Seven Random Things About Me meme

Deniselle at Fatly Yours tagged my other blog, www.the-f-word.org, in a Seven Random Things About Me meme so, I’m posting my answers here, instead, on my personal blog. I don’t do memes that often, but here’s my stab.

OK, so here are the rules of the game:
1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.

1. I have a rather odd fascination with Hubert Humphrey – you know, the former U.S. vice-president under Johnson, and democratic contender to Nixon’s 1968 presidential run. He only lost to Nixon by point-eight-percent of the popular vote. Yeah, I get a few strange looks. I had never heard of him until I did a self-study on the Vietnam War years ago, and I was intrigued. I spent one summer reading voraciously every book I could find on the man.

2. My supreme goal in life is to be a contestant on Jeopardy. No matter how much homework I have to do, how many books need read, papers that need written… I take half an hour each weekday to tune in and bemoan how I should be on the show. I’d probably do pretty horribly though. I was on Academic Team in both high school and college and I’m awful at giving on-the-spot answers.

3. My favorite singer is old enough to be my grandpa, looks a little like Santa Claus, and his surname sounds like a venereal disease. A good professor friend of mine (who’s the age of my parents) turned me on to Bruce Cockburn several years ago. I have more than half of his 28 albums, including his very first album, which is very hard to find. Words can never express how much this man and his music means to me. I’ve met him twice – at a concert in Louisville in 2003 and again last year after a concert in Lexington. Both times I appeared to be a drunken, bumbling idiot.

4. I once slept beneath a freeway in a homeless encampment in downtown Cincinnati. I wanted to learn about homelessness, up-close and personal. What better way to learn?

5. I have a book-buying obsession. Literally, I have thousands of books piling up and collecting dust in every corner of the house. I’ve always been a bookworm, and books are just my metaphorical security blanket, I guess. Brandon and I met online, where I had tried to make my profile sound as geeky as possible with things like “I own more books than shoes.” A couple months ago, I called Brandon from DSW Shoe Warehouse to tell him I’d be late coming home and he said that I hadn’t been completely honest in my profile; the only reason I have more books than shoes is because I have thousands of books. Oh, well. That just means I can buy more shoes!

6. I’m trying to grow a 500-pound pumpkin in my back yard.

7. I want to raise alpacas, not for profit, but as pets. I had never even heard of these cousins to the llama until I took a wrong turn while covering another story and drove past an alpaca farm. Since then, I’ve done several stories on alpaca farms in the area for the newspaper – one farm even sent me an alpaca wool purse as a thank-you gift. I tell my husband that our next house will have enough land for a few alpacas, some chickens, a goat or two, and maybe even a few horses. He just rolls his eyes.

Here are the folks whom I’m tagging: TechGirl’s Blog, Mo at Big Fat Deal, Pretty Pear, Charlynn at Disordered Times, Digging Me Up, Meowser, and Harriet Brown at Feed Me!.

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