It's All About Meme, Meme, Meme: 80 things

Joshua Neff, that Goblin fellow, tagged me for the latest meme: Eighty Random Things about Me.  Strap yourselves in, kids, for this epic tell-all:

1. I like to make homemade valentines and feel crummy that I didn't make any this year.
2. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary in Wisconsin. Rock on!
3. I loathe polo shirts. I mean, if you want to wear one fine, but I'm pathological about having one on my person.
4. Favorite sports as a child: dodge ball and kick ball. Actually, those were my only sports as a child--the two things that did not make me cry in PE class.
5. I have rosacea and pray to the Goddess of Dermatology that I don't end up looking like WC Fields.
6. I have had an inordinate number of schizophrenic, bipolar and other mentally ill people in my life. I don't especially relate to normal or neurotypical.
7. I stopped watching serious films after being devastated by Sophie's Choice about 15 years ago. 
8. When I was in my early teens, I was pretty set on marrying Elton John. At present, only David Furnish and Mr. Raccoon stand in my way. Oh, and can anyone arrange a meeting with Reg?  We've not been properly introduced.
9. I miss the smell of curry-suffused saris.  There were lots of East Indian folks in Bloomington. And, boy, did they know the value of libraries.
10. Random celebrity birthdays that I remember: David Cassidy: April 12, Elton John: March 25; Salvador Dali: May 13; George Carlin, Howard K. Smith: May 12; Harry Truman: May 8. Ms. Mishler, my senior lit/drama teacher: April 17.
11. I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a kid. I was in at least three times, and my mom was in and out a lot.  As a result, I feel very at home in hospitals, and rather like them.
12. I love pork.
13. Ever since I was a kid, I've been pretty sure I could fly.  I just haven't figured it out yet.
14. I believe in magic (see above).  It's physically possible and someday people will figure out how to use the other 98% of their brain energy.
15. My favorite flowers are violets, lily of the valley and lilac which all bloom around my birthday.

