It’s been a while since I’ve been tagged by a meme, but I am honoured to be tagged by Izzy Neis, who runs a great blog that helps me stay on top of what’s happening with kids and tech. In keeping with my 08 resolution to blog more, I’m going to give it a try.
Here’s the rules rules: Link to your tagger and post these rules. 2. List EIGHT random facts about yourself. 3. Tag EIGHT people at the end of your post and list their names. 4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.
One: When I was four, I was bitten by a dog and have been kinda skittish around them ever since (this despite writing a series of picture books about dogs and cats.)
Two: I made my living as juggler here when I was a teenager.
Three: In my early 20s, I fell face first from a three and a half story roof, hit a power line on the way down, which spun me onto my back. I broke free of the power line about 5 feet from the ground (saving myself from electrocution) and landed on my back, taking the full force of the impact on my right arm. It was smushed. I should have died. But I didn’t. Two surgeries and a year and half of physical therapy later, I could move my right arm. It still aches when it rains. Considering what could have happened, I don’t complain about the aches.
Four: I created the Grill Cheese Sandwiches group in Orkut in 2004. It now boasts over 1100 members. Ah, Orkut . . .
Five: My name spelled backwards is mail. I always got a kick out of that when I was a kid.
Six: My first story for children is called Uncle Tim’s Box of Dancing Lights. It was (thankfully) rejected by several publishers and it will remain in my desk drawer where it belongs.
Seven: In 1998, I taught myself Flash and wrote, animated and programmed an interactive choose-your-own adventure called the Myth Mappers. The story was good, the animation awful and the Flash programming rudimentary at best. It lives on a CD in a drawer in my desk. I might put it onto this website someday in the future, but I’m not promising anything.
Eight: When I was twelve, Dungeons and Dragons changed my life. ‘Nuff said on that.
So, there you have it. In honour of our fallen mathematicians out there, I’ll divide the meme by 2 and pass onto: Patricia (who hates memes, I know), Melanie (who has no time for yet another meme), Tony (whose sardonic gaze will send this meme scurrying into the underbelly of the interweb), and Anita (who has probably already been tagged with this one, so it should make it easy for her.)
Ha ha.
Okay, ha ha, except for the falling off the roof thing. That’s not funny. As soon as I posted, I got worried the first “ha ha” might come across as mean. I just meant that I enjoyed reading this… Oh, you understand.
lol – not to worry emily, i knew you wouldn’t laugh at pain. Laughing at my D&D geekiness is totally acceptable and a burden I have accepted willingly. I mean, who could resist the lure of a twenty-sided dice?
By the way, Storybook Gardens was like my favourite place to go when I was a kid. I found a dead mole there once. It was so tiny and cute. It had drowned in the little river just outside.
Emily – that is so sad. Poor little mole. That must have made your visit to the ol’ SBG a real day of fun.