I got drafted onto the University of Toronto's varsity fencing team. I was 30, and most of my opponents were 19. They had better endurance; I had more cunning. It all evened out in the end.
4. When I was 16, I talked my mom into letting me skip school to see a double bill of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rollerball.
5. Telling my sweetie about slash ended up being such a non-event, I don't even remember doing it. He thinks the conversation went like this:
Sweetie: So, what do you think about porn?
Me: It's great! Have I told you I write gay porn?
Sweetie: Cool.
6. I discovered fandom, finally, in grad school. That and the friends I made were definitely the best things about getting my M.A. The rest of it pretty much sucked.
I tag back:
Whoever wants to do it.
(Yes, that's a copout, but I'm so late on doing this that a lot of you have already done it.)
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Date: 2006-06-02 08:57 pm (UTC)Me: It's great! Have I told you I write gay porn?
Sweetie: Cool.
ROFLOL! But does he do field research for you?
I got drafted onto the University of Toronto's varsity fencing team.
Squee! Fencing is the only sport I ever enjoyed doing myself. Unfortunately, our resources were limited and the summer course I took was my only opportunity during my younger years. I suppose I should look into classes/groups around here, now that I'm older and can do what I want. :-)
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Date: 2006-06-02 10:10 pm (UTC)I'd actually still be fencing today if it hadn't done in my knees. They're the reason I never fenced varsity as an undergrad. I'd fence for a year, get to the point where I could barely walk and take a year off. When I arrived back on campus for the B.Ed., our maitre des armes pounced on me before I could say no. Not that I minded.