The Quirky Facts Meme

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ancastar tagged me on this one. So what the heck...

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."



1. I worked my way through university taking bets at a racetrack at night. During the day, I was a bank teller. This got especially surreal when someone would take a ton of money out of their account at the bank, and I'd see them at the track that night.

2. I have a blue belt in Hap Ki Do. (That's two from black, FYI.) I only stopped training when a) my knees got dodgy and b) my orthopedic guy pointed out that with my crazy back, if I ever fell badly, I would probably end up paralyzed.

3. I love basketball. I used to play it constantly. (I was pretty good for someone who topped out at five foot nothin'.) And I was a huge Celtics fan back in the heyday of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parrish. My favourite Christmas present this year was the joint bio Bird wrote with Magic Johnson about their rivalry in the NBA. Also, I get a little frisson of pleasure when I'm watching Glee and see Kevin McHale's name in the credits, which is followed immediately by the disappointment of realizing it's not that Kevin McHale.

4. I love chocolate, the darker and more bitter, the better. And yet for medical reasons, I cannot eat chocolate of any sort. (I cheated for years, but since it leaves me in serious pain for days, if not weeks, I decided it was not worth it.) I've learned to deal with it, but this makes me sad.

5. The first show I ever got fannish about, before I ever knew about fandom, was Star Trek. When I was about eight, I even tried to convince my piano teacher to change the time for my lessons because it overlapped when Star Trek reruns were on. My teacher was game, but for my mom this was Not On.

6. The first actual fandom, with actual fanfic, I ever got into was Blake's 7. I'd just moved to Wisconsin to do my M.A., and the local PBS station was showing this crazy, dark, British SF show I'd never heard of. I was hooked. And then another grad student pointed me in the direction of B7 fanfic and it was game over. (Avon/Vila Forevah!)

7. I've developed an allergy to beer and a sensitivity to wine, which means the only alcohol left to me is Scotch. Since I drink it so seldom, I only drink the really good stuff; nothing less than 16 years old. (Macallan and Scapa, yum!)

As for tagging people, how about agentxpndble, just_ann_now, gilda_elise, sc_fossil, zebra363, silver_cyanne and sooguy, if you haven't done it already.

Comments

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

My favourite Christmas present this year was the joint bio Bird wrote with Magic Johnson about their rivalry in the NBA
I've never been the fan you are, but I would like to read that. I remember those days!

I had no idea you started with Blake's 7. Cool.

I'm sorry about the chocolate! As someone who had to give up all dairy for quite awhile, or be sick, well...I understand how pain makes the choice a non-choice. *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Darn about the chocolate. I love it dark and bitter. I like my men dark and sweet. LOL!

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Yay for Avon/Vila - my OTP in that fandom.

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you for playing. I didn't know you could only drink Scotch. If you ever come visit me, I shall have to make certain I have that stocked. ;-)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

No chocolate, beer or wine? Egads woman! *claps imperious hands* Bring on the cabana boys! Erm... *sniggers*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

1. I worked my way through university taking bets at a racetrack at night. During the day, I was a bank teller. This got especially surreal when someone would take a ton of money out of their account at the bank, and I'd see them at the track that night.

Now, that is interesting! Talk about yin and yang.

Bummer about the chocolate.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I've done this one! (http://zebra363.livejournal.com/58079.html)

I feel bad for you about the chocolate thing!

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Don't know if this helps you any, but chocolate is basically composed of three main ingredients:
1. Cocoa, which contains an addictive, foul-tasting poisonous drug called theobromine. It's this addictive drug which makes you want to go on eating chocolate even after you are sick of the taste.
2. Refined sugar to cover up the foul taste.
3. Milk intended for calves to make it look pleasant.
(from Allen Carr's Easyweigh to Lose Weight)
I just remind myself of that every time I see the stuff.

Trek! And B7! I was all A/V until I read Pat Jacquerie's "Duty". That story hurt in all the right ways and made me see the A/T light. *g*