1. I'm not very good at mailing things. I never have stamps when I need them and it takes me forever to wrap and send packages. (David Rothman--I have not forgotten about the REB 1200 or Cybook.  I think I may have to deliver it in person when I come to DC).
2. I love weeding--in the garden or the library.
3. Garth Nix and Christopher Paolini have made me rethink the whole "I hate fantasy" thing. 
4. I would love to see a Garth Nix/Garth Brooks mash-up.
5. I really really thought I wanted a Plymouth Vibe or Toyota Matrix until I actually got to drive one a couple weeks ago. I realized that is essential for me to have a vehicle higher off the ground to keep me from being carsick. Doomed to minivans for the rest of my life.
6. I've never had much of a travel bug, but lately, because of my Aussie Twitter friends, I'm thinking that Australia would be a fine place to visit. 
7. I'd need a passport first.
8. I love my cats, but man, do I miss having a dog.
9. I have out-of-body experiences on occassion.  Unfortunately, they mostly occur when I am under huge amounts of stress.  Thankfully, I have not had many in recent years.
10. Sometimes, right before falling asleep I can hear my mom's or dad's voice say my name.  My dad died a long time ago, but my mom is still alive.
11. I've only ever dreamed in color.
12. I have no money saved for college for my girls.
13. Huge educational debt was (is) good enough for me.
14. Hoping that unknown birth father will appear out of nowhere and remedy #s 27 and 28 (with money left over for a kitchen remodel and fireplace repair). 
15. I've been reading Lirael by Garth Nix and have decided I'm Lirael: I'm a librarian, I don't know who my father is, my best friend as a teen was a dog, and I have magical powers.  (see 13 & 14).
16. You know that cliche about losing your virginity in the back seat of a car?  Been there, done that.
17. I was really disappointed when nothing happened for Y2K. 
18. Mr. Raccoon just told me he wants a big breakfast.  We have stuff to make a big breakfast--eggs, oatmeal, pancakes, potatoes--but I'm not up for cooking and he just doesn't have skills or interest in learning how to cook.  That means he is going out for breakfast.
19. As much as I love to cook, it's nice to be cooked for.  My friends Eric and Marcee make me very happy in the food department. 
20. Wait. I'm going to go out for breakfast too.
21. So is Claudia.
22. Sit tight for the other 43 Random Things About Me.
23. How about that. Olivia wants breakfast too.
24. Should I just make breakfast for everyone?
25. Hell no.
26. (continued at 5:56 pm, 25 May 2007)
27. Drinking Merlot out of a child's novelty monkey/tiki glass purchased at Target earlier today)
28. I have never lived in a house with a dishwasher.
29. Michael Golrick, my ALA Council mentor, recently relocated to Eau Claire, WI and he will be arriving shortly for a weekend visit. 
30. Above friend once showed up to ALA Council wearing a Boy Scout uniform.
31. I have cheerfully helped Boy Scouts at the library, but am not at all down with their no-homo stance.
32. I was a Brownie for about two months.
33. I threw the 5th grade spelling bee by purposefully mispelling "grammar" because I was terrified of having to spell in front of the entire school.
34. I am married to a former jazz musician/music teacher who is now a truck driver and political blog junkie.
35. My mom's middle name is Eunice.
36. Abraham Lincoln is my favorite dead-person crush.
37. I saw Adam Ant play before he was a big deal.  He did the gig with a cast on his leg.  INXS, who NO ONE had ever heard of, opened for him.
38. I am afraid of repeating one of these random 80 things.
39. I have a habit of doing armchair diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. 
40. I'm actually pretty good at it.
41. I am seriously looking forward to the DSM V.
42. It took me three months to figure out how my lint roller worked.  Really.
43. I studied with a Christian midwife for awhile.
44. If you go into labor, I think I can deliver your baby just fine.
45. I generally do not mind when library patrons propose marriage.
46. Michael Golrick just pulled up in his blue PT Cruiser.
47. That's another car I thought would be cool to own, but because it is low to the ground and has a "DustBuster" profile, it would only bring me endless nausea.
48. I am nothing but random.
49. I wish I had a math brain.
50. I just watched MG put up a tent in about 10 minutes.
51. It is now the next day, almost 1 am
52. I am watching Viva la Bam with Claudia. No idea why we're both still awake.
53. April Margera and Ryan Dunn are both my MySpace friends.
54. I <3 New Orleans.
55. I recently learned that my mom had to come pick me and my sister up after our baby sitter was picked up for shoplifting when I was 5.
56. This was the same babysitter who had a crazy, drug-addled drop-out son who lit a table, and his sock, on fire, in front of me and my sister.
57. I bet I'm one of the few librarians who can say her dad was arrested for brawling. Or who supported his family by poker and pool winnings when he was unemployed during the winter. 
58. This was the same dad who the church ladies loved because he could talk bread-baking, jelly-making and gardening with the best of 'em.
59. I read books or tabloids during my girls' various concerts. I mean, they're concerts. I can listen and read at the same time, right?
60. I have significant guilt over not feeling guilty about leaving my friends and family and taking my girls away from their home a year ago (even though we are all extremely happy and comfortable).
61. I wish I had the skills to be able to partner dance (square, ballroom, swing), but am afraid that I am pathologically resistent to being led, and lack the requisite motor skills.
62. Wonder if most librarians really do need an MLS.
63. The answer is no.  Hell, no! The question is: "If you won the lottery, would you still work?"
64. I am a founding member of ACT-UP, Cornbelt Chapter.  I think the chapter was in existence for a few years from 89-92.   The organizing meeting took place at the gallery where this exhibit eventually was hosted.
65. I really regret giving my inherited meat grinder to my friend Marcee.  Not that she hasn't made good use of it. I just sort of miss it, and buying a new one wouldn't be the same. My folks used to make relish (aka "chow chow") with it in late summer.
66. Tag, you're it. Yeah. You.

Comments

[Charla]

Re: 62

No, most librarians don't really need an MLS.

[k.r.]

I kind of hate the DSM,mostly because of the GID section. (Sorry to be all acronym-crazed, but I think you can figure out what I mean.)

[mdoneil]

I have pasted pictures of my friends and relatives in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Mostly Axis I folks, a few II, a couple of my friends and family have an axis IV thrown in for good measure. As for axis V, I'm going to give my motley group an 80ish ( no 100, a few 40s.)

Too bad they removed homosexuality after DSM II, I have plenty of friends and co-workers who I could have pasted there. I hope they are not upset about the removal :)

Don't hold your breath for DSM V I hear it is not coming out for three or four more years.

It worries me that I know this stuff. I think I'll go to bed.

[Laura]

Oh, I love the DSM too. My friend and I once diagnosed all the characters in Winnie the Pooh. I've been trying to enlighten my coworkers about how our health insurance sucks because it lacks mental health parity. Apparently none of the rest of them have ever had cause to realize this. That worries me somewhat, but they seem to put up with me.

[Kathryn Greenhill]

Oh, do come to Australia to play. We have nice hospitals here. And pork. Your birth father might live here. Elton John once married a woman here. Some of your twitter friends would love to catch up with you, and we know you won't do it via the postal service.

[joshua m. neff]

You know the meme was only for eight things, right? But this is a very impressive list